National LambdaRail Announces New Costs for Services
Individual Institutions, Research Project Groups May Now Join Directly, New Options for Native 100G and TelePresence
Cypress, CA, October 9, 2009 -- National LambdaRail (NLR), the coast-to-coast, high-performance network owned by the U.S. research and education community, announces its updated Costs for Services, effective immediately.
NLR is enabling individual institutions and research project groups to use NLR capacity for an affordable cost structure of only $70,000 and $25,000 per year respectively. This includes unlimited, shared use of non-dedicated circuits on NLR FrameNet (Layer 2). As a result, educators and researchers now have more choices and more affordable options for taking advantage of NLR's cutting-edge production and experimental networks. If they do not already belong to a regional optical network member of NLR, they may now work directly with NLR, also leveraging NLR's individualized research project support services.
NLR is also announcing today the availability of native 40-Gigabit Ethernet (GE) circuits
across NLR WaveNet, NLR's national, Layer 1 optical infrastructure. The NLR
backbone can support 100-GE alien waves today for users providing the equipment for
the wave. Cost for 100-GE support on the NLR backbone is now $18,002 per route
segment for Class A Sustaining Members, Individual Institution Participants or
Individual Research Project Groups. For Class B or Class C Members the cost is $24,315
per route segment. 100-GE circuits will be fully available on the NLR platform by
January 2011.
In addition, NLR is making highest-resolution video and audio technologies affordable to all categories of NLR members in order to further enable quality collaboration between researchers around the country and across the world. Class A Sustaining and Individual Institution Participant Members will enjoy as part of their membership access to NLR's TelePresence Exchange services based on Cisco TelePresence at no additional cost. For Class B and C Members the cost is a nominal $25,000 per year. NLR's TelePresence Exchange, the only telepresence exchange of any research and education network, can connect up to 12 different physical locations in a single session.
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About National LambdaRail (NLR)
Owned by the U.S. research and education community and dedicated to serving the needs of researchers and research groups, NLR is the innovation platform for a wide range of academic disciplines and public-private partnerships. NLR's coast-to-coast, high-performance network infrastructure offers unrestricted usage and bandwidth, a choice of cutting-edge network services and applications, and customized service for individual researchers and projects. For more information, please visit www.nlr.net.
Media Contact
Kristina Scott, NLR, 1-650-678-9034, kscott@nlr.net
