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Press Release
KDDI Selects Narus for Third Phase of its Next Generation Mobile Data Network
Three-Year, Multi-Million Dollar Deal Expands Narus’ Reach in Japanese Market
Mountain View, Calif., March 14, 2005—Narus, Inc., the leading Carrier-Class IP Platform software provider, announced that it has been chosen by long-time customer KDDI for a three-year, multi-million dollar implementation of the third consecutive phase of KDDI’s mobile data mediation network. KDDI is the leading Japanese 3G operator.
Utilizing the Narus IP Platform for IP Mediation, KDDI is assured that every customer transaction on its network is accurately provided to their billing system. Revenue assurance is built into the system, a critical requirement in the Japanese cellular market. Besides using the information for billing, KDDI relies on the Narus provided data for determining user trends, enabling them to quickly react to customer and marketplace demand. KDDI continues to drive new customers, with a subscriber base of over 17 million 3G subscribers, adding customers faster than any of their competition.
KDDI has been using the Narus IP Mediation solution since 2001 when it first deployed its CDMA2000 network. KDDI is a leader in providing new value added services to their customers. With each new service implemented, Narus has been there for KDDI, assuring that usage can be billed with the highest level of revenue assurance.
According to Narus’ President and CEO, Greg Oslan, “It’s gratifying to have our customers return to us and share the successes they’ve achieved by deploying the Narus IP Platform. We will continue to push the envelope of innovation by developing scaleable solutions across disparate networks and geographies that help to provide real business value to customers like KDDI.”
About Narus, Inc.
Narus is the leader in real-time traffic intelligence for large IP networks, and is the only company that provides security, intercept and traffic management solutions within a single, flexible system. With Narus, service providers, governments and large enterprises around the world can immediately detect, analyze, mitigate and target any unwanted, unwarranted or malicious traffic. Narus provides its customers with complete, real-time insight into all of their IP traffic from the network to the applications. Combined with the ability to enable numerous actions, Narus customers have the ability to take the most appropriate actions quickly.
Narus’ system protects and manages the largest IP networks around the world including AT&T, KT (Korea), KDDI (Japan), Telecom Egypt, Reliance (India), Saudi Telecom, US Cellular and Pakistan Telecom Authority. Narus is headquartered in Mountain View, California with regional offices around the world. For more information, please visit www.narus.com.
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