Press Release

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

Always On

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.

 

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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