National LambdaRail (NLR) Delivers 40G, Cisco's TelePresence and 18 10-GE circuits at Supercomputing 2009 Conference
Portland, OR, November 16, 2009 -- National LambdaRail (NLR), the coast-to-coast, high-performance network owned by the research and education community, announces its broad-ranging contributions to Supercomputing 2009 (SC09), the world's premier conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis held this week in Portland, Oregon.
NLR is providing a 40-Gigabits per second (40G) wave over a production network to this year's event, as well as the only Cisco TelePresence meeting room, and 18 10-Gigabit Ethernet (GE) circuits serving 13 research organizations collaborating with more than three dozen other research groups from 10 countries.
"At NLR, we're committed to serving as the enabling platform for the most advanced research and experimentation," said Glenn Ricart, president and CEO, NLR. "We're delighted to be able to support innovative use of high bandwidth from so many leading players."
The 40G NLR wave originates at an NLR PacketNet router in Seattle, interconnecting to metro fiber in Portland before continuing to the show floor at the Oregon Convention Center and terminating in the core of the network infrastructure supporting SC09, SCinet. Several prominent research organizations will be utilizing the 40G wave for their demonstrations at Supercomputing, including the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Korea Institute of Science and Information (KISTI).
This past summer NLR demonstrated 40G alien waves on a 1581-kilometer span between Sunnyvale and Seattle. 40G is available on NLR's national footprint for $41,624 per route segment for Class A Members, Individual Institution Participants and Research Project Groups, based on NLR's most recent Costs for Services 
(PDF - 36 KB) announced last month. In addition, alien wave 100G services are available on the NLR platform.
NLR is also hosting Supercomputing's only Cisco TelePresence meeting room. Conference participants will be able to participate first hand in the integrated, high-definition video and spacial audio of Cisco TelePresence that delivers the characteristics of a face-to-face meeting, creating a lifelike collaboration experience. Visitors to the NLR booth, #1855, will be able to dial-up, literally with the touch of a single button, a number of institutions including Indiana University, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) over the NLR TelePresence Exchange.
A schedule of TelePresence demonstrations (PDF - 56KB) is available at NLR's booth or here (PDF - 56KB). NLR is the only research and education network in the world with its own TelePresence Exchange and NLR pioneered the first international and first multi-point sessions over a research and education network.
The 18 10-GE circuits carry an assortment of dedicated specific projects as well as shared circuits used for many organizations' NLR FrameNet (Layer 2) and NLR PacketNet (Layer 3) traffic to and from the show. Research groups using the 10-GE circuits include: Caltech, KISTI, the Laboratory for Advanced Computing, the High-Performance Digital Media Network (HPDMnet), NASA, the National Center for Data Mining, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan, the Texas Advanced Computing Center and the University of Tokyo.
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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
