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Press Release
Narus Partners With Giza Systems To Provide Unified IP Management and Security Solution to Middle East
Multi-Million Dollar, Industry-First Agreement
Mountain View, Calif.—September 13, 2005—Narus, Inc. today announced a multi-million dollar agreement with Giza Systems of Egypt, licensing Narus’ comprehensive portfolio of IP management and security products in the Middle East region. Giza Systems, a world-class systems provider of telecommunications solutions in the Middle East, delivers IP management and security solutions in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Libya using the Narus system.
Narus and Giza Systems formalized this exclusive relationship after working together for more than two years providing Voice over IP (VoIP) detection, mediation and protection to the largest IP carriers in the Middle East. Telecom Egypt (TE) and Saudi Telecom (STC) are already benefiting from Narus’ carrier-class applications for analysis, security, monitoring and mediation of IP traffic in combination with Giza Systems’ technical and commercial capabilities.
“Strengthening our partnership with Narus emphasizes Giza Systems’ commitment to ensure the successful deployment of the most advanced IP network management systems for Egyptian and regional carriers,” said Mohamed Sedeek, Giza Systems Director of Engineering. “With their highly scalable IP Platform, Narus has proven its unique ability to meet the diverse needs of our customers. Together, we share a vision for protecting telecom providers’ networks and business. We look forward to future collaborations with Narus.”
“Collaborating with a recognized leader in deploying IP services gives Narus a clear advantage in meeting the needs of Middle Eastern carriers,” said James Mullins, Narus’ vice president of sales and services for EMEA. “Teaming up with Giza Systems to target the Middle East region enables Narus to extend its worldwide leadership position in unified IP Management and Security. It ensures that customers get both the solutions and support for their IP networks that they require.”
Narus unified IP Management and Security is deployed by some of the largest carriers and IP service providers in the world, including AT&T, KDDI, U.S. Cellular, Korea Telecom, T-Mobile and Telecom Egypt. Carriers rely on Narus’ solutions to provide them with real-time IP knowledge to create, manage and protect their services and revenue. With solutions for protecting critical infrastructure from attack, traffic analysis and management, lawful interception and content-based billing, Narus offers a full suite of IP applications all on a single platform. This approach provides a total network view of IP traffic, demonstrating unparalleled performance, while saving carriers tens of millions of dollars in capital and operational costs.
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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