[IP] NATIONAL LAMBDARAIL LAUNCHES TRANSIT AND PEERING PROJECT
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From: Tom West <tom.west@xxxxxxx>
Date: April 20, 2006 3:04:47 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Press Release: NATIONAL LAMBDARAIL LAUNCHES TRANSIT AND
PEERING PROJECT
Dave,
I'm excited to announce this latest step in developing our national
network infrastructure. Please share this with your colleagues.
Tom West
President, National LambdaRail
NATIONAL LAMBDARAIL LAUNCHES TRANSIT AND PEERING PROJECT
Five NLR Members Begin Project to Improve Network Performance and
Reduce Costs of Internet Services
Cypress, Calif. - April 20, 2006 - National LambdaRail (NLR), a
consortium of leading U.S. research universities and private sector
technology companies, today announced that it has inaugurated a
project to provision an intelligently managed nationwide peering and
transit program. The initial participants include NLR members: the
Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC),
Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP), Mid-Atlantic Terascale Partnership
(MATP), Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP) and Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center (PSC).
Called National TransitRail, the project aims to use commodity and
peering traffic to improve network performance and reduce the overall
cost of Internet services to NLR members. In keeping with NLR's
distributive management philosophy, Pacific Wave is managing this
project on behalf of NLR. Pacific Wave will utilize expertise
developed in its state-of-the-art West Coast distributed peering
exchange facility that also provides US-based exchange services for
Pacific Rim research and education networks.
Utilizing NLR's nationwide network fiber and optronics infrastructure
at layer 2 and layer 3, the initial NLR participants are working to
efficiently direct traffic as quickly as possible to the target
network/organization, reducing the number of 'hops' required for the
data to get to its destination. The team is also investigating the
balance between peering sessions and transit routes at geographically
dispersed locations.
"NLR's national footprint and large traffic flows will help drive
many larger-scale peering relationships over time," said Tom West,
NLR President. "We believe that it is time for the research and
education community to further exploit the reliability and redundancy
that a national peering and transit infrastructure affords. This is
the first step in that direction."
"CENIC and PNWGP have been engaged in providing peering services to
their respective organizations through our Pacific Wave partnership,"
noted Jim Dolgonas, President and Chief Operating Officer of CENIC.
"NLR's National TransitRail makes it possible to expand this success
on a national scale."
"This project offers our FRGP NLR members a new way to increase
network performance while, at the same time, lowering costs over
time," said Marla Meehl, Manager of the FRGP and networking at
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). "Services
like National TransitRail make our investment in NLR further benefit
the FRGP members and their thousands of users in Colorado, Utah and
Wyoming."
The first phase of the project is expected to run for 9 months.
Then, NLR plans to broaden participation to include all interested
NLR members.
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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.
About Pacific Wave
Pacific Wave is a joint project between the Corporation for Education
Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and the Pacific Northwest
Gigapop (PNWGP), and is operated in collaboration with the University
of Southern California and the University of Washington. Pacific Wave
enhances research and education network capabilities by increasing
network efficiency, reducing latency, increasing throughput, and
reducing costs. Visit http://www.pacificwave.net for more information.
Contact
Concordia Chen
Concordia@xxxxxxxxx
760-510-8406 ext. 5
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