MERA Networks Sponsored Gartner Outsourcing Summit 2007

March 19-21, 2007 — MERA Networks, Eastern Europe’s leading provider of Telecom software services with headquarters and R&D center located in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia and customer relations office located in Toronto, Canada, was the Silver Sponsor of the Gartner Outsourcing Summit 2007, held in Dallas, Texas, USA, on March 19-21.

The Gartner Outsourcing Summit is one of the key outsourcing events, aimed at providing a comprehensive view of the entire outsourcing arena to allow leaders from both business and IT groups to come together.

At the Summit Аlexey Myakov, Director of Business Development at MERA Networks, hosted a boardroom session focused on advantages of Russia as an outsourcing destination, among which he emphasized: the high level of education, competitive rates of services and economical stability. Having 17 years of experience in the IT industry and more than 900 highly skilled, well educated, motivated software engineers MERA Networks goes beyond these benefits providing full cycle software R&D services confirmed by ISO 9001:2000 and TL9000 certificates to the world’s forefront telecom companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nortel, TietoEnator and more.

“Taking MERA Networks as an example we aimed at demonstrating the key competitive differentiators of a company that make the success of a long-term outsourcing relationship, — says Alexey Myakov, Director of Business Development at MERA Networks — We showcased how MERA Networks' outstanding telecommunication expertise, extensive experience mission critical and complex systems, mature project management methodologies and strong track record of employee retention help to build up teams with the right knowledge and skills to solve our clients' most challenging tasks.”

The Gartner Outsourcing Summit is an exceptional opportunity to make B2B contacts. During the Summit MERA Networks executives had a series of matchmaking meetings in which they presented the company’s benefits and made a number of valuable business contacts among the Summit attendees.

About Gartner Outsourcing Summit

The Gartner Outsourcing Summit is an annual event providing a comprehensive view of the entire outsourcing arena to allow the leaders from both business and IT groups to come together; and offers a holistic understanding of all options, risks and opportunities available. The Summit provides unbiased, road-tested advice and best practices necessary for setting outsourcing strategies and objectives, evaluating and selecting the right services providers, managing relationships with external partners and delivering profitable outcomes.

Additional information is available at: http://www.gartner.com/us/outsourcing

About MERA Networks

MERA Networks is an international IT and telecom software development outsourcing company offering in-house and offshore software programming services for wireline and wireless communication systems, cellular and satellite systems, IP Telephony, digital signal processing, and embedded software. With 17+ years experience in offshore programming in the most rapidly developing sectors of the IT market, MERA Networks is a trusted source of offshore software development services that accompany the product at every stage of its life cycle, from design and development to sustenance and testing.

For further information about MERA Networks please refer to: http://www.meranetworks.com