NLR in the News
Government Asks Colleges to Enhance the Nation’s Internet Capacity
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 18, 2010
http://chronicle.com/article/Government-Asks-Colleges-to/64708/
NLR's president and CEO Glenn Ricart spoke with The Chronicle about the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan and the prominent role given to existing research and education networks including NLR in exploring how broadband can be extended to community anchor institutions across the country. Glenn mentioned that "the higher-education-networking community is being challenged to extend and serve community-anchor institutions." According to the article, "The benefits of extending academe's Internet umbrella are enormous, advocates say."
Supporters Call for Nationwide 'Community Network'
Internet Evolution, February 18, 2010
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=854&doc_id=188092&f_src=internetevolution_gnews
Article on the filing of comments with the FCC by NLR, Internet2 and 25 state and regional research and education networks advocating a Unified Community Anchor Network (UCAN). The fact that such a broad group is advocating for UCAN is very promising, according to the article, would cost much less than starting from scratch and the private sector hasn't been successful at addressing this void. "We recognize the historic opportunity here to better serve a broader community and that this will require unprecedented cooperation," according to Glenn Ricart, NLR's president and CEO
NLR, Internet2 on TelePresence at Joint Techs
TelePresence Options, February 08, 2010
http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/2010/02/nlr_internet2_on_telepresence/
Highlights and key links from the joint NLR-Internet2 presentation at the Joint Techs Conference on the new, unified Cisco TelePresence service for research and education.
Internet2, National LambdaRail Propose Ambitious Community Network
ConnectedPlanet, February 2, 2010
http://connectedplanetonline.com/IP-NGN/news/internet2-lamdarail-community-network-202/
"In reply comments about the National Broadband Plan due from the FCC later this year Internet2, National LamdaRail and 25 co-filers propose to create a "Unified Community Anchor Network" by extending their existing networks to community anchor institutions. "A UCAN does not need to be created—it needs to be completed," the organizations wrote in the filing, which argues that providing broadband to community anchors has been a market failure.
National LambdaRail Advocates for a Unified Community Anchor Network
HPCWire, February 1, 2010
http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/NLR-Advocates-the-Creation-of-a-Unified-Community-Anchor-Network-83264452.html
NLR and Internet2, along with 25 state and regional network groups, urge the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deploy a Unified Community Anchor Network (UCAN), which would bring broadband to all interested schools, community colleges, libraries, healthcare providers, public safety agencies and other ‘community anchor’ institutions across the country. Already interconnected, or capable of being interconnected, to over 30 state and regional networks, NLR offers its coast-to-coast, non-profit network as a basis for UCAN.
From Feast to Famine: Dark Fiber Gets Hard, And Expensive, to Find
InfoWorld, December 28, 2009
http://www.infoworld.com/t/tech-industry-analysis/top-underreported-tech-stories-2009-455?page=0,8
Interview with NLR President and CEO Glenn Ricart on the changing dynamics in the market for dark fiber, and implications for enterprise connectivity.
NLR Enables SC09 Bandwidth Challenge Winners
HPCWire, (December 11, 2009)
http://www.hpcwire.com/specialfeatures/sc09/offthewire/NLR-Helps-Enable-SC09-Bandwidth-Challenge-Winners-79067547.html
National LambdaRail Does SC09
Light Reading, (November 16, 2009)
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=184682
Research Networks Could Foretell Net's Future
Supercomm Daily News, (October 23, 2009)
http://supercommnews.com/features/research_networks_internet_102309/
An overview of how NLR and Internet2 are actively shaping what's possible, not only for research networks but for the Internet as well. Includes an interview with NLR's Director of Engineering and Operations Grover Browning on future trends, such as new tools enabling researchers to directly provision the networking resources they need, and blade servers or partitionable routers making possible much more efficient use of available capacity.
New Leader for Universities' High-Speed Network
The Chronicle of Higher Education, (October 5, 2009)
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/New-Leader-for-Universities/8345/
Appointment of NLR's new CEO, Glenn Ricart.
Some Broadband Projects Self-fund Without Stimulus
blog.telephonyonline.com, (September 25, 2009)
http://blog.telephonyonline.com/unfiltered/2009/09/25/some-broadband-projects-self-fund-without-stimulus/
NLR via Cornell University considered as broadband connection for New York's Ontario County.
LightRiver Deploys Next-Generation DWDM for National LambdaRail
Reuters, (July 29, 2009)
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS128938+29-Jul-2009+BW20090729
NLR has completed its significant infrastructure upgrade, further boosting the performance of the NLR backbone and setting the stage for total capacity increases beyond the current 400 gigabits per second (Gbps). LightRiver Technologies was a key partner in the deployment of the next-generation, multi-transport DWDM switches in 116 different physical locations across the U.S.
Benchmarking Your Cloud
HPCwire, (July 16, 2009)
http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Benchmarking-Your-Cloud-50976307.html?viewAll=y
NLR provides the 10-Gigabit Ethernet testbed for the Open Cloud Consortium's pioneering work around developing standards to compare the performance of computing clouds designed for data-intensive computing.
LambdaRail Wins Contract for US Networking to Support the LHC
International Science Grid This Week, (June 3, 2009)
http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1001845
NLR to provide ultra high-performance, fiber optic circuits which will enable researchers in the U.S. to participate in the next-generation experiments getting underway with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator located at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Universities Angle for Billions to Build Obama's Broadband Network
The Chronicle of Higher Education, (April 24, 2009)
http://chronicle.com/article/Universities-Angle-for-Bill/47209/
Highlights the joint white paper issued by NLR and other research and education groups, "Unleashing Waves of Innovation: Transformative Broadband for America's Future," arguing that higher ed is well poised to offer a solution to the search for an inclusive, national broadband network. For NLR news release and white paper, see: http://www.nlr.net/release.php?id=38
National LambdaRail Supercharges Infrastructure
HPCwire, (April 28, 2009)
http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/National-LambdaRail-Supercharges-Its-Infrastructure-43903062.html
This major upgrade to NLR's backbone was completed in record time with the assistance of the NLR community and partners.
Calit2 at UCSD Teams with Darkstrand
InsideHPC, (April 14, 2009)
http://insidehpc.com/2009/04/14/calit2-at-ucsd-teams-with-darkstrand/
NLR's business alliance partner Darkstrand announced a collaborative agreement with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to help enable corporations to initiate real-time, high performance computing projects with researchers at UCSD.