MERA Systems Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY® Magazine's NEW 'INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence' Award for 2005

January 11, 2006

MERA VoIP Transit Softswitch (MVTS) Singled Out for Delivering Solutions That Improve VoIP/IP Telephony

Toronto, ON, Canada — January 11, 2006 — MERA Systems announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®)'s INTERNET TELEPHONY® magazine (www.itmag.com) has named MERA VoIP Transit Softswitch (MVTS) as a recipient of an INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award for 2005. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been VoIP Authority since 1998™.

MERA VoIP Transit Softswitch (MVTS) is a carrier-grade solution designed for end-to-end management of VoIP networks. MVTS provides intelligent call routing, call admission control (CAC), and compatibility with equipment from a multitude of vendors. The interworking functionalities are enabled by MERA's unique codec conversion capabilities, along with support for both SIP and H.323. MERA's MVTS is a fully redundant system that scales up to 40,000 concurrent calls. MVTS provides a single entry point into the carrier's network, and radically simplifies the network structure and management while maintaining business-critical security levels.

"We are honored to be among those industry leaders who are shaping the landscape of modern telecom. This award is a valuable sign of recognition of our efforts, and we are determined to move further in developing new products, which will help international carriers better manage their networks and provide new services to customers on the global scale. We would like to thank our customers, whose support is a genuine and invaluable asset, for their assistance in field testing of our solutions," said Dr. Konstantin Nikashov, President and CEO of MERA Systems.

"The editorial staff of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine is proud to announce the winners of the first-ever INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Awards. These companies are as varied as there are products that fit under the IP telephony umbrella. But the one thing that binds them all together is that they all excel at delivering solutions that solve their customers' needs," indicated Rich Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

"The VoIP space is hot these days, and it's easy to get caught up in the hype associated with such a buzzing marketplace. However, the winners of the first-ever INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award are not merely "me-too" players. MERA Systems has proven to the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY that MVTS has excelled in the VoIP/IP Telephony industry, and most importantly, its customers are willing to speak up and offer themselves as references," said Greg Galitzine, Editorial Director of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

The INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners for 2005 will be published in the October issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

MERA Systems, Inc.
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. The MERA solutions offer a powerful combination of efficiency, scalability and rich functionality, bringing added value and revenue-generating opportunities to carriers globally. To date, MERA is a key provider of highly reliable and cost-effective VoIP softswitches, has over 400 customer deployments in 50 countries of the world, and controls 70% of the session controller market in Russia & CIS countries and about 4% worldwide. For more information about MERA, visit its website at www.mera-systems.com

About TMC™
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes two print magazines: Customer Interaction Solutions, and Internet Telephony; five digital publications, SIP Magazine, Speech-World, WiFi Telephony Magazine, VoIP Developer, WiMAX Magazine; and the online publications TMCnet.com, Planet PDA Magazine, WiFi Revolution, Alternative Power and BiometriTech. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, Speech-World Conference, IP Contact Center Summit and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMCnet.com publishes more than 25 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit its Web site at www.tmcnet.com



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