AVICI SYSTEMS ACCEPTS BTEXACT'S IP CORE ROUTER CHALLENGE
CONFIDENT IT CAN PROVIDE CARRIERS WITH LEVELS OF RELIABILITY, SCALABILITY AND DEPENDABILITY NOT POSSIBLE WITH LEGACY ROUTERS
North Billerica, MA, March 12, 2002 -- Avici Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: AVCI), a leading provider of scalable and reliable core routing solutions for the Internet, today announced that it has responded to the IP core router challenge issued by BTexact Technologies, BT's advanced research and technology business. Avici is confident that this evaluation will demonstrate the unmatched scalability, reliability and operational performance of the TSR® and SSR™ core routing platforms.
Following extensive research with major global carriers, BTexact recently released a study benchmarking the requirements of today's carriers for a new generation of core routers. BTexact then challenged leading providers of core routing platforms to have their platforms evaluated against this new benchmark.
Graham Reid, Director of Engineering at BTexact Technologies, said, "BTexact's study is a true measure of core router requirements demanded by today's carriers. In order for a core router to meet the demands of a multi-protocol operational environment, reliability, scalability and operational performance are the major design attributes required. We are pleased that Avici Systems has responded to our initiative to define the benchmark for carrier-class routers."
"Avici has always believed that for the Internet to become carrier-class, the foundation upon which it is built must also be carrier-class," said Esmeralda Swartz, Director of Marketing for Avici Systems. "The requirements that emerged from the enterprise market from which current legacy routers came are no longer acceptable metrics to use in supporting highly available Internet services. The next generation of core routers must offer the highest reliability and scalability to drive IP service dependability and profitability. We welcome the BTexact study, and are pleased to be working with BTexact in testing our equipment against these objective carrier requirements."
The study was initiated by BTexact to address a gap they perceived existed in the marketplace in testing core routers. Public core router testing efforts to date have been limited to a narrow technical evaluation of forwarding rates on various interfaces or "speeds and feeds". While forwarding performance is important, carriers are equally concerned with other more business-focused attributes such as reliability, scalability and stability. Avici believes this test heralds a new era for core routers.
Avici is the only router vendor that has designed and deployed an Internet core router designed specifically for carriers. Avici's family of carrier-class routers enables service providers to grow from five Gbps to over five Tbs of capacity as their demand increases. Avici's unique distributed Velociti™ architecture and robust IPriori™ software deliver the highest levels of network reliability while lowering the cost of building and operating IP networks.
The BTexact White Paper is available from:
Carrier requirements of core IP routers 2002
http://www.btexact.com/white_papers/downloads/WP113.pdf
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, Velociti, and IPriori are trademarks of Avici Systems Inc.
About BTexact Technologies
BTexact Technologies, BT's advanced research and technology business,
offers expertise and experience in communications technology and e-business,
backed by a team of more than 3000 technologists and one of the world's
largest communications research and development facilities. As the
centre of technical expertise for the BT Group, BTexact established
a record of world-first achievement and of successful delivery of projects,
large and small. It has also created an intellectual property portfolio
of some 14,000 patents based on almost 2000 inventions. BTexact is
also responsible for corporate incubator, Brightstar.
BTexact Technologies also provides services to companies outside the BT Group. It is headquartered at Adastral Park, at one end of the Cambridge-2-Ipswich Hi Tech Corridor, and is a founder member of the Cambridge Network. BTexact has people based worldwide - including locations across the UK and in Asia, continental Europe, and North America.
BTexact's employees include many who are world leaders in their specialist fields, working at the forefront of standards development and new technologies in areas including multimedia, IP and data networks, mobile communications, network design and management, and business applications. For more information about BTexact Technologies, please go to www.btexact.com
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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