Under the terms of the agreement Net One Systems and Sheer Networks will offer Japanese service providers unique benefits through the Sheer™ BOS solution. The Sheer™ BOS is designed to help large service provider’s support and control their network services, enabling them to dramatically reduce operational costs, increase revenue, and improve customer satisfaction and service quality.

The Sheer™ BOS solution provides powerful service assurance and fulfillment capabilities. This includes accurate, automatic activation of new added services, swiftly discovering and maintaining an accurate real-time view of the network assets through both the physical and logical network element connections, and detecting problems as they appear and correlating them with the impacted services.

The solution provided helps service providers create an edge over rivals, by allowing them to efficiently and profitably respond to constant market demand for new, and more sophisticated services. It also allows for unbounded scalability with little, or no, adaptation time, enabling carriers to manage and control their rapid growth.

“Net One's strength lies in consolidating best-of-breed technologies from the world's leading vendors, and adding high quality technology services,” said Mr. Toyoki Kasahara, General Manager of Net One Systems, Japan. “Sheer Networks’ product fits well within our comprehensive product portfolio, enabling us to address and solve the critical business issues faced by Japanese communications service providers today”.

“We are extremely excited about the opportunity to work with such a distinguished and experienced player in the Asia-Pacific market,” said Tzvi Magril, the VP International Sales of Sheer Networks. “This agreement solidifies the relationship between Sheer and Net One where the two companies are already engaged in a number of opportunities in Japan ”.

“With more than 11 million broadband subscribers, and almost half a million new subscribers each month over the past two years, Japan is one of the world’s fastest-growing broadband markets,” said Amir Pomerantz, Vice President of Triangle Technologies. “Sheer Networks addresses a pressing and immediate need faced by service providers today. We are delighted that Triangle was able to bring these two leading companies together”.

About Sheer Networks

Sheer Networks is the leading provider of network service management solutions for large enterprises and communications service providers. Sheer’s proven solution radically improves the ability of service providers to deploy and operate profitable services on next-generation networks, to increase customer satisfaction, and to scale networks according to their projected growth.
The company’s flagship product is the award-winning Sheer™ BOS, which provides continuous auto-discovery across multi-layer, multi-domain, multi-vendor networks and services. This enables Sheer to provide state-of-the-art capabilities in the areas of inventory reconciliation, service assurance and service configuration for next generation networks.
Sheer is a privately owned company founded in 1999. It is headquartered in Lakewood, New Jersey, USA. Sheer’s solutions are marketed globally through direct sales, as well as through leading SI and VARs around the world. For more information, please visit: www.sheernetworks.com

About Net One Systems

Net One Systems has been assessing the latest trends in cutting edge technology, such as focusing on IP ahead of others, and providing network systems by adding high quality technology services to self-selected and verified products. Net One provides a one-stop solution with high added value through the strength of advanced network technology and an enhanced support structure. Nationwide, there are 75 service bases, including technical centers and quality control centers, and 12 business offices. In December 2001, it was listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. To learn more about Net One, visit their website at www.netone.co.jp/index_e.html