MERA Networks
Encyclopedia
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.
Telecom
Telecom refers to:* An abbreviation of telecommunication.* Short for telecommunications company, in general.* A short name for any telecommunications company with "Telecom" specifically in the name, where context allows media or people to commonly exclude the rest of its name without confusion,...
/datacom equipment manufacturers and IT software solutions vendors: Ericsson
Ericsson
Ericsson , one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks...
, Networks In Motion , Nortel
Nortel
Nortel Networks Corporation, formerly known as Northern Telecom Limited and sometimes known simply as Nortel, was a multinational telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada...
, SynapSense, Tieto. MERA Networks features a wide array of telecom expertise in converged/wireless
Wireless
Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...
/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 antennaAntenna (radio)An antenna is an electrical device which converts electric currents into radio waves, and vice versa. It is usually used with a radio transmitter or radio receiver...
research and development. - 1990: MERA wins first contracts with foreign customers.
- 1993: MERA concludes a first software developmentSoftware developmentSoftware development is the development of a software product...
contract with Nortel Networks, CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. - 2000: The company opens a Customer Relations Office in TorontoTorontoToronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. - 2001: MERA Networks complies with ISO 9001:2000 standardISO 9000The ISO 9000 family of standards relates to quality management systems and is designed to help organizations ensure they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders . The standards are published by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, and available through National...
. - 2005: MERA signs a contract with TietoEnatorTietoEnatorTieto Oyj is an IT service company domiciled in Helsinki, Finland.Active in close to 30 countries with approximately 18,000 employees, Tieto is one of the largest IT service providers in Europe....
, a leading Swedish corporation.
- MERA receives the Nortel Preferred Supplier Award for outstanding quality and service delivery performance.
- 2006: MERA achieves TL 9000 certification 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 serviceLocation-based serviceA Location-Based Service is an information or entertainment service, accessible with mobile devices through the mobile network and utilizing the ability to make use of the geographical position of the mobile device....
s (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, LTE3GPP Long Term Evolution3GPP Long Term Evolution, usually referred to as LTE, is a standard for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals. It is based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies, increasing the capacity and speed using new modulation techniques...
, WiMAXWiMAXWiMAX is a communication technology for wirelessly delivering high-speed Internet service to large geographical areas. The 2005 WiMAX revision provided bit rates up to 40 Mbit/s with the 2011 update up to 1 Gbit/s for fixed stations...
, WiFiWIFIWIFI is a radio station broadcasting a brokered format. Licensed to Florence, New Jersey, USA, the station is currently operated by Florence Broadcasting Partners, LLC.This station was previously owned by Real Life Broadcasting...
) - Wireline communications(switches/routes, protocol stacks, TCP/IP)
- Enterprise Communications ( TDM/IP PBXIP PBXAn IP PBX is a business telephone system designed to deliver voice or video over a data network and interoperate with the normal Public Switched Telephone Network ....
, Unified MessagingUnified messagingUnified Messaging is the integration of different electronic messaging and communications media technologies into a single interface, accessible from a variety of different devices....
/Communications Solutions, Enterprise Multimedia Communications, Digital/IP/SIP Clients) - Embedded SoftwareEmbedded softwareEmbedded software is computer software that plays an integral role in the electronics it is supplied with.Embedded software's principal role is not Information technology , but rather the interaction with the physical world. It's written for machines that are not, first and foremost, computers...
(VxWorks, OSE-Delta, pSOSPSOSpSOS is a real time operating system , created in about 1982 by Alfred Chao, and developed/marketed for the first part of its life by his company Software Components Group...
, SymbianSymbianSymbian is a mobile operating system and computing platform designed for smartphones and currently maintained by Accenture. The Symbian platform is the successor to Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60; unlike Symbian OS, which needed an additional user interface system, Symbian includes a user...
, Palm OSPalm OSPalm OS is a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants in 1996. Palm OS is designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provided with a suite of basic applications for personal information management...
, UC LinuxLinuxLinux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
, picoBSDPicoBSDPicoBSD was a single-floppy disk version of FreeBSD, one of the BSD operating system descendants. In its different variations, PicoBSD allows one to have secure dialup access, a small diskless router, or even a dial-in server, all on only one standard 1.44MB floppy. It runs on a minimum 386SX CPU...
& proprietary OSs)