Narus Receives 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award

Business Wire, Oct 17, 2006

NarusInsight[TM] Honored for Delivering Exceptional VoIP/IP Telephony Solutions

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Narus, Inc. (www.narus.com) announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation's INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, a VoIP Authority since 1998, has named NarusInsight as a recipient of a 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award.

NarusInsight is the only carrier-class IP traffic processing system that provides the complete, real-time network visibility essential to secure, manage and deliver Services over IP such as VoIP, IPTV and PTT. As the foundation for the industry's most advanced IP security, intercept and traffic classification applications, NarusInsight is unique in its ability to simultaneously provide both deep traffic analysis (from OSI layer 2 to layer 7) and complete correlation across every link and element on the network. NarusInsight provides carriers with the flexibility and superior price performance benefits associated with securing and managing any IP service from a single, common platform.

"Narus has earned a tremendous reputation among the world's largest carriers and governments as the leader in scalable, carrier-class IP management and security solutions," said Steve Bannerman, vice president of marketing at Narus. "We're excited to accept this prestigious award as recognition of more than seven years of innovation and dedication to the carrier IP market."

"The editorial staff of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine is proud to announce the winners of the second annual INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Awards. These companies are as varied as the products that fit under the IP telephony umbrella, but they have all achieved delivering winning solutions for their customers' needs," indicated Rich Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

"The winners of the second annual INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award are leaders in VoIP. Taking risks to advance VoIP technology and provide real solutions has earned Narus recognition from the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY. NarusInsight has excelled in the VoIP/IP Telephony industry, and most importantly, its customers are willing to offer their testaments of support," said Greg Galitzine, Editorial Director of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs and Minacom. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has a circulation of 55,000.

The 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners will be published in the October 2006 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, www.itmag.com, or can be found directly online at http://www.tmcnet.com/awards/it-excellence-award-winners-2006.htm.> For more information, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

About Narus

Narus software solutions provide the real-time traffic insight essential to profitably manage, secure and deliver Services over IP. Today, large IP-based networks are transforming the traditional circuit-switched world of telecommunications into a dynamic, ever-changing world of IP-based services such as VoIP, IPTV and others. In order to secure, monitor, bill and provide excellent quality of service for these IP-based offerings, service providers must simultaneously capture, normalize and correlate IP traffic across all layers of the network. Only NarusInsight is capable of providing companies with the means to capture, normalize and correlate IP traffic at the speed required for carrier-class networks. With its patented technology and processes, Narus helps customers like at&t, KT, KDDI, Telecom Egypt, Saudi Telecom, Brasil Telecom, US Cellular and T-Mobile in areas of network security, traffic classification and monitoring. Narus delivers its solutions through its global partners such as IBM, VeriSign, NEC and Giza Systems. For more information, please visit www.narus.com. To read more about this award-winning technology, please visit http://www.infosecurityproductsguide.com/technology/Narus.html.> About TMC([R])

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 2,100 sites in the world by alexa.com(1), TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, VoIP Demo, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. ((1)alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)