Stories about: Avici Systems

Nortel Networks has yet another IP router play and this time it thinks it has a winner.

Nortel Networks Corp. has asked Avici Systems Inc. to be its dance partner again in the IP core router ball. These two broke off a courtship almost five years ago when Nortel married router and Ethernet switch siren Bay Networks.

Executive power starts with personal integrity. Who has it? That's one question I posed to a group of venture capitalists and executive recruiters recently when I asked them to help me build an ultimate network industry "Dream Team."

Terabit router vendor Avici Systems Inc. this week posted third quarter results that improved upon year ago and previous quarter numbers.

Avici Systems Inc. this week unveiled software designed to reduce the amount of time its routers take to recover from a network disruption.

Alcatel SA this week announced a definitive agreement to acquire TiMetra Inc., a privately held maker of edge routers, for US$150 million in stock.

The worldwide router market declined by as much as 32 percent in 2002, according to recently released market share data.

Avici Systems Inc. posted fourth-quarter 2002 results generally in line with Wall Street expectations, yet the full year loss was larger than anticipated.

Alcatel SA and Chiaro Networks Monday separately became the latest entrants -- or reentrants, in Alcatel's case -- in the core router market, an arena with high barriers to entry, such as product development cost, long sales cycles, two entrenched and dominant players, and sharply reduced customer spending.

IP routing will never be so reliable that carriers can eliminate redundant routers, according to the founder and CTO of Juniper Networks.

The MPLS Forum on Monday will announce that it is conducting the largest Multi-protocol Label Switching interoperability demo to date at Supercomm 2002 in Atlanta next month.