AFORE Solutions Inc.

CA

About AFORE Solutions AFORE Solutions is about helping our clients and customers by creating synergy between our turnkey contract engineering services and our bi-directional channel development. Established in early 2003 in Ottawa, Canada, AFORE employs 30 highly experienced R&D, business and sales professionals. We have proven expertise in timely delivery of advanced technology and innovative business solutions.

The Market Opportunity The telecommunication downturn created increased outsourcing opportunities as companies ranging from large telecom vendors through tier 2 suppliers (such as protocol stack & chip vendors) drastically reduced costs and re-prioritized their R&D and sales channel activities. AFORE Solutions seized upon this opportunity to form a targeted team of engineers, business professionals, support staff and sales executives to provide engineering outsourcing, market development and sales services.

The AFORE Advantage AFORE Solutions has a unique two pillar organization with expertise in engineering contract services and bi-directional channel development. We help our clients and customers reduce their bottom line spending and increase their top line revenue thereby maximizing their return on investment (ROI) and profitability. AFORE can help solve urgent customer, business or product issues while our clients and partners can devote all their energy on important strategic product development and sales to their core customers/markets. Our experienced team, strategic relationships and cost effective operations enable our clients and partners to stay focused on their strategic business goals.

Bi-directional Channel Development AFORE has an experienced team of sales executives with top of the line business-savvy engineering and support professionals to deliver cost effective solutions to our clients and partners. We act as the intelligent, knowledgeable and capable mediation layer between our partners and clients. AFORE's office in Moscow is staffed with a team of sales and engineering specialists representing AFORE's technology and partners products in the Russian/CIS market. New Market Development AFORE provides local market research and recommendations to developing successful strategies for penetrating new markets. Marketing and presales support AFORE offers localized marketing and presales support to assist our partners sales efforts. Customized Technology Development AFORE offers services as a value added reseller to develop customized features onto our partners product lines. Integration and Technical Support AFORE acts as a first line of defense for customer support and customized integration. Engineering Services AFOREs contract engineering services offer turnkey solutions at business, sales and technical levels. AFORE works closely with their clients, from the defining phase through to the customer accepted final product, to achieve high quality and predictable results on time. We offer our partners a flexible pricing model that is designed to tailor the needs of our clients. It can be either fixed price, time metered or individually negotiated. Expertise AFORE has a track record of delivering high quality and complex engineering solutions on time. We have broad expertise to assist our clients and customers in all aspects of product development ranging from requirement definition, project planning, design & testing to final customer acceptance testing. This enables us to deliver complete and reliable turnkey solutions. Our technical expertise involves hardware, software, integrated silicon chipset, network processor and embedded microprocessors designs. AFOREs R&D team has in-depth expertise in telecommunication real-time embedded systems development. AFOREs hardware and software expertise can be applied to designs involving control, management and the data plane. We have in-depth technology knowledge in areas such as:

Routing, Bridging, Switching ATM, IP, MPLS, VoIP, Packet Ring, Ethernet, TDM Broadband Multi-Service Switching Next Generation SONET/SDH AFORE can integrate its expertise and know-how into clients or partners designs and help them to timely deliver their next generation products with full customer acceptance.

Information Technology; Telecommunications; Water and Environment

541510, 541330

China, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Pennsylvania