Avici Systems Demonstrates Performance and Interoperability of MPLS Fast Reroute Solution at MPLS Congress 2003
QSR and SSR Carrier Routers Provide Core Foundation for Leading-edge Multi-Vendor MPLS Network
Paris, France, February 5, 2003 -- Avici Systems (Nasdaq: AVCI), the specialist in highly reliable Internet routing solutions, today announced its participation in a large multi-vendor MPLS interoperability test at the MPLS World Congress 2003. Avici joins 13 leading equipment vendors in a public MPLS Interoperability test designed to demonstrate the capability of multi-vendor MPLS technology and equipment to meet the real world requirements of service providers. The demonstration will consist of a network running two major MPLS signaling protocols—RSVP-TE in the core and LDP at the edge of the network allowing VPN services to be established over the hierarchical network. The focus is on demonstrating scalability of multi-vendor VPNs (Layer 2 and 3) and interoperability of MPLS Fast Reroute. The MPLS Forum and the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC), in cooperation with the ETSI Interoperability Service, and Upperside organized the event.
Avici successfully tested interoperability for MPLS technology, applications and services during a staging at the EANTC labs in Berlin, Germany, between January 20 and January 24, 2003. All vendors will be participating in a live MPLS interoperability showcase taking place at the MPLS World Congress in Paris, February 5-7, 2003. A white paper discussing the test methodology as well as key findings from the test event will be made available to attendees who visit the interoperability event. As part of the EANTC/MPLS Forum interoperability test, Avici Systems demonstrated key MPLS-based services, including Fast Reroute.
MPLS Fast Reroute allows instantaneous recovery of MPLS connections after a link or node failure. During the testing, Avici Systems achieved recovery times well below 45ms, proving that a fully protected MPLS network can be constructed without having to rely on costly Sonet/SDH Automatic Protection Switching (APS).
The Fast Reroute testing was based on the latest IETF specification: draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-lsp-fastreroute-01. Fast Reroute is a key MPLS feature for the development of next-generation Internet services and is utilized to efficiently provision node and link protection for minimizing packet loss in the event of a link or node failure. The Fast Reroute capable MPLS core network consisted of 7 Packet over SONET (POS) and 5 Gigabit Ethernet links. Avici is the first and only vendor to publicly demonstrate both the MPLS Fast Reroute facility (bypass) and detour backup alternatives. In both scenarios, Avici routers were able to set up protected paths in under 45ms.
“There is a continued commitment by Avici Systems to deliver leading edge interoperable MPLS-based solutions to service providers to enable them to deliver value added services such as VPNs to their customers,” says Gabriele Schrenk, Managing Director of EANTC. “This latest round at the EANTC provides carriers with an opportunity to witness MPLS interoperability among the industry’s leading vendors. The testing identified network scenarios in which interoperability was achieved between the vendors, bringing the industry closer to building next-generation networks comprised of new IP-based services.”
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, QSR, NSR®, and IPriori 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 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.
About EANTC
The European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) offers vendor-neutral
network test facilities for manufacturers, service providers, and enterprise
customers. Primary business areas include interoperability, conformance,
and performance testing for IP, ATM, MPLS, and broadband voice-related
network technologies and applications. EANTC provides network-related
services including consulting and seminars for ATM, MPLS, and other
networking technologies. For more information about EANTC contact Gabriele
Schrenk, Managing Director, at +49.30.3180595-0 or via e-mail at schrenk@eantc.com.
http://www.eantc.com
About ETSI
ETSI - the European Telecommunications Standards Institute - is officially
responsible for standardization in telecommunications, broadcasting
and certain aspects of information technology within Europe. It produces
a wide range of standards and other technical documentation as Europe's
contribution to world-wide standardization. A non-profit making organization
based in Sophia Antipolis, France, ETSI unites nearly 800 members from
more than 55 countries inside and outside Europe, and brings together
manufacturers, network operators, administrations, service providers,
research bodies and users - in fact, all the key players in the telecommunications
arena. For more information: http://www.etsi.org/
For more information about testing events organized by the ETSI Plugtests
Service: http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/
About Upperside
Founded in 1994 by Michel Gosse and Rémi Scavenius, Upper Side
has steadily gained credibility in the professional world as a leading
telecom conference organizer by forging itself an original and innovative
image. Today Upper Side has earned itself a reputation of excellence,
specializing in specific, avant-garde themes pertaining to the Internet.
It was the first group to propose conferences dedicated to IP QoS, MPLS,
IPsec, SIP and so forth. By doing so, Upper Side has delivered frontline
coverage of the major developments of the IP protocol. Fore more information
about Upper Side contact Rémi Scavenius, Partner Director, at
+33.1.53466380 or via e-mail at remi.scavenius@wanadoo.fr.
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