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Narus Announces Dr. Antonio Nucci as Chief Technology Officer
Telecommunications and Internet Technologies Visionary to Lead Narus’ Advanced Research
Mountain View, Calif., May 31, 2005-Narus, Inc., the leading carrier-class IP platform software provider, announced today that Dr. Antonio Nucci has joined the company as their chief technology officer. Dr. Nucci is an internationally recognized expert in Internet traffic modeling and analytics of global telecommunications networks. He is renowned for having played a key role in designing and deploying the required backbone for supporting new-generation, high-bandwidth applications. He will lead Narus’ advanced research team in the development of the next generation of unified IP management and security solutions.
Dr. Nucci’s distinguished career accomplishments include groundbreaking research in areas such as Passive and Active Measurements, Traffic Matrix Estimation, Anomaly Detection, Statistical Modeling and Wireless Traffic Characterization. His expertise extends over several areas, being not only very active with Internet protocols, but also a highly acclaimed researcher in optical (WDM) networking and in mobile, wireless networks.
He conducted most of his recent experiments as a research scientist and principal member of Sprint’s technical staff at Sprint Advanced Technology Labs. The success of his research led to the development of industry-adopted software tools and multiple patents in the areas of Network Design and Modeling, Internet Traffic Analysis and Characterization, and Routing Protocol Analysis and Optimization. He has authored more than 30 technical papers for international conferences and peer-reviewed journals and served on program committees for top venue networking conferences.
“For telecommunications providers, the ability to continuously monitor network activity is a necessity in preventing service disruption and understanding which applications and services are delivering value to their customers,” said Dr. Nucci. “Narus brings information from devices and the network together in a single view, enabling carriers to prevent future attacks and identify key trends. I look forward to working with Narus and its development team to deliver new innovations to the world’s leading operators.”
“Global carriers rely on us for delivering secure, cost-effective products to help them analyze and protect their networks, and increase revenue,” said Greg Oslan, president and CEO, Narus. “We are pleased to have Dr. Nucci as part of our executive team. His reputation and innovations in Internet technologies will enable us to accelerate our ability to deliver revolutionary products that capture, analyze, aggregate and abstract data to create, manage and protect carriers’ revenue.”
Dr. Nucci received the Dr. Ing (B.S. and M.S.) and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, one of Italy’s premier technology institutes. He was elected a senior member of the IEEE for his contributions in the area of modeling and analysis of network performance.
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About Narus, Inc.
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, Korea Telecom, KDDI, Telecom Egypt, Saudi Telecom, France Telecom and T-Mobile in areas of network security, traffic classification and monitoring.
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