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NLR Resources for NSF proposals -- an open letter
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:26:24 -0500
Ipers, please pass this on to your network research associates and ask them to pass it on to their colleagues. Dave An Open Letter to the Network Research Community Dear Colleague, As you likely are aware, the National Science Foundation recently announced the Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) solicitation (NSF 05-505). It seeks to develop and sustain science and technology advances needed to create next-generation networks, increase our fundamental understanding of large, complex, heterogeneous networks, and continue the evolution of existing networks. Responses are due on January 21, 2005. For more information, the solicitation is described in <http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05505/nsf05505.htm>http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/ 2005/nsf05505/nsf05505.htm. We at the National Lambda Rail (NLR) project would like to make researchers aware of the facilities that NLR can offer in support of their research. NLR is a nationwide research network built on multiple optical channels interconnected at several points of presence (POPs). For details on the network, we encourage you to visit our web site (www.nlr.net). One key feature of the network is our ability to allocate individual channels (lambdas) to particular research activities. Indeed, you can place your own equipment in our POPs and build your own network, using lambdas we allocate to you. This flexibility is intended to offer you a large range of research possibilities, from experiments with new optical equipment, to building networks customized for a particular application. While NLR is happy to participate in any research activity that seems likely to lead to innovation in data networking, NLR is best-suited to research where there's a clear need for dedicated bandwidth or where the experimentation is so close to the research edge, that failures will be common, and thus keeping the experiments isolated from operational networks is desirable. NLR is happy to collaborate with researchers at any time during their research. So you can approach us after you've received research funding from NSF (or any other research source). However, if you would like a letter from NLR that says we will give you resources if your work is funded, we ask that you send us a two page description of your proposed research, why it would benefit NLR resources, and what NLR resources (number of lambdas, where the lambdas would be, how long you would need the lambdas) to Dave Farber, the Chair of the NNRC -- dave () farber net. We'll seek to reply in a week or less.. Sincerely yours, The NLR Network Research Committee Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin-Madison Dan Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara Javad Boroumand, Cisco Systems Hank Dardy, Naval Research Laboratory Constantinos Dovrolis, Georgia Tech David Farber, Carnegie Mellon University (chair) Gerald Faulhaber, University of Pennsylvania Paul Francis, Cornell University Larry Landweber, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Internet2 (ex officio) Jason Leigh, University of Illinois-Chicago Steven Low, Caltech Mike O'Dell, unaffiliated Phil Papadopoulos, University of California, San Diego Craig Partridge, BBN Technologies Guru Parulkar, National Science Foundation Harry Perros, North Carolina State University ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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