Press Release

Narus Celebrates Best Year in Company’s History

Highlights Include 66 Percent Growth in Sales, 25 Percent Growth in Customers, 10 New Patents and Strong Partner Momentum  

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 8, 2008 — Narus, Inc. announced today that 2007 was the company’s most successful in its 10-year history. Aside from record revenue and sales, Narus delivered four technology and product releases, added numerous new customers and partners, launched a new offshore development center, and appointed five key executives. In fact, 2007 proved even more successful than forecasted, greatly underscoring Narus’ position as the leader in providing traffic intelligence for protecting and managing large IP networks.

The market for traffic intelligence has finally begun to solidify. Customers now appreciate the value of a system that integrates network traffic with the applications to protect, manage and drive revenue from their businesses. In the next three years, network-centric IP traffic intelligence systems for security, intercept and management will grow to over $1.3 billion, with a CAGR of 30 percent.

“Narus solutions provide visibility into all layers of the network traffic and can effectively scale to meet the requirements of a growing number of tier one operator customers,” said Brian Partridge, director of enabling techologies, Yankee Group. “The increasing requirment for overall IP network intelligence bodes well for vendors who can execute effectively in this space.”

Narus announced an impressive series of new technology innovations and products in 2007, all based on the NarusInsight™ traffic intelligence system:

  1. In February, Narus announced NarusInsight Secure Suite 6 (NSS 6), the industry's first carrier-class security system designed to leverage the scalability and management advantages of IBM BladeCenter (as well as space and power efficiency inherent to blades). NSS 6 offers service provider and government customers the ability to manage their system expansion seamlessly and cost effectively by simply adding incremental modules of blades.
  2. Narus announced the NSS wireless module in March. The wireless module is a mobile security product that detects and mitigates wireless-specific attacks from various devices and at different levels of the network architecture.
  3. Narus unveiled NSS 7 in November. NSS 7 highlights advanced mitigation options, including seamless integration with Cisco Guard™ DDoS mitigation appliances.
  4. In December, Narus announced the latest version of NarusInsight Intercept Suite (NIS), which includes the industry’s only network traffic intelligence system that supports real-time precision targeting, capturing and reconstruction of Webmail traffic.

A host of new customers and partners from around the world selected Narus in 2007 in an effort to secure their IP networks, comply with government regulations and save money. In September, Narus announced that Pakistan Telecommunications Authority selected Narus to detect rogue VoIP traffic flowing through the Pakistani telecommunications networks. By using Narus, Pakistan’s telecommunications networks expect to save millions of dollars a year. Narus also
formed key partnerships in Latin America, where IP traffic security and intercept concerns have increased substantially over the past several years.

Narus extended its global footprint further in June, when it announced the opening of a new office to support its development and regional headquarters. The office, located in Bangalore, is the central location for Narus’ India-based software development, sustaining engineering, quality assurance, customer support, regional sales and professional services teams. Thanks in part to the rapid increase in India’s telecommunications activity, Narus expects that it will see double-digit growth in traffic intelligence purchases, including intercept, gray VoIP and network security.

Rounding out Narus’ exemplary year was the appointment of key Narus executives. Narus welcomed Charles Picasso to its Board of Directors as non-executive Chairman. Daniel McEntee was appointed vice president of administration and CFO in February. Chuck Meyo was welcomed aboard in May as vice president of global channels and Americas sales. Christopher Swan became senior vice president of global sales alliances and marketing in July, and Yogi Mistry joined as senior vice president of worldwide engineering in November.

“Narus has experienced tremendous growth over the last year. Our growth continues to validate our traffic intelligence strategy. We remain confident in the importance of helping our customers protect and manage their large IP networks,” said Greg Oslan, president and CEO, Narus.


 

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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