Carrier Class Routing for the Real-Time IP Network
A New Model for IP Profitability
Avici Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: AVCI) is a leading provider of high-performance core routing solutions designed and built to deliver the scalability, reliability, and performance that carriers need to support a wide range of applications while lowering the total cost of building and operating their data networks. The Avici routing platform - the industry's only true carrier-class router - fundamentally changes the economics of operating an IP network, giving carriers a crucial competitive edge to meet their growth, performance and profitability objectives.
The Avici core routing product family consists of a variety of chassis and line cards to provide carriers with flexibility in selecting a product that best fits their needs. We offer customers three different equipment configurations, the Terabit Switch Router (TSR®), the Stackable Switch Router (SSR™), and the Quarter-rack Scalable Router (QSR™), and each chassis is configured with our line cards and software to support a range of speeds, protocols, and carrier services. Our core routers are designed to provide our customers:
- Carrier-class reliability to support mission critical and new real-time
services on Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Avici routers have achieved
99.999+% system availability in operational networks
- In-service modular scalability to enable non-disruptive incremental
capacity additions to the network. Avici routers expand linearly from
the smallest to largest configurations without costly upgrades or network
redesigns, thereby extending the longevity of the network and reducing
capital and operational costs
- Stability and interoperability required to transform today's complex
multi-tiered networks to a cost effective converged IP network
- High performance across very large IP-based core networks. Avici routers provide Quality of Service (QoS) to support carrier service level agreements (SLAs) with their customers for mission critical telecommunication services across an IP core network
Avici Systems enables carriers to take their IP networks to the next level of reliability and profitability by delivering routing solutions for the Real-Time IP network, a network designed for the most demanding applications, delivering the highest reliability, and achieving new levels of profitability.
Avici was incorporated in Delaware in 1996 and held its initial public offering in July 2000. We are headquartered in North Billerica, Massachusetts. At December 31, 2003, we had 230+ employees.
Carrier Designed, Field Proven
Avici has distinguished itself in the industry through a consistent focus
on carrier-class routing that supports customer's near-term and long-term
bandwidth and service requirements. Attributes such as 99.999% availability,
in-service upgrades, multi-generational investment protection, and
modular scalability were key requirements buit into the TSR®, SSR™,
and QSR™ platforms from the beginning. Using carrier-proven principles
of redundancy, in-service upgradeability, and quality assurance, Avici
innovations have set the bar for carrier-class routing:
- Avici's robust IPriori™ system
software sets a new standard for network stability and protocol scalability
- Avici's Velociti™ switch fabric provides modular in-service
scalability, eliminating the need for costly interconnections and disruptive
forklift upgrades
- Avici's unique Composite
Links™ technology lets carriers seamlessly expand capacity
and provides cost-effective link protection
- Avici's revolutinary NSR® non-stop
routing technology protects against route controller failure, delivering
99.999% availability and hitless software upgrades
- Avici's MSC™ line card platform
provides a high-performance packet and cell solution for ATM-like QoS
and ASAP™ Any Service Any Port flexibility to configure the linecard
through software to support ATM, frame relay, POS/PPP or MPLS
- Avici's RAPID™ technology delivers industry leading protocol performance times to improve recovery speed or "convergence time" resulting from a network disruption
Avici routers are powering the largest IP networks in the world. They have achieved industry leading levels of network availability and have scaled to multi-chassis systems in operational environments, supporting more traffic than any other router in the industry.
Customer deployments include:
- AT&T deployment in common IP backbone
- China Telecom deployment in five cities in the Guangdong province backbone
- IP-Only Telecommunications deployment with partner Nortel Networks for new network core
- SURFnet deployment with partner Nortel Networks for advanced hybrid optical and packet switching infrastructure
- Turk Telekom deployment through Alcatel for IP/MPLS backbone
- Limelight Networks for deployment in content network