AXS Bolivia Chooses Narus -- Total Network View for a Competitive Advantage; Leading Central South American Carrier Selects Narus for Traffic Anomaly Detection, Billing Mediation and Lawful Intercept Applications.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- AXS Bolivia, the premier integrated communications provider in Central South America, today announced that it selected Narus, Inc., the world's leading Carrier-Class IP Platform software provider, to deliver four Narus IP Platform-based applications: Traffic Anomaly Detection, Billing Mediation, NarusLI (Lawful Intercept), and NarusView. These applications will enable AXS Bolivia to control network traffic, detect anomalies and manage billing in real-time within a highly competitive telecommunications market.

"We chose Narus for this very important investment in the future of our network because they have the applications and the visual tools to help us better understand our network traffic," said Fred Rucker, General Manager of AXS Bolivia. "Narus has a sophisticated and highly scaleable IP Platform with multiple network traffic applications that our market demands. Through the combined applications, we can safeguard against potential threats, improve our billing processes and scale for growth in a very dynamic marketplace.

The Narus Carrier-Class IP Platform offers a "Total Network View" through the real-time collection and analysis of one packet, billions of packets, or any range in between across multiple networks. With the Narus IP Platform's ability to concurrently run multiple applications, carriers such as AXS Bolivia can simultaneously protect against fraud and other threats such as worms, DDoS and SPAM while guarding and managing revenue as well as increasing the quality of service.

"The IP market in the region is exploding, and we are pleased to have been chosen by AXS Bolivia to be their provider," said Greg Oslan, president and CEO of Narus. "We applaud their leadership in this area of the world and look forward to working with them on this project and others in the future."

The applications purchased are as follows:

--Narus Traffic Anomaly Detection - detects traffic anomalies across multiple networks in real-time to help reduce losses in revenue, network down-time and disruption in services.

--Narus IP Mediation for Billing - provides prepaid and postpaid billing configurations for revenue assurance at the highest volumes and speeds.

--NarusLI - features a warrant management system, subject targeting and delivery to global LEA (Law Enforcement Authorities) standards.

--NarusView - enables real-time visualization of network traffic to IT and Network Managers for traffic analysis and performance management.

Narus provides a Carrier-Class IP Platform for the largest, most profitable networks in the world. The Narus IP Platform offers a "Total Network View" through the real-time collection and analysis of one packet to billions of packets across multiple networks at up to OC192 rates. The Narus IP Platform is used by Tier-1 carriers to enable IP applications such as, security, traffic and customer analysis, IP monitoring and billing. Narus is privately held and fully funded, backed by JP Morgan Partners, Mayfield, NeoCarta, Intel, Presidio Venture Partners, Sumisho Electronics and Walden Ventures. For more information, please visit www.narus.com.