European Communications
25 June, 2008 10:19 print this article email this article to a friend

MERA Expands Capabilities of its MVTS II Softswitch: Release 1.2.0

MERA Systems, industry-leading developer of tandem softswitches and session border controllers for VoIP, has announced the release of  MVTS II v.1.2.0.

MERA VoIP Transit Softswitch II (MVTS II) is a softswitch with fully distributed modular architecture and highly intelligent traffic handling options. MVTS II is specifically designed to increase the efficiency of VoIP traffic management on large scale networks.

The new release of MERA VoIP Transit Softswitch II is focused on the improvement of the system's billing capabilities. The innovations make invoicing more convenient and allow now adding calculable fields to the invoices. The invoicing functionality was revised and optimized. Now it is possible to:

 

  • Generate invoices according to predefined schedule;
  • Generate  .pdf invoices in one step;
  • Calculate taxes and include the resulting tax amounts into the total invoice amount;
  • Upload currency exchange rates to the Database from external servers.

MVTS II v. 1.2.0 includes new mechanisms of Database replication and management node redundancy. Earlier, replication was provided by means of database management system (DB), now it is fully ensured by intrinsic algorithms of Traffic Manager. The improvement has not only increased the solution's reliability but has also simplified the problem analysis. For maximum fault tolerance all Traffic Switch nodes including the management node are now backed up by launching additional nodes of the same type on separate servers.

A new node called "synchro" was introduced into Traffic Switch. The synchro node ensures synchronization of the System processes and control over the used resources. The synchro node interoperates with the signaling and Traffic Manager nodes. To enhance the System performance the newly-introduced synchro node stores current statistics and provides efficient access to statistic counters. The synchro node allows for absolute accuracy when applying equipment capacity restrictions (database storage limits of statistics on active calls could exceed the threshold earlier).

Some most serious issues of the previous releases were also fixed in the new version of MVTS II.  

Share this article with others

post to delicious Post to del.icio.us

Comment on this article

Skip to comments

We encourage users to analyse, comment on and even challenge European Communications's articles, including the one above - 'MERA Expands Capabilities of its MVTS II Softswitch: Release 1.2.0'

User reviews and comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site.

Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. We will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or privacy policies or any other policies governing this site.

Printed from http://www.eurocomms.com/online_press/112305/MERA_Expands_Capabilities_of_its_MVTS_II_Softswitch%3A_Release_120.html

Hot searches

NetCracker billing Italtel

Read more about...

Get our news by email

You can have European Communications news sent straight to your inbox either as it is published or, if you prefer, as a regular newsletter.

Click here to find out more

If you have already registered log in here to view or update your email settings, or if not, set up a FREE account.