[IP] NATIONAL LAMBDARAIL COMPLETES REVOLUTIONARY NATIONWIDE ADVANCED NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE
NATIONAL LAMBDARAIL COMPLETES REVOLUTIONARY NATIONWIDE ADVANCED
NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE
Optical, Ethernet and IP Networking Capabilities Offer Networking and
Scientific Research Communities Unique Opportunities, Capabilities
Cypress, Calif. – February 20, 2006 – National LambdaRail (NLR), a
consortium of leading U.S. research universities and private sector
technology companies, today announced that it has completed
deployment of a nationwide advanced optical, Ethernet and IP
networking network infrastructure on more than 15,000 miles of fiber
optic cable across the United States.
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. The infrastructure is
the result of over three years of work and nearly $100 million in
funding by members.
"The fully operational National LambdaRail infrastructure marks an
unprecedented milestone for the U.S. research community," said Tracy
Futhey, NLR Board Chair. "For the first time, a nationwide networking
infrastructure is owned and operated by the research and education
community, giving scientists flexible access to advanced networking
capabilities and enabling experiments and collaborations across
geographic barriers."
NLR's WaveNet, FrameNet, and PacketNet services are already in use by
more than a dozen cutting-edge research projects, including the
National Science Foundation-supported Extensible Terascale Facility
and OptIPuter projects; the U.S. Department of Energy’s UltraScience
Net project; CENIC and the Pacific Northwest Gigapop’s Pacific Wave
project; the CAMERA project led by CalIT2, the Venter Institute and
UCSD's CEOA; the University of Virginia-led CHEETAH project; as well
as Internet2’s Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure (HOPI) project.
"NLR provides a unique and invaluable resource for scientists
undertaking ambitious research that demands the highest performance,
most flexible networking available," said Dr. William R. Wing, a
researcher in the Networking Research Group of Oak Ridge National
Laboratory’s Computer Science and Mathematics Division. " The NLR
infrastructure provides unsurpassed breadth of services and
capabilities to researchers in the United States, outstripping those
available to many of their colleagues around the world."
NLR is committed to promoting the extensive and active use of its
infrastructure and resources by diverse groups within the scientific
and networking research communities. In addition to committing to
provide up to half of its infrastructure to network research, it has
established Network Research and Scientific Research advisory
councils consisting of leaders from a wide range of scientific
disciplines.
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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
+1-703-625-3917
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