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Narus Selected by Alwayson as Top 100 Private Company Award Winner
Carriers and Governments Worldwide Rely on Narus to Ensure Profitability and Drive Future Business
Mountain View, Calif.—June 28, 2005—Narus, Inc., the world’s leader in providing unified IP Management and Security, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the Top 100 Private Company award winners. Narus was handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on a set of five criteria — innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.
The AO 100 was selected from more than 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leadingventure capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts. The AO 100 consists of private companies at all stages of development, fromearly to late stage.
Narus is globally recognized for its IP Management and Security Platform, and its suite of cutting-edge products that provide traffic analysis and management, lawful intercept, and content-based billing to many of the largest carriers in the world. In the past year, Narus expanded into China, South America and the U.S. government markets, adding 10 major carriers including AT&T, KDDI, US Cellular, Korea Telecom and Egypt Telecom to its list of customers.
“The AO 100 companies are shaping today’s web-driven, connected environment,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “We were inundated with nominations from leading companies, many of which I hope will appear on our list next year. My congratulations to each AO 100 winner – these are the companies which we predict will have the greatest market traction, strongest innovation and most game-changing approaches this year.”
“We are honored to have been selected for this award, as it recognizes the innovation and accomplishments of the Narus team,” said Greg Oslan, CEO of Narus. “Installed in many of the most important global networks, Narus is helping to manage and protect the network health and business of leading carriers and governments around the world.”
The AO 100 will be honored at the AO2005: Innovation Summit at a VIP reception at 5 p.m. on July 19, 2005 at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif.
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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.
About AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn is transforming the communication business with its online blogging network, establishing it as a leader in the Open Media revolution. Borrowing from the underground traditions of blogging and social networking, AlwaysOn (http://www.alwayson-network.com/) was launched in 2003. Today, AO’s annual Summit @ Stanford and OnHollywood events, print “blogozine” and online services encourage direct collaboration between global thought leaders and technology insiders. No other media brand has dared allow such openness amongst its readers and participants.AlwaysOn, LLC, is a privately held and virtually headquartered company born out of the heart of Silicon Valley.
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