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Narus Appoints Leading Academics to Narus Research Fellows

Industry Luminaries to Collaborate With Narus in Development of Next-Generation Security Products

Mountain View, Calif., June 21, 2005—Narus, Inc., the world’s leader in providing Unified IP Management and Security Platforms, today announced an industry-leading corporate initiative to develop next-generation security products through the newly created Narus Research Fellows program. The group, which comprises academics and leading researchers from esteemed universities and companies in the United States and Europe, will collaborate on developing and testing security products to protect carriers from cyber-terrorism.

A real and constant threat, cyberterrorism wreaks havoc on the world’s carrier networks and computer systems. In fact, GartnerG2 estimates that 90 percent of attacks take advantage of known security flaws or problems. Narus is addressing the threat of increasingly advanced cyberattacks by leveraging the expertise of its Narus Research Fellows. Seven academics and researchers from Cambridge University, Rutgers University, University of Minnesota, University of Florida, and University of California at Davis and San Diego will co-develop next-generation products, further strengthening Narus’ leadership in the field of IP management and security.

“In cooperation with the Narus Advanced Technology Team, the Narus Research Fellows will jointly research, benchmark and deliver the most innovative and complete solutions to satisfy current and future security expectations. The combination of next-generation algorithms and Narus’ highly distributed scalable architectures and systems will protect wired and wireless carrier networks against even the most complex attacks,” said Antonio Nucci, chief technology officer of Narus, Inc. “With the collaborative expertise of some of the world’s most brilliant security scientists, Narus customers will know they have the most advanced security available on their networks.”

Members of the Narus Research Fellows include:

Marco Ajmone Marsan, professor, Electrical Department of Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy — Ajmone Marsan has been the Director of the Institute for Electronics, Information and Telecommunications Engineering of the National Research Council since September 2002. He has been the principal investigator in national and international research projects dealing with telecommunications networks and was awarded the grade of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Fellow. Ajmone Marsan’s current interests are in performance evaluation of communication networks and their protocols.
Dr. Chen-Nee Chuah, professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Davis — Chuah currently leads the Robust and Ubiquitous Networking (RUBINET) Research Group at UC Davis. Chuah received the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the College of Engineering at UC Davis in October 2004 and previously the NSF CAREER Award in 2003 for her research on robust, secure and stable routing. Chuah’s research area interests are in computer networking, distributed systems, wireless/mobile communications, multimedia, network/traffic monitoring and performance modeling.
Dr. Rene Cruz, professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego — Cruz received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991 and was awarded the grade of Fellow of the IEEE for developing a network calculus for characterization on traffic of packet networks. Cruz’s research area interests are in design and performance analysis of communication networks, with an emphasis on high-speed wireless and optical systems, scheduling, routing, and network calculus.
Dr. Muthu Muthukrishnan, professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Rutgers University — Muthukrishnan has published more than 100 papers and holds more than 10 patents. He has worked at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, Bell Labs and AT&T Research, where he built a location service for AT&T Wireless over the entire U.S. network. Muthukrishnan’s research area interests are in algorithms, databases and analyzing massive amounts (“streams”) of data.
Dr. Dapeng Oliver Wu, professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Florida — During his career, Wu served as TPC member of more than 20 conferences in networking, was an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and for the International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, and visited Fujitsu Laboratories of America in Sunnyvale, Calif., where he conducted research on architectures and traffic management algorithms in the Internet and wireless networks for multimedia applications. Wu’s research area interests are in networking, communications, multimedia, signal processing, and information and network security.
Dr. Zhi-Li Zhang, associate professor, Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota — During his career, Zhang received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1997, the prestigious McKnight Land-Grant Professorshipand the George Taylor Distinguished Research Awardat the University of Minnesota, and the Miller Visiting Professorship atMiller Institute for Basic Sciences, University of California,Berkeley. Zhang held visiting positions at Sprint Advanced Technology Labs, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Fujitsu Labs of America, Microsoft Research China, and at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control. Zhang’s research area interests are in computer communication and networks, especiallyQOS, routing and security issues in the Internet, multimedia and real-timesystems, and modeling and performance evaluation of computer andcommunication systems.
Dr. Gianluca Iannaccone, research scientist at Intel Research in Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K. (and will also serve as an observer of the Narus Research Fellows) — During his career, Iannaccone published several papers and served as TPC member of several conferences in networking. Before joining Intel Cambridge, Iannaccone was a research scientist at Sprint Advanced Technology Labs in Burlingame, Calif., where he worked in the IP Research group. Iannaccone’s research area interests are in network performance measurements, loss inference methods and survivability of IP networks.

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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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