Internet Telephony® Magazine Awards Avici'S TSR® Product Of The Year
Avici Recognized for Its Commitment to Quality and Constant Innovation
N. Billerica, Mass., January 09, 2001 -- Avici Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: AVCI), a leading provider of scalable core routing solutions for intelligent IP-over-optical networks, today announced its TSR® was named an Internet Telephony® Magazine Product of the Year for the addition of IprioriTM Carrier System Control Software with Quality of Service (QoS) and MPLS support.
The Internet Telephony® Product of the Year award is designed to honor innovative products and services that have made a positive impact on the convergence of voice and data. Award winners are featured in Internet Telephony's January issue. The advanced MPLS and QoS capabilities in the TSR's IPrioriTM software allows carriers to optimize and control switching and routing to support new IP-based services such as VoIP, MPLS VPNs and video delivery, future revenue drivers for service providers.
"The Internet Telephony® Product of the Year award allows us to honor exemplary products across a broad span of the marketplace," said TMC president and group publisher Rich Tehrani. "As the industry matures, we're finding more than just products and services on the market -- entire solutions are being offered. The awards, selected by the editors of Internet Telephony® Magazine and the engineers of TMC Labs, are designed to honor those companies, such as Avici Systems for their TSR, as they continue to forge ahead with the development of the next generation of global telecommunications."
"Avici Systems is honored to accept this prestigious award and we are thankful to everyone at Internet Telephony® for this distinction," said Pete Chadwick, Avici's vice president of marketing. "This award reinforces Avici's technology leadership in the core routing market and our commitment to offering our customers innovative technology to support their business goals."
The Avici TSR, a highly reliable and scalable core router platform capable of in-service upgrades, enables carriers to provision bandwidth and new IP services dynamically according to business requirements.
About Avici Systems
Avici Systems Inc., headquartered in North Billerica, Mass., is a developer
of next-generation Internet backbone platforms that optimize and drive
creation of all-optical "speed-of-light" networks. Designed
to bring packet intelligence to the core of optical networks, Avici's
technologies offer superior scalability, resiliency and port density
enabling just-in-time bandwidth provisioning, high reliability and
the quality of service needed for carriers and ISPs to support mission-critical
applications of the future. Visit Avici's World Wide Website at http://www.avici.com.
Avici and TSR are registered trademarks of Avici Systems Inc.
This release contains information about Avici's future expectations, plans, and prospects that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated.
Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, market acceptance of Avici products, services and enhancements, customer purchasing patterns and commitments, development of the market place, product development and enhancement, intensity of competition of other vendors, technological changes and other risks set forth in Avici's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| Esmeralda Swartz Director of Strategic Marketing Avici Systems 978-964-2000 eswartz@avici.com |
Cathy Caldeira/Dylan Locsin LNS Communications 617-577-9777 ccaldeira@LNScom.com dlocsin@LNScom.com |