Research Support
Experiments Support Services
Provides end-to-end support for the research community's use of NLR, with a focus on networking research experiments. Learn more about Experiments Support Services.
NLR Network Operations Center
The NLR Network Operations Center, provided by CENIC at its headquarters in La Mirada, CA, provides continuous, 24x365 monitoring of NLR's L1, optical network, and coordinates restoration and repair of any failure of the fiber infrastructure or the optical multiplexing equipment. It also provides rapid and flexible response to wavelength provisioning orders, and reports on wave and fiber availability and performance. Visit the NLR Network Operations Center.
Testbed Networks: Provided by NLR
NLR provides the ultra-high performance platform for several leading testbed networks pioneering advances in emerging networking technologies and applications, including the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI), the Open Cloud Testbed, the OpenFlow Consortium, and VINI, a Virtual Network Infrastructure. Learn more, also about how researchers and research groups can take advantage of these NLR capabilities.
NLR Answers on Video
Learn about NLR, NLR’s service offerings, network features and capabilities and how NLR can help make your research project successful from NLR network engineers and staff.
GENI
NLR provides researchers conducting experiments under the auspices of GENI, the Global Environment for Network Innovations, with a wide range of support services, and GENI relies on NLR for its national, high-speed optical infrastructure. Learn more about GENI and NLR resources and support.