E-xpedient Selects MERA's Session Controller To Ensure Cost-Effective Interconnection With Customer Enterprises
May 24, 2004
Toronto, ON, Canada — May 21, 2004 — MERA Systems, a forefront provider of full-featured session controllers for VoIP carriers, today announced that E-xpedient, a USA-based service provider serving more than 29, 000 customers, has deployed the MVTS session controller for efficient interconnection with customer enterprises and peering partners.
E-xpedient is a fast-growing Internet Service Provider (ISP) whose core customers are small to midsize businesses in 30 markets across the US. The MVTS has strengthened E-xpedient's value proposition by allowing it to provide high-quality, reliable voice services to enterprises.
The MVTS is an award-winning session controller deployed at the core of E-xpedient's network to enable direct IP-to-IP interconnection with business customers. The advanced protocol translation capabilities provide for excellent connectivity between a variety of VoIP devices while eliminating carrier/enterprise incompatibility challenges without any add-on equipment. The MVTS radically simplifies the network structure, which results in measurable cost-savings and allows E-xpedient to offer competitive rates while maintaining a mission-critical level of service quality and reliability.
Along with connectivity assurance and session control, the MVTS performs intelligent call routing functions, which allows E-xpedient to efficiently peer with wholesale carriers for greater service reach and generate new revenue streams. The intrinsic smart routing engine of the MVTS provides a wide choice of routing policies including time of day and least cost routing. Armed with this ingenious tool, E-xpedient can marshal its VoIP traffic via the most profitable and best-quality paths.
"The MVTS session controller is a highly feature-rich yet affordable solution that has enabled us to bring down our own expenses and offer competitive rates to our customers while maintaining the critical QoS and reliability levels," says Bradley Reynolds, President and CEO of E-xpedient. "This is exactly what SMBs call for, with their need for professional communications services similar to larger enterprises but at a reasonable cost. Furthermore, by providing excellent interoperability and ease of deployment, the MVTS has increased our speed-to-market, helping us to simply stand out from the competition."
"MERA Systems has created its state of the art MVTS session controller to make VoIP services readily available to any end-user — be it a large company, a small business or an individual," says Natalya Korobkova, Marketing Director of MERA Systems, Inc. "We are willing to go the 'the extra mile' to ensure that carriers like E-xpedient can easily reach out to enterprise customers offering them the true value of IP communications. MERA is committed to enhancing our solution with new market-driven features and functionality, and today the MVTS is more than a session controller, as it performs a wide diversity of functions from border control to connectivity assurance to smart routing, and more. We are pleased to contribute to E-xpedient's effort to deliver 'anytime, anywhere' communications in the North American market."
About MERA Systems, Inc.
MERA Systems, Inc. is the forefront supplier of VoIP technologies delivering the functionality and features needed for successful operation of service providers. The MERA solutions offer a powerful combination of efficiency, scalability and affordable price, bringing added value and revenue-generating opportunities to carriers globally.
MERA is a privately owned corporation with offices in Canada and Russia. It has 12 years of experience in international software development and employs over 400 qualified engineers. MERA Systems pioneered the industry of session border controllers by launching a VoIP division in 2001. To date the company is a key provider of highly reliable and cost-effective SBC's, has over 200 customer deployments in 25 countries of the world, and controls 80% of the SBC market in Russia. To learn more about MERA Systems, visit us at www.mera-systems.com.
About E-xpedient
E-xpedient is a next generation Ethernet-based ISP focused on delivering high-speed IP services to businesses in the multi-tenant marketplace and to service providers located in major metropolitan areas across the United States. The E-xpedient solution makes high-speed IP services an affordable reality for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as large enterprises and service providers. E-xpedient's facilities-based, all-optical end-to-end IP network enables non-oversubscribed 1000 Mbps connectivity at radically low pricing levels. Our website can be found at www.e-xpedient.com.
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