Avici Delivers Reliability Breakthrough in Carrier-Class IP Routing
Guarantees 99.999% Availability in a Single Router with New NSR® Technology
N. Billerica, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2002 -- Avici Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq:AVCI) the specialist in high reliability routing solutions for the Internet, today announced NSR® non stop routing technology for its family of SSR™ and TSR® routers. Avici's NSR® technology delivers 99.999% availability in a single router, enabling carriers to end the practice of duplicating routers at each point of presence for reliability. Avici is demonstrating its NSR® technology at the SUPERCOMM 2002 trade show in Atlanta from June 4-6 in booth #11341, Hall C.
Avici is also guaranteeing its NSR® technology with a Service Level Agreement (SLA) for 99.999% availability in a single router. This guarantee demonstrates Avici's confidence in the reliability of its routers and a willingness to partner with carriers to deliver the industry's most reliable IP services.
"Vendors and service providers are finally realizing that 'best effort' IP networks do not support the key requirements critical to enterprises and service providers," said Chris Nicoll, vice president of telecom infrastructure at analyst firm Current Analysis. "Service providers seeking to improve the profitability of their IP networks by offering VoIP, video, VPN and managed services need to offer the same reliability found in ATM and TDM networks, and Avici's NSR® technology is a big step in that direction."
Despite recent proposed improvements such as protocol-level resilience, traditional routers remain less reliable than ATM, Frame Relay or voice equipment. To obtain acceptable network reliability, carriers must duplicate legacy routers at each point of presence (PoP) to protect against failures. This design results in high capital and operational costs and contributes to the industry's lack of profitability on IP services.
"With Avici's NSR® technology, carriers don't have to clone routers at every point in their network to protect against router failures," said Steve Kaufman, president and CEO of Avici Systems. "Our reliability breakthrough delivers a quantum leap in IP profitability for carriers, reducing capital expenditures while improving margins from more reliable IP services."
NSR® Technology:
- Completely self-contained solution with no dependence on protocol extensions
- Leverages Avici's IPriori™ software, high-performance server, and Composite Links™
- Provides transparent switchover to an active backup controller that
immediately takes over the control functions of the router
- Executed without disrupting the routing protocol interactions with other routers, without resetting interfaces and without dropping packets
- Maintains all pertinent routing state on backup server at all times
- Supports two or more backup controllers for redundancy
- Enables hitless software upgrades to be performed while interfaces keep forwarding
- Supports all of the major protocols (BGP, IS-IS, and OSPF)
- Provides Layer 2 link redundancy through Composite Links
In contrast, "Headless Forwarding" approaches used by competitors require interoperability with other neighboring routers implementing competing IETF drafts. These solutions continue operating even when the primary service has experienced catastrophic failure and cannot return. This can cause out-of-date routes to continue forwarding and lead to forwarding loops.
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 Tbps of capacity as their demand increases. Avici's unique distributed Velociti™ architecture, robust IPriori™ software, and NSR® non-stop routing technology deliver the highest levels of network reliability while lowering the cost of building and operating IP networks.
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, IPriori, and NSR® are 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. When used in this press release, the word "will", "expected" 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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