[IP] The Unique Benefits and Characteristics of NLR
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From: NLR News <editor@xxxxxxx>
Date: June 21, 2006 3:58:33 PM EDT
To: nlr-all@xxxxxxx
Subject: The Unique Benefits and Characteristics of NLR
Reply-To: editor@xxxxxxx
In recent weeks I have been asked by several researchers, educators
and NLR members/participants--“What unique benefits and
characteristics differentiate NLR from previous R&E networking
efforts and from those being announced and launched today?”
On behalf of NLR I would like to make this document available to the
whole research and education community with the hope it answers these
queries and shows the uniqueness of NLR. Please feel free to share
this email summary with others. The full version can be found on the
NLR website at http://www.nlr.net/newsroom/docs/benefits.php.
This document briefly describes the unique benefits and
characteristics of NLR. In essence it states that NLR is about:
Services to the researchers in the research and education community
Member ownership of all the assets and management/operation of the
networks
Unconstrained policies about how the NLR infrastructure is used
User empowerment
Enabling leading edge research and uses of experimental technologies
Full integration of production IP services
Regional Optical Networks as the pillars of connectivity
Strategic partnerships and collaborative relationships with industry
and federal agencies and within academia
Partnering with international and national NREN's to enable research
on a global basis
The bottom line is the NLR was created by the R&E community, for the
R&E community, and is owned and controlled by the R&E community. NLR
is passionately committed to meeting the diverse and sometimes
eclectic needs of this community today and in the future.
We believe the researchers in the community need to be in the
driver’s seat in defining, deploying, and providing the unique needs
of our various constituencies. We are committed to this as a
fundamental principle. National LambdaRail is the Research and
Education Community’s OWNED, OPERATED and TOTALLY CONTROLLED Network
Infrastructure.
Tom West, President
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National LambdaRail (NLR)
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The Unique Benefits and Characteristics of NLR
National LambdaRail (NLR) is a major initiative of U.S. research
universities, regional networking organizations, and private sector
technology companies providing a state-of-the-art national scale
networking infrastructure. NLR exists both to serve “big science” and
other discipline-based research initiatives in advancing knowledge
and understanding and to support network research in developing new
networking technologies and capabilities.
The NLR 11,000 mile nationwide infrastructure, already fully
operational, enables the simultaneous deployment of multiple networks
for experimental and production purposes. In addition, a
comprehensive range of services is currently available to users.
Listed below are the unique characteristics enabling NLR to provide
the research and education community with the powerful, flexible, and
scalable networks that are increasingly critical to successful
collaborative efforts across the country and around the globe.
NLR Serves the Research Community
NLR is by researchers and for researchers, allowing the actual users
of this infrastructure to design networks to their needs and
specifications. And history has demonstrated that networks built to
provide advanced services to researchers will be immensely beneficial
to educators, students, and other members of society. [more]
NLR Owns Its Infrastructure
NLR is owned by its members, who are also its users. These members
make the rules. [more]
NLR’s Uses of the Infrastructure are Unconstrained
NLR members determine the appropriate uses, applications, and
services. [more]
NLR Focuses on User-Empowered Networking Resources and Capacity
This nation’s scientists and researchers can have greater impact on
national research agendas because NLR puts the control, the power and
the promise of the uses of networking in their hands. [more]
NLR Enables Leading-Edge and Experimental Technologies
Researchers and educators can elect to create, deploy and manage
their own leading-edge capabilities over NLR or to let NLR operate
and manage leading-edge services for them. [more]
NLR Operates a Revolutionary Integrated Layer 3 Facility
The entire research & education community benefits from the
revolutionary integration of Layer 3 Internet Services, which
provides powerful research, financial, support and performance
benefits. [more]
NLR is Guided by the Regional Optical Network Organizations
Regional Optical Networks (RONs), as majority NLR owners, provide the
technical direction necessary to guarantee end-to-end interconnection
and interoperability of the RONs via NLR, and to support data
intensive applications that require persistent large data flows, real-
time visualization and collaboration, and/or remote instrumentation
scheduling. RONs work locally with their members, but think globally
to ensure interoperability across the NLR fabric. [more]
NLR Provides Diverse Partnership and Strategic Relationship
Opportunities
Researchers from a broad range of organizations can join forces to
facilitate end-to-end networking in support of strategic research
initiatives using the forum that NLR and the RONs have created. [more]
NLR is Developing Strategic Relationships with International and
National Network Organizations
Increasingly, science is global and independent of geographic
boundaries. The linkages of NLR to sister networks around the globe
and connections back to members RONs enable researchers throughout
the US to be active participants in major research initiatives,
regardless of their location. [more]
Summary
The Research and Education Community OWNS, OPERATES, and TOTALLY
CONTROLS the National LambdaRail Network infrastructure, to ensure
that the users provide themselves with what they want, when they want
it, for as long as it takes. [more]
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