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MERA Networks is a Russian software R&D services provider for telecom equipment manufactures and IT solutions vendors. MERA is headquartered in Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened as Nizhny, is the fourth largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia, ranking after Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Novosibirsk....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. MERA Networks specializes in software R&D for cellular
Cellular

Normally Cellular means mobile device which works using direct satellite where as normal mobile works on towers.Cellular may refer to:*Cellular , a 2004 movie...
/wireless
Wireless

Wireless communication is the transfer of information over a distance without the use of electrical conductors or "wires". The distances involved may be short or long ....
/wireline communications as well as converged communications. The company is TL 9000
TL 9000

TL 9000 is a quality management practice designed by the QuEST Forum in 1998. It was created to focus on supply chain directives for the international telecommunications industry....
  and ISO 9001:2000 certified.






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MERA Networks is a Russian software R&D services provider for telecom equipment manufactures and IT solutions vendors. MERA is headquartered in Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened as Nizhny, is the fourth largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia, ranking after Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Novosibirsk....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. MERA Networks specializes in software R&D for cellular
Cellular

Normally Cellular means mobile device which works using direct satellite where as normal mobile works on towers.Cellular may refer to:*Cellular , a 2004 movie...
/wireless
Wireless

Wireless communication is the transfer of information over a distance without the use of electrical conductors or "wires". The distances involved may be short or long ....
/wireline communications as well as converged communications. The company is TL 9000
TL 9000

TL 9000 is a quality management practice designed by the QuEST Forum in 1998. It was created to focus on supply chain directives for the international telecommunications industry....
  and ISO 9001:2000 certified. Among MERA Networks clients are Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent is a global telecommunications corporation, headquartered in Paris, France. It provides telecommunications solutions to service providers, enterprises and governments around the world, enabling these customers to deliver voice, data and video services....
, Andrew[https://www.andrew.com/], Ericsson
Ericsson

Ericsson , one of the largest Sweden companies, is a leading provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks....
, Nortel
Nortel

Nortel Networks Corporation , formerly known as Northern Telecom Limited and sometimes known simply as Nortel, is a Multinational corporation telecommunications equipment manufacturing headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada....
, Tieto. The company is a full member of Russian Software Developers Association (RUSSOFT)
RUSSOFT

RUSSOFT, headquartered in Saint-Petersburg, is a multi-national association of software companies of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. It was founded on September 9, 1999 and has merged with the Fort-Ross Consortium in May 2004....


Development Timeline


  • 1989 : A group of professors from State Nizhny Novgorod Technical University founds MERA as a private firm specialized in antenna
    Antenna (radio)

    An 'antenna' is a transducer designed to transmitter or receive Electromagnetic radiations. In other words, antennas convert electromagnetic waves into electrical currents and vice versa....
     research and development.
  • 1990 : MERA wins first contracts with foreign customers.
  • 1993 : MERA concludes a first software development
    Software development

    Software development is the set of activities that results in software products. Software development may include research, new development, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities that result in software products....
     contract with Nortel Networks, Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending 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 Toronto
    Toronto

    Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
    , Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
    .
  • 2001 : MERA Networks fully complies with ISO 9001:2000 standard
    ISO 9000

    ISO 9000 is a family of standardization for quality management systems. ISO 9000 is maintained by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization and is administered by accreditation and certification bodies....
    .
  • 2003 : The company completes the construction of its own office building.
  • 2005 : MERA signs a contract with TietoEnator
    TietoEnator

    Tieto is an international software development company based in Finland.Active in more than 25 countries with close to 17 000 experts, Tieto is one of the largest IT services providers in Europe....
    , a leading Swedish corporation, expanding thus its business in Western Europe
    Western Europe

    Western Europe refers to the countries in the western most half of Europe. This concept has had different meanings, political and cultural as well as geographical issues have influenced the area....
    .
  • 2006 : MERA is the first company in Russia to achieve TL 9000 certification for provision of outsourced software development, testing and maintenance services.
- MERA signs a contract with Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent is a global telecommunications corporation, headquartered in Paris, France. It provides telecommunications solutions to service providers, enterprises and governments around the world, enabling these customers to deliver voice, data and video services....
, thus expanding its business in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 even further.
  • 2007 : MERA Networks starts collaborating with Andrew Corporation, a global manufacturer and supplier of RF systems and solutions.
- MERA Networks acquires a new client and starts a new software development project with SynapSense , a leading provider of complete wireless instrumentation products.

Areas of specialization


MERA Networks offers lifecycle software R&D services (customer requirements analysis, architecting, design
Software design

Software design is a process of problem-solving and planning for a software solution. After the purpose and specifications of software are determined, software developers will design or employ designers to develop a plan for a solution....
,development
Software development

Software development is the set of activities that results in software products. Software development may include research, new development, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities that result in software products....
, testing
Software testing

Software Testing is an empirical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test , with respect to the context in which it is intended to operate....
, verification, maintenance
Software maintenance

Software maintenance in software engineering is the modification of a software product after delivery to correct faults, to improve performance or other attributes, or to adapt the product to a modified environment ....
 and support) in the following areas:
  • Cellular communications (GSM, UMTS, CDMA, GPRS)
  • Wireless communications (WiMax
    WiMAX

    File:WiMAX Antenne aufm Land.jpgFile:WiMAX equipment.jpgWiMAX, meaning Worldwide Inter-operability for Microwave Access, is a telecommunications technology that provides wireless Transmission of data using a variety of transmission modes, from Point-to-multipoint links to portable and fully mobile internet access....
    ,WiFi
    WIFI

    WIFI is a radio station broadcasting a Variety radio format. Licensed to Florence, New Jersey, USA. The station is currently owned by Forsythe Broadcasting....
    )
  • Wireline communications(switching/routing
    Routing

    Routing is the process of selecting paths in a network along which to send network traffic. Routing is performed for many kinds of networks, including the PSTN, Computer network , and transport network....
    , protocol stacks, TCP/IP)
  • NGN services(IMS
    IMS

    IMS may refer to:...
     Core (HSS), IMS Gateways,IMS Clients, IMS Services (VoIP, IPTV
    IPTV

    IPTV is a system where a digital television service is delivered using Internet Protocol over a network infrastructure, which may include delivery by a broadband connection....
    , Unified Communications
    Unified communications

    Unified communications refers to a trend in business to simplify and integrate all forms of communications. It is typically a software program and infrastructure improvement....
    , IVR, Call Center)
  • Enterprise Communications (switches/routers, Digital and IP PBX
    IP PBX

    An IP PBX is a business telephone system designed to deliver voice over a data network and interoperate with the normal Public Switched Telephone Network ....
    , Enterprise Multimedia Communications, Analog/Digital and IP Clients)
  • Embedded Software
    Embedded software

    Embedded software is computer software which 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....
     (VxWorks, OSE-Delta, pSOS
    PSOS

    According to some industry insiders, pSOS stands for plug-in Silicon Operating System but the official stance is that it is not an abbreviation, just a made-up word....
    , Symbian, Palm OS
    Palm OS

    Palm OS is an embedded operating system operating system initially developed by U.S. Robotics Corp.-owned Palm, Inc. for personal digital assistants in 1996....
    , UC Linux
    Linux

    Linux is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by anyone under the terms of the GNU GPL license...
    , picoBSD
    PicoBSD

    PicoBSD was a single-floppy disk version of FreeBSD, one of the Berkeley Software Distribution 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....
     & proprietary OSs)
  • Digital Signal Processing
    Digital signal processing

    Digital signal processing is concerned with the representation of the signal s by a sequence of numbers or symbols and the processing of these signals....
     (speech and audio processing, text-to-speech technologies)
  • Antenna Technologies (antenna measurement
    Antenna measurement

    Antenna measurement techniques refers to the testing of antenna to ensure that the antenna meets specifications or simply to characterize it. Typical parameters of antennas are gain, radiation pattern, beamwidth, polarization, and impedance....
    s, antenna arrays and microwave modules design)


See also

Offshoring, Offshore outsourcing
Offshore outsourcing

Offshore outsourcing is the practice of hiring an external organization to perform some business functions in a country other than the one where the Product or Service are actually developed or manufactured....
, Offshore programming

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