National LambdaRail (NLR) and CANARIE Inc. Partner to Expand Networks, Promote International Research Collaboration

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: September 13, 2007 8:04:00 PM EDT
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] National LambdaRail (NLR) and CANARIE Inc.  
Partner to Expand Networks, Promote International Research Collaboration

From: NLR News <editor () nlr net>
Date: September 13, 2007 1:39:29 PM PDT
To: NLR News <news () nlr net>
Subject: [NLR-News] National LambdaRail (NLR) and CANARIE Inc.  
Partner to Expand Networks, Promote International Research Collaboration

Cypress, Calif. and Ottawa, Canada – September 12, 2007 – National  
LambdaRail (NLR), a dedicated national network infrastructure serving  
U.S. research and higher-education, and CANARIE, Canada's advanced  
network development organization, announced today they have agreed to  
partner to expand each other's network infrastructure and further  
enable international research and collaboration.

The agreement will expand NLR members' access in the Northeastern  
U.S., connecting Boston and New York to Chicago through Canada, and  
provide an alternate path between western and central Canada through  
the U.S. for CANARIE users. CANARIE's connectivity over NLR was made  
operational yesterday. The expanded NLR network, over CANARIE, will  
be fully operational by the end of the year.

"This is the first of several announcements National LambdaRail will  
be making regarding the expansion of our network and the arrival of  
new partners and participants," said Tom West, CEO of National  
LambdaRail. This relationship with CANARIE is a keystone to our  
linking researchers throughout North America."

Continued West, "The telecommunications sector is experiencing  
resurgence. Many of the 'dark' areas of unused networks are being  
used again, and there is increasing competition for bandwidth among  
public and private sectors worldwide. It is becoming a scarcer  
commodity every day, and as a result NLR is becoming more valuable  
every day for additional partners and organizations that could  
greatly benefit by having access to a privately owned, dedicated high- 
speed network infrastructure."

"Increasingly, research depends upon the ability to share, manipulate  
and analyze large amounts of data in real time. This expansion of our  
infrastructure will give researchers even more opportunities to work  
together and accelerate the achievement of results," said Andrew  
Bjerring, President and CEO of CANARIE.

About National LambdaRail National LambdaRail, Inc. (NLR) is a major  
initiative of U.S. research universities and private sector  
technology companies to provide a national scale, 11,000-mile  
infrastructure for research and experimentation in networking  
technologies and applications. NLR puts the control, the power and  
the promise of experimental network infrastructure in the hands of  
our nation's scientists and researchers. Visit http://www.nlr.net for  
more information.

About CANARIE CANARIE is Canada's advanced network organization, a  
not-for-profit corporation funded by Industry Canada to facilitate  
the development and use of next-generation research networks and the  
applications and services that run on them. CANARIE promotes  
collaboration among key sectors and partners with innovators around  
the world, and in so doing stimulates innovation and growth and helps  
to deliver economic, social and cultural benefits to all Canadians.  
The CANARIE Network is Canada's national research and education  
network. CANARIE positions Canada as a global leader in advanced  
networking, and is supported by its members, project partners, and  
the Government of Canada. For more information, visit www.canarie.ca


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