Avici Systems Accepts BTexact IP Core Router Challenge
Tuesday March 12, 8:23 am Eastern Time
Confident It Can Provide Carriers With Levels of Reliability, Scalability and Dependability Not Possible With Legacy Routers
NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2002-- Avici Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: AVCI - news), 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(TM) 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(TM) architecture and robust IPriori(TM) 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
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