Avici Systems' TSR® and SSR™ Core Routers Provide Backbone for Supercomputing 2001 Demonstration
Denver, Colo., November 12, 2001 -- Avici Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: AVCI), a leading provider of scalable and reliable core routing solutions for the Internet, today demonstrated its leadership position in Internet Protocol (IP) routing by collaborating with more than a dozen vendors and government research laboratories at the Supercomputing 2001 annual meeting in Denver. Avici Systems' TSR® and SSR™ core routers serve as the foundation for the backbone network of the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) demonstration. The application will be shown at booth R375 on November 12.
ASCI is focused on demonstrating improved network and storage efficiencies for distance supercomputing requirements across an integrated, end-to-end, standards-based IP infrastructure. The project will validate the baseline architecture necessary to incorporate application, storage and transport requirements in the most efficient manner across the wide area network (WAN).
In addition to providing the network backbone, Avici's Composite Links™ technology provides load balancing and fast failover over the WAN testbed. Other industry partners supporting the network include leading networking and telecommunications companies such as AT&T, Brocade, DataDirect Networks, Nishan Systems, Riverstone Networks, Silicon Graphics, Spirent Communications, Sun Microsystems and VERITAS Software.
ASCI provides modeling and simulation capabilities for the DOE's science-based stockpile stewardship activities at the three defense programs' laboratories, Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore. Advanced computations and three-dimensional modeling and simulation are developed to ensure safe and reliable maintenance of the nation's nuclear arsenal in the absence of nuclear testing. To promote standard technology development, ASCI Problem Solving Environment (PSE) researchers at Sandia, Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories (the TriLab Testbed) are collaborating with researchers in the Distance Computing (DISCOM), Visual Interactive Environment for Weapons Simulation (VIEWS) and Scalable I/O (SIO) initiatives.
"This powerful technique for scientists to manipulate and intuitively grasp data is particularly suited to high-speed networking, since collaborators are often widely distributed geographically and the calculations are information-rich," said Mike Koszykowski, of Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., who is the ASCI program manager for the PSE initiative.
Following the demonstrations, the partners will validate test results over an operational AT&T WAN. AT&T is providing and managing an OC-48 (2.5Gb/s) wavelength service between customer premises in Albuquerque, N.M., to Livermore over AT&T's next-generation optical network.
"We are committed to providing the most reliable and scalable family of routers to the DOE in support of the distributed computing requirements of its research community members," said Steve Kaufman, president and CEO of Avici Systems. "This demonstration will bring us closer to establishing the most efficient standards-based storage area network (SAN) and WAN infrastructure."
About Avici Systems
Avici Systems Inc., headquartered in North Billerica, Mass., is a leading
provider of purpose-built carrier-class routing solutions for the Internet.
Avici's family of routers is designed to meet carrier requirements
for the highest scalability, reliability and network availability,
while lowering the total cost of building and operating their networks.
The company's routing systems provide new IP solutions to some of the
world's leading service providers. For more information, please visit
us at www.avici.com.
Avici, TSR, SSR, and Composite Links are trademarks of Avici Systems Inc.
This press release contains forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words "will" and other similar expressions are intended to identify such forward looking statements. 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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