Examples of Research and Innovation Made Possible by NLR
AtlanticWave: NLR provides the backbone for AtlanticWave, an international peering fabric enabling collaboration between researchers in Canada, the U.S., Caribbean and South America.
CAMERA: The Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis, leverages NLR infrastructure to build state-of-the-art, computational resources and to develop software tools to decipher the genetic code of communities of microbial life in world oceans.
CENIC / University of New Mexico: NLR and members University of New Mexico and the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) provided the ultra high-speed network linking a DreamWorks/Cerelink digital media studio in Rio Rancho with Hollywood. The demonstration, on February 17, showcased how large, 3D animation files can be created in New Mexico and delivered quickly, securely and reliably to Hollywood studios.
NLR arranged for a 1-Gbps FrameNet circuit between the New Mexico and the Los Angeles points-of-presence (PoPs). New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson referred to the demonstration as a "major advance in digital media production."
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ESnet: NLR’s coast-to-coast, high-performance backbone network enables ESnet, or the Energy Science Network, of the Department of Energy (DOE), to support the high-bandwidth projects of thousands of DOE researchers and collaborators around the country.
GENI: For GENI, the Global Environment for Network Innovations, NLR makes available up to 30 Gbps of capacity on three different networks, FrameNet and CWave at Layer 2 and PacketNet at Layer 3. GENI researchers utilize these NLR networks as the platform for a wide range of advance research, including in communications, networking, distributed systems, cyber-security and networked services and applications.
NASA: NLR provides the 10-Gigabit Ethernet connectivity between NASA centers and facilities around the U.S., including Sunnyvale to Washington, D.C. and Washington, D.C. to Atlanta.
Open Cloud Consortium: The Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) uses NLR as its wide-area testbed network, supporting the development of standards for cloud computing and frameworks for interoperating between clouds. Using the NLR infrastructure, the OCC recently demonstrated the first cloud designed for HIPAA-compliant applications and the first wide area cloud that uses a wide area 10 Gbps network.
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Optiputer: Dedicated, high-capacity NLR circuits link research teams in Southern California and Chicago who are pioneering a radically new, distributed cyberinfrastructure based on optical networking, not computers, to support data-intensive scientific collaboration. Scientists who are generating terabytes and petabytes of data will be able to interactively visualize, analyze, and correlate their data from multiple storage sites connected to optical networks.
Pacific Wave: NLR and its partners are making possible high-speed, high-performance connections between researchers around the Pacific Rim, bridging the gap between national and regional networks. NLR is helping to create, deploy and operate an advanced, extensible peering facility along the entire US Pacific Coast. Recent applications included a demonstration of “4K” video teleconferencing, which has 4x the resolution of HDTV, between Tokyo, San Diego and Chicago.
TeraGrid: NLR provides the ultra-high speed, high capacity backbone infrastructure for TeraGrid, the world's largest, most comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research. Thousands of researchers around the country take advantage of the over 100 discipline-specific databases, high-performance computers and high-end experimental facilities interconnected via TeraGrid under a major National Science Foundation grant.
UltraScience Net: NLR is the vital, high-speed, high-capacity link between Sunnyvale, CA and Chicago for UltraScience Net, an experimental research testbed funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science and managed by Oak Ridge National Laboratories. UltraScienceNet develops hybrid optical networking and associated technologies to meet the unprecedented demands of large-scale science applications.