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News Release

For Immediate Release

For information contact:

Marla Moran

941.487.2300 ext. 2318

marla.moran@cooperindustries.com

Cooper Notification Releases RSAN 6.0 for Most Comprehensive Emergency Notification

Enhanced Voice Dialing and Social Networking Site Integration

 Kansas City, Kan., November 18, 2008 – Cooper Notification, a platform of Cooper Industries, Ltd., (NYSE:CBE) announced today the latest release of the patented Roam Secure Alert Network^TM (RSAN^TM) emergency text and voice alerting system.  With the most comprehensive notification capabilities in the industry, RSAN 6.0 adds enhanced voice dialing capability, integration with social networking sites and improved GIS mapping functionality through Microsoft Virtual Earth version 6.2.  The launch was held today at the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) Emergency Management and Homeland Security Expo (EMEX) in Kansas City, Kan.

 “Our new voice notification suite leads the industry in speed, reliability and calling capacity,” said Ratna Reddi, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Cooper Notification. “RSAN 6.0 enables emergency officials to distribute voice messages over landline, wireless, and VoIP phones to tens of thousands of recipients within minutes.”

For the special needs community, RSAN 6.0 features emergency message delivery via Telecommunications Device for the Deaf/Teletypewriter (TDD/TTY) without pre-registration or administrative configuration.  RSAN 6.0’s other voice capabilities include the ability to target specific geographic areas through the integrated GIS-mapping module, track user responses, record and send audio files directly from a computer workstation, initiate alerts from any telephony device, and call or message any cell or landline phone number in the world.

The latest release of RSAN is integrated with social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter. This allows RSAN customers to automatically post emergency notifications to social networking sites that many Cooper Notification client constituents actively use.

“Students rely heavily on social networks for their information,” said Reddi. “Integrating with these sites offers a significant advantage for RSAN clients as they will see their enrollment grow and information spread through even greater breadth of alert delivery channels.”

RSAN is also integrated with Cooper Notification’s indoor and outdoor mass notification solutions, including WAVES outdoor High Power Speaker Arrays, which broadcast emergency messages over wide areas, SAFEPATH^TM indoor voice evacuation system, and Wheelock and MEDC branded fire and security devices. The Cooper Notification mass notification platform provides customers an integrated, multi-layered approach with indoor, outdoor, text, and voice notification, all developed from a single company and designed to work seamlessly together.

Cooper Notification has deployed more than 230 RSAN systems across the United States, including major metropolitan areas in and around Washington, DC, Orlando, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Houston, and San Francisco as well as state and federal agencies, colleges, airports, and hospitals. These systems play an important role in emergency alerting and information sharing among government leadership, first responders, critical infrastructure providers, businesses and citizens. 

About Cooper Notification

Cooper Notification, a solution platform of The Cooper Safety Division, is comprised of several businesses with decades of experience and innovation in the development of high quality products and solutions.  With the ever present need to protect, alert and inform, Cooper Notification is focused on meeting the growing demand for personnel and property safety. We are the source for notification solutions supporting Fire, Security, Hazardous area, Mass Notification, Voice evacuation and Industrial Signaling applications and operating under the powerful global brands of Fulleon, MEDC, Roam Secure, SAFEPATH, WAVES and Wheelock.  For more information, visit the web site at www.coopernotification.com.

About Cooper Industries

Cooper Industries, Ltd. (NYSE: CBE) is a global manufacturer with 2007 revenues of $5.9 billion, approximately 87% of which are from electrical products.  Founded in 1833, Cooper's sustained level of success is attributable to a constant focus on innovation, evolving business practices while maintaining the highest ethical standards, and meeting customer needs.  The Company has eight operating divisions with leading market share positions and world-class products and brands including: Bussmann electrical and electronic fuses; Crouse-Hinds and CEAG explosion-proof electrical equipment; Halo and Metalux lighting fixtures; and Kyle and McGraw-Edison power systems products.  With this broad range of products, Cooper is uniquely positioned for several long-term growth trends including the global infrastructure build-out, the need to improve the reliability and productivity of the electric grid, the demand for higher energy-efficient products and the need for improved electrical safety.  In 2007, sixty percent of total sales were to customers in the industrial and utility end-markets and 34% of total sales were to customers outside the United States.  Cooper, which has more than 31,500 employees and manufacturing facilities in 23 countries as of 2007, is incorporated in Bermuda with administrative headquarters in Houston, TX.  For more information, visit the web site at www.cooperindustries.com.

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