Clarus Systems is Showstopper at CIPTUG 2007 Annual Conference with Executives Leading Six Industry Discussions

Business Wire, Oct 30, 2007

Company also Announces ClarusIPC 2.3.1 with New Voice Monitor Add-on Module

AUSTIN, Texas -- Clarus Systems, Inc., a leading provider of integrated management and testing solutions for IP Communication deployments, upgrades and transformations, today announced that four members of its team and two customers will present in six discussions, including one break-out session, at the CIPTUG (Cisco IP Telecommunications User Group) 2007 Annual Conference. The latest version of ClarusIPC([R])Plus , which will also be demonstrated at the conference, now includes a Voice Monitor module to help users monitor voice quality, service availability, and security conditions through the use of a sophisticated rules and policy engine.

CIPTUG is the official organization for anyone using Cisco IP telecommunications products. The CIPTUG 2007 Annual Conference provides a forum where the global IP telecommunications community can share their experiences, insights, concerns and solutions.

Clarus Systems CTO Richard Whitehead will present a joint session with John Marchese, Vice President of Sales Engineering, BlueWater Communications Group (systems integrator [SI] and Clarus Systems customer) titled Beyond the Pilot: Strategies for Maintaining the IPT Commitment PHS-32-BP, Intermediate . In this session, attendees will learn best practices and strategies for global implementations to realize the efficiencies of executing a pure IP network. Mr. Whitehead, other Clarus Systems executives and domain experts, and Clarus partner IQ Services will also lead discussions during the CIPTUG Lunch Roundtables at the conference on Wednesday, October 31 from 12:00 noon - 1:15 pm. Topics include:

* Super Clusters - Effectively Managing Complex Networks -- Richard Whitehead, CTO of Clarus Systems

* Critical Building Blocks to UC -- Gurmeet Lamba, VP of Engineering, Clarus Systems

* IVR Integration -- Jim Jenkins, CEO of IQ Services

* Business Solutions vs. Technology Solutions -- John McCaffrey, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Clarus Systems

* Configuration Management - Ways to Standardize and Simplify the Management of your IPT Environment - David Roberts, Product Manager, Clarus Systems

"With four of our domain experts and two of our customers/partners presenting, we are making a bold statement here at CIPTUG that our ClarusIPC solution truly empowers unified communications and seamlessly supports Cisco Unified Communications Manager version 6," said Brendan F. Reidy, President and CEO of Clarus Systems, Inc. "Over the past few months, we have gained significant customer and product momentum based on our alliances with leading systems integrators including VITAL Network Services, BlueWater Communications Group and partner IQ Services. We have also expanded the feature set of our solutions beyond testing to include Voice Monitor and Help Desk functionality in our elite ClarusIPC Plus( ) package. Additionally, several financial services customers have been beta testing the new Voice Monitor."

This past June, Clarus Systems and VITAL Network Services - an independent, multi-vendor provider of network lifecycle services - forged an alliance in response to demands for certification solutions to test and verify proper functionality of Cisco IP Communications deployments. One month later, Clarus aligned with BlueWater Communications Group - a high-performance organization focused on providing holistic, cohesive Unified Communications and infrastructure services to growing companies - to allow BlueWater to provide certification solutions that test and verify proper functionality of Cisco IP Communications deployments direct to clients. BlueWater Communications Group has been reselling ClarusIPC to their enterprise customers for use in managing in-service IP telephony systems. Most recently, an alliance with IQ Services takes Clarus' integrated management and testing solutions to the contact center.

"We have been impressed with the performance of the new Voice Monitor based upon our recent beta testing," said John Koehler, President and CEO of VITAL Network Services. "Clarus Systems has trained our technicians on the capabilities of this new module and we believe Voice Monitor will deliver additional value to our Day 2 customers by providing timely alerts on voice quality."

The new ClarusIPC Plus( ) includes a Voice Monitor module to help users monitor voice quality, service availability, and security conditions through the use of a sophisticated rules and policy engine. It also includes a Help Desk module. The standard ClarusIPC application is utilized by enterprises, systems integrators and managed service providers (MSPs) to support the deployment and optimization of Cisco's Unified Communications Manager solution. ClarusIPC is scalable and offers remote certification, configuration analysis, and troubleshooting - further validating operational integrity while building the foundation for a Unified Communications network. ClarusIPC is the only testing solution endorsed by Cisco in the Best Practices guide, "Steps to Success."