AVICI SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES SUPPORT OF OIF UNI SIGNALING TO ENABLE DYNAMIC SIGNALING BETWEEN OPTICAL AND IP SERVICES LAYER
Avici Continues Its Commitment to Open Platforms and Interoperability
N. Billerica, Mass., May 21, 2001 -- Avici Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: AVCI), a leading provider of scalable core routing solutions for intelligent IP-over-optical networks, today announced its support of the Optical Internetworking Forum's (OIF) User-Network Interface (UNI). UNI is an emerging industry initiative for supporting "just-in-time" dynamic provisioning of optical bandwidth, enabling carriers to offer new services quicker and more efficiently. Avici has successfully demonstrated optical UNI interoperability with all OIF vendor participants and will participate in OIF's interoperability demo at Supercomm 2001 in Atlanta on June 5-7 in OIF's booth #150D in the Georgia Dome.
The OIF is a non-profit organization with more than 300 member companies, including the world's leading carriers and vendors, such as Avici Systems. Its UNI signaling protocol enables carriers to dynamically establish connections between multi-vendor data networking equipment in the optical network. With OIF's UNI signaling, optical circuits can be physically activated in seconds to accommodate the needs of the IP layer, yielding operational efficiencies to a process that has traditionally taken months.
"OIF UNI signaling coupled with Avici's industry-leading Composite Links technology enables carriers to dynamically provision optical facilities and increase revenue and profit through faster service activation," said Adam Dunstan, president of OIF and vice president of technology at Avici. "The OIF's UNI initiative will help carriers take advantage of converged networks by turning on new revenue-generating services more quickly and cost effectively."
The OIF brings together packet and optical networking vendors to accelerate the deployment of interoperable, cost-effective and robust optical internetworks and their associated technologies. Optical internetworks are data networks composed of routers and data switches interconnected by optical networking elements.
Utilizing Composite Links and UNI signaling, the TSR can signal an optical switch to reassign wavelengths to high traffic links for dynamic reallocation of the total network. This provides a just-in-time approach to managing bandwidth inventories and maximizing revenue on deployed resources.
OIF's Interoperability Demo
The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is sponsoring its first User
Network Interface (UNI) Interoperability Demonstration at SUPERCOMM
in booth #150D in the Georgia Dome. This demonstration highlights OIF's
UNI Protocol that allows client devices to dynamically establish and
tear down optical circuit connections. The achievement of UNI interoperability
is the first step toward allowing carriers to offer advanced optical
network services across multi-vendor, multi-technology networks. OIF
is a rapidly growing non-profit organization with 350+ member companies
to date, including many of the world's leading carriers, component
and system vendors. The purpose of the OIF is to accelerate the deployment
of interoperable, cost effective, and robust optical internetworks
and their associated technologies.
More information on the OIF and the interoperability demo can be found at www.oiforum.com.
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. Composite Links is a trademark 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. When used in this press release, the words "will be" and other similar expressions are intended to identify such forward looking statements
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