Asia Telecom Deploys MERA's Session Controller to Power Its International Calling Services

December 23, 2004

MVTS Session Controller Helps Asia Telecom Offer its Customers Reliable Voice Services at Low Rates.

Toronto, ON, Canada — December 23, 2004 — MERA Systems, Inc., a leading supplier of scalable and full-featured VoIP solutions, today announced that Asia Telecom has deployed MERA's MVTS Session Controller for delivery of international direct dialing services to customers in over 220 countries across the globe.

Asia Telecom is an international telecom service provider based in Hong Kong with associate offices across the world. The Company provides telecom products and value added services to its customers and offers them competitive rates while maintaining the critical voice quality and reliability levels.

The MVTS Session Controller from MERA Systems has been deployed by Asia Telecom to ensure dependable and cost-effective management of their network and streamline the network infrastructure.

"MERA's Session Controller is a flexible tool that enables centralized and simplified network management coupled with ready scalability to accommodate for our network's buildup," comments Michael Chiu, Technical Director for Asia Telecom. "Our business is set to grow. It means that we must possess the tools that ensure unconstrained and always-ready network capacity upgrade. MERA's MVTS is a truly carrier-grade solution that can efficiently handle large traffic volumes and provide for fast and easy scalability. With MVTS, capacity upgrade is a matter of several minutes — instead of days — and requires no service interruption This is essential for a successful and growing business."

MERA's MVTS Session Controller offers the following benefits:

Seamless interoperability with multi-vendor equipment. As an ILD service provider, Asia Telecom needs to effectively and securely peer with partner carriers. MERA's Session Controller provides fault-free traffic exchange with partner networks built on multivendor solutions, simplifying the network infrastructure and bringing down the cost of peering.
Accurate generation of billing data for international direct dial service transparency. MVTS performs centralized network management and VoIP transit switching on Asia Telecom's Cisco powered network. It provides a single point for collection of accounting information and guarantees protection against data loss, ensuring that no calls are 'lost' in the system and remain unbilled. Furthermore, MVTS interacts in real-time with Asia Telecom's internal billing system via RADIUS protocol and enables Asia Telecom to deliver both prepaid and postpaid services and offer a variety of pricing schemes to their customers.
Intelligent routing of calls. With its intrinsic smart routing tools, MVTS allows Asia Telecom to dynamically channel calls through the available links based on their cost and quality. This functionality helps Asia Telecom to efficiently manage the differentiated tariff schemes they offer to different communities and corporate groups.

"MVTS Session Controller is a powerful tool that ensures easy manageability of Asia Telecom's complex network, and helps them maintain the high quality of service they provide to their clientele," says Konstantin Nikashov, CEO for MERA Systems. "The MERA Session Controller technology has been selected by Asia Telecom because it perfectly meets the feature, cost-effectiveness and reliability requirements they need to ensure while pursuing dominance in their target market segments. Furthermore, Asia Telecom can now easily cooperate with the growing community of VoIP carriers that are already utilizing MVTS and benefit from quick interconnects and fault-free interoperability with their networks."

About MERA Systems, Inc.
MERA Systems develops industry-leading IP Telephony products and solutions that enable VoIP carriers and service providers to deliver real-time voice services across packet networks. MERA's award-winning MVTS is a truly carrier-grade session controller that scales up to 40, 000 concurrent calls, supports SIP, H.323 and their dialects, provides call admission control, QoS management, SLA assurance and all other features needed for end-to-end network management. Founded in 1989, MERA is a privately owned corporation with offices in Canada and Russia. For more information, visit us at www.mera-systems.com.

About Asia Telecom
Asia Telecom is a Licensed Telecom Service Provider with the 1611 Interconnect Carrier Code. Asia Telecom is a licensee of Artillium Communications, Belgium and Clariti Technologies, USA. It also has operating licenses in Singapore and South Korea.
Asia Telecom operates a full spectrum of international dialing services — IDD, calling card and call back services for low-cost international phone calls, call forward roaming for traveling mobile phone users, international conference calling for corporate customers, and more. Asia Telecom is always looking forward to forming business alliances with other MERA Systems operators. For more information and to discuss areas of co-operation, you may visit our website http://www.asiatel.com.hk, contact us at info@asiatel.com.hk or call us at 852 2877 7881.

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