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Corporate Profile for Avici Systems, dated 8/6/99.


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Published Date:     8/6/99

Company Name:       Avici Systems

Address:            101 Billerica Avenue
                    N. Billerica, MA  01862

Main Telephone
 Number:            978-964-2000

Internet Home
 Page Address
  (URL)             www.avici.com

Chief Executive
 Officer:           Surya Panditi

Chief Financial
 Officer:           Ralph Goldwasser

Public Relations
 Contact:           Cathy Caldeira/LNS Communications

Business number:    617-577-9777

E-Mail Address:     ccaldeira@lnscom.com

Industry:           Network hardware


Company description:

Avici The Avici (sometimes Avichi) Hell is considered to be among the lowest realms of Hell within Buddhism. People reborn into this Hell have generally committed one or more of the Five Grave Offenses:
  • Intentionally murdering one's father ,mother
 Systems Inc. is the premier developer of revolutionary, next-generation Internet backbone (communications, networking) Internet backbone - High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic.

These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges.
 platforms to serve as the basis for speed-of-light networks of the future. Its technology offers the following: an unequaled level of scalability How much a system can be expanded. See scalable.

scalability - How well a solution to some problem will work when the size of the problem increases.

For example, a central server of some kind with ten clients may perform adequately but with a thousand clients it
, throughput The speed with which a computer processes data. It is a combination of internal processing speed, peripheral speeds (I/O) and the efficiency of the operating system and other system software all working together.

1.
 for native TCP/IP-based Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks.  at 10,000 the speed of existing architecture and roughly 1/10th the cost, high-port density and optical integration with direct connection to dense wave division multiplexors, and class-of-service support giving carriers, ISPs and others a way to sell services "yield management" style.
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