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Narus Announces Murali Sitaram as Vice President of Engineering
New Appointment Strengthens Narus’ Leadership Team and Helps Drive Continued Innovation
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—March 14, 2006—Narus, Inc. today announced the appointment of Murali Sitaram as vice president of world wide engineering. Sitaram brings extensive global experience successfully evolving and delivering innovative technologies to Narus’ engineering teams in Mountain View, Calif. and Bangalore, India.
Sitaram joins Narus most recently from Aspect Communications, where he managed an extended team of engineers and was responsible for many of the company’s core product lines. During his tenure there, Sitaram was a key contributor in forming Aspect’s vision and strategy. One of his key contributions at Aspect was to architect the company’s offshore development strategy.
Prior to Aspect, Sitaram held positions including vice president of Research and Development for CRM at Avaya, and as senior vice president of engineering at Quintus Corporation. During his tenure at Avaya, Sitaram was responsible for all engineering and technology-related activities for the company’s CRM products and managed a team of nearly 500 engineers at various locations world wide. Under his leadership, the team surpassed their goals in product delivery and customer satisfaction.
“Murali is a first-rate leader with a proven track record of converting ideas into profitable business opportunities,” said Greg Oslan, CEO of Narus. “Murali will be a tremendous asset to Narus as we continue on our company’s dramatic growth path.”
“Joining Narus just as Services over IP achieves prominence in the telecommunications industry, is an incredible opportunity,” said Sitaram. “Narus brings unique vision to the IP marketplace with an unparalleled system that has demonstrated financial and technical benefits to their carrier and government customers. This role will allow me to contribute to an outstanding executive management team as we continue to push the limits of innovation.”
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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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