MERA Networks

MERA Networks

Type	Private
Industry	Software R&D
Founded	1989
Headquarters	Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Key people	Dmitry Ponomarev, Mark Granik, Yuri Menkov, Igor Piruyan, Alexey Myakov, Grigory Burov
Employees	≈1200 (2009)[1]
Website	http://meranetworks.com

MERA Networks is an Eastern European company specialising in life cycle high value-added software R&D services. MERA's clientele includes world leading telecom/datacom equipment manufacturers and IT software solutions vendors: Ericsson, Networks In Motion , Nortel, SynapSense, Tieto. MERA Networks features a wide array of telecom expertise in converged/wireless/wireline/enterprise communications and actively expands the scope of its technological expertise into industrial automation and banking verticals. 1200 software engineers work at MERA. The company has 20 years of experience in the industry.

History

• 1989: A group of professors from State Nizhny Novgorod Technical University founds MERA as a private firm specialized in antenna research and development.
• 1990: MERA wins first contracts with foreign customers.
• 1993: MERA concludes a first software development contract with Nortel Networks, Canada.
• 2000: The company opens a Customer Relations Office in Toronto, Canada.
• 2001: MERA Networks complies with ISO 9001:2000 standard.
• 2005: MERA signs a contract with TietoEnator, a leading Swedish corporation.

MERA receives the Nortel Preferred Supplier Award for outstanding quality and service delivery performance.

• 2006: MERA achieves TL 9000 certification^[2] for provision of outsourced software development, testing and maintenance services.
• 2007: MERA Networks starts an innovative software development project with SynapSense, a leading provider of complete wireless instrumentation solutions.
• 2009: MERA Networks signs a long-term agreement with Networks In Motion, the award-winning wireless navigation, hyper-local search and location-based services (LBS) company, and achieves CMMI Level 3 Certification.
• 2010: MERA signs a long term agreement with Nakina Systems, the leading provider of carrier-grade off-the-shelf management solutions for service providers and network equipment vendors, and becomes a full member of the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI).

Areas of specialization

MERA Networks offers life cycle software R&D (software customization, localization and adaptation, test automation) and Professional services (integration, engineering, customer support as well as training services) in the following areas:

• Wireless communications (GSM, CDMA, UMTS, LTE, WiMAX, WiFi)
• Wireline communications(switches/routes, protocol stacks, TCP/IP)
• Enterprise Communications ( TDM/IP PBX, Unified Messaging/Communications Solutions, Enterprise Multimedia Communications, Digital/IP/SIP Clients)
• Embedded Software (VxWorks, OSE-Delta, pSOS, Symbian, Palm OS, UC Linux, picoBSD & proprietary OSs)

References

1. ^ http://www.meranetworks.com/about_us/fast_facts.php
2. ^ http://qfportal.utdallas.edu/questVer2/jsp/tl9000/pubProfile.jsp?id=16261&tlid=3584

External links

• MERA's web site