AVICI SYSTEMS RECEIVES A COMET AWARD FOR LEADERSHIP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCALABLE ROUTING
Avici Demonstrates Superior Achievements in Technical Vision, Innovation and Risk Taking
N. Billerica, Mass., September 4, 2001 -- Avici Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: AVCI), a leading provider of scalable core routing solutions for intelligent IP-over-optical networks, today announced it was selected by Communication Systems Design magazine to receive a Comet Award for its leading-edge technology design. Avici was chosen based on its innovation and leadership in providing the industry's first scalable core router, the TSR®.
"We are very focused on delivering reliable and scalable routers to help carriers build their IP backbones," said Peter Chadwick, Avici's vice president of marketing. "We are honored to receive this award, which recognizes our technical innovation and foresight."
About Communication Systems Design
Communication Systems Design (www.csdmag.com)
is the magazine for engineers and managers involved in the design and
development of communications systems and equipment. The magazine focuses
on the leading-edge wired, optical and wireless technologies employed
in the development of personal, home/soho, enterprise, and infrastructure
systems and equipment. With a qualified circulation of 50,000 communications
engineers and managers, Communication Systems Design is published
by CMP Media LLC, a leading high-tech media company providing essential
information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum
- the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide.
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.
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 |