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>NATIONAL LAMBDARAIL COMPLETES REVOLUTIONARY NATIONWIDE ADVANCED
>NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE
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>Optical, Ethernet and IP Networking Capabilities Offer Networking and
>Scientific Research Communities Unique Opportunities, Capabilities
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>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.
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>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.
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>"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.
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>"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."
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>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.