TheCoveredCall.com: Avici deploys world's first terabit router
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Avici (NASDAQ: AVCI) announced that it is has deployed the world's first terabit
router 12-24 months ahead of competitors Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Juniper
Networks (NASDAQ: JNPR).
Currently CSCO owns 64%+ of the router market and JNPR 34%, but existing router
capacity using their products is filling up. Customers may now turn to next
generation terabit routers which AVCI owns with a 100% market share.
The biggest problem with AVCI business model is the existing tech slump which
clouds the news of its terabit router coup.
AVCI's current clients include the following:
AT&T (NYSE: T) provides voice, data and video communications services to large
and small businesses, consumers and government entities. AT&T and its
subsidiaries furnish domestic and international long distance, regional, local
and wireless communications services, cable television and Internet
communications services. AT&T also provides billing, directory and calling card
services to support its communications business. AT&T's primary lines of
business are business services, consumer services, broadband services and
wireless services. In addition, AT&T's other lines of business include network
management and professional services through AT&T Solutions and international
operations and ventures. In June 2000, AT&T completed the acquisition of
MediaOne Group. With the addition of MediaOne's 5 million cable subscribers,
AT&T becomes the country's largest cable operator, with about 16 million
customers on the systems it owns and operates, which pass nearly 28 million
American homes.
Enron Corp. (NYSE: ENE) is an energy and communications company. Enron's
operations are conducted through its subsidiaries and affiliates, which
principally are engaged in the transportation of natural gas through pipelines
to markets throughout the United States; the generation, transmission and
distribution of electricity to markets in the northwestern United States; the
marketing of natural gas, electricity and other commodities and related risk
management and finance services worldwide; the development, construction and
operation of power plants, pipelines and other energy related assets worldwide;
and the development of an intelligent network platform to provide bandwidth
management services and deliver high bandwidth applications. The Company also
offers broadband intermediation and content services development.
France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is a telecom operator that provides consumers,
businesses and telecommunications carriers with a full range of services,
including local, long-distance and international telephony, as well as data,
mobile telecommunications, Internet, cable television, broadcast and value-added
services. France Telecom has a network of approximately 34.1 million telephone
lines, including 3.6 million ISDN channels, connected to homes and businesses as
of December 31, 1999. France Telecom's Itineris GSM service had more than 10.1
million subscribers as of December 31, 1999. With respect to the Internet,
France Telecom's Wanadoo had over 1.2 million subscribers in France as of
January 31, 2000. For Internet portals, France Telecom had close to eight
million pages viewed per day in December 1999, through Wanadoo Voila, its
general-public portal, and other thematic and professional portals. France
Telecom also develops Internet content, including online games, directories and
itineraries.
Qwest Communications (NYSE: Q) is a leading broadband Internet communications
company. Qwest's services include Internet, multimedia, data and voice services
that are sold to business, consumer and government customers. Internet and
multimedia services include Internet Protocol (IP) enabled services such as
dedicated and dial up Internet access, web hosting, co-location access, voice
over IP, application hosting and mass storage services. Qwest also provides
high-volume voice and conventional private line services to other communications
providers, as well as to Internet service providers (ISPs), and other data
service companies.
Internet and multimedia services are being developed in alignment with existing
and anticipated market demand in partnership with leading information technology
companies, including IBM and Microsoft. In June 2000, the Company completed its
merger with U.S. West, Inc.
Williams Communications (NYSE: WCG) provides voice, data, Internet, and video
services to communications service providers. WCG also sells, installs, and
maintains equipment and network services that address the voice and data needs
of organizations. The Company conducts its business through three business
units: Network, Solutions, and Strategic Investments. In addition, WCG enters
into strategic alliances and has strategic relationships with communications
companies to secure long-term, high-capacity commitments for traffic on the
Williams network and to enhance its service offerings.
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. |
