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Title: National LambdaRail
URL: http://www.nationallambdarail.org Keywords: Status: alpha "National LambdaRail (NLR) is a major initiative of U.S. research universities and private sector technology companies to provide a national scale infrastructure for research and experimentation in networking technologies and applications ... For the first time, the research community has acquired a national dark fiber footprint that can concurrently support network research at the optical, switching, routing, middleware, and application layers. NLR is lighting the first fiber pair with an optical Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) network capable of transmitting up to 40 simultaneous light wavelengths (lambdas or waves) each at 10 gigabits per second (Gbps). NLR is also deploying a switched Ethernet network and a routed IP network over the optical DWDM network. Combined, these networks enable the allocation of independent, dedicated, deterministic ultra-high performance network services to applications, groups, networked scientific apparatus and instruments, and research projects. The optical waves enable building networking research testbeds at switching and routing layers with ability to re-direct real user traffic over them for testing purposes. For optical layer research testbeds additional dark fiber pairs are available on the national footprint." Follow up:
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