[IP] NLR Networking Research Council Announcemen]
WORLD-RENOWNED NETWORKING RESEARCHERS TO PROMOTE EXPERIMENTS
LEADING TO FUTURE GENERATION NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES
Cypress, Calif. – November 15, 2005 – National LambdaRail (NLR), a
consortium of leading U.S. research universities and private sector
technology companies that is deploying a nationwide optical, Ethernet
and IP networking infrastructure, has gathered a team of leading
researchers and technologists to guide and direct NLR’s support of
networking research. The NLR Networking Research Council (NNRC) is
chaired by David J. Farber, NLR’s Chief Scientist and a distinguished
professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
NLR provides researchers unprecedented control over a nationwide
network infrastructure with up to 40 individual lightpaths—each of
which can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second and be used to
deploy dedicated side-by-side, but physically and operationally
separate, production and experimental networks. NLR has committed to
devoting half of this capacity to support networking research, with
the goal of bringing together networking research communities to
solve complex challenges of architecture, end-to-end performance and
scaling for future-generation networks.
“National LambdaRail provides networking researchers a unique set of
resources for exploring revolutionary new approaches to networking,”
said David Farber, chair of the NLR Network Research Council. “It is
increasingly clear that we need to look beyond incremental
improvements to address challenges facing the Internet, and NLR
allows us to do that in ways that wouldn’t otherwise be possible.”
In addition to providing NLR with overall guidance relating to its
support of networking research, the NNRC will provide principles,
policies and procedures for the use of the NLR infrastructure for
networking research purposes, and will promote the extensive and
active use of the NLR infrastructure by networking researchers.
Craig Partridge, Chief Scientist at BBN Technologies and a member of
the NNRC, said, "Two guiding principles in networking research are
that good solutions are those that work over wide area networks and
that, to make progress, one has to be willing to risk occasionally
breaking the network. The expense of building a big network means
that we rarely get to build big networks that can fail. NLR's great
gift is it gives researchers a wide area network where they can take
risks."
In addition to David Farber, members of the NNRC include:
+ Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin, Madison
+ Dan Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara
+ Javad Boroumand, Cisco Systems
+ Hank Dardy, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
+ Constantinos Dovorlis, Georgia Tech
+ Gerald Faulhaber, University of Pennsylvania
+ Paul Francis, Cornell University
+ Dewayne Hendricks, Dandin Group
+ Larry Landweber, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Internet2
+ Jason Leigh, University of Illinois-Chicago
+ Steven Low, Caltech
+ Mike O’Dell, New Enterprise Associates
+ Phil Papadopoulos, University of California, San Diego
+ Craig Partridge, BBN Technologies
+ Harry Perros, North Carolina State University
The NLR infrastructure is already supporting cutting-edge uses of
optical networking capabilities in research and education such as
those being demonstrated at this week’s SC|05 conference in Seattle,
Wash., including the National Science Foundation-supported Extensible
Terascale Facility and OptIPuter projects, the U.S. Department of
Energy’s UltraScience project, CENIC and the Pacific Northwest
Gigapop’s Pacific Wave project, and Internet2’s Hybrid Optical Packet
Infrastructure (HOPI) project.
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About National LambdaRail
National LambdaRail, Inc. (NLR) is a major initiative of U.S.
research universities and private sector technology companies to
provide a national scale infrastructure for research and
experimentation in networking technologies and applications. NLR
puts the control, the power and the promise of experimental network
infrastructure in the hands of our nation’s scientists and
researchers. Visit http://www.nlr.net for more information.
Contact
Greg Wood
National LambdaRail
ghwood@xxxxxxx
703-625-3917
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