NLR Networking Research Council Announcemen]

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

WORLD-RENOWNED NETWORKING RESEARCHERS TO PROMOTE EXPERIMENTS
LEADING TO FUTURE GENERATION NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES


Cypress, Calif. – November 15, 2005 – National LambdaRail (NLR), a  
consortium of leading U.S. research universities and private sector  
technology companies that is deploying a nationwide optical, Ethernet  
and IP networking infrastructure, has gathered a team of leading  
researchers and technologists to guide and direct NLR’s support of  
networking research. The NLR Networking Research Council (NNRC) is  
chaired by David J. Farber, NLR’s Chief Scientist and a distinguished  
professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

NLR provides researchers unprecedented control over a nationwide  
network infrastructure with up to 40 individual lightpaths—each of  
which can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second and be used to  
deploy dedicated side-by-side, but physically and operationally  
separate, production and experimental networks. NLR has committed to  
devoting half of this capacity to support networking research, with  
the goal of bringing together networking research communities to  
solve complex challenges of architecture, end-to-end performance and  
scaling for future-generation networks.

“National LambdaRail provides networking researchers a unique set of  
resources for exploring revolutionary new approaches to networking,”  
said David Farber, chair of the NLR Network Research Council. “It is  
increasingly clear that we need to look beyond incremental  
improvements to address challenges facing the Internet, and NLR  
allows us to do that in ways that wouldn’t otherwise be possible.”

In addition to providing NLR with overall guidance relating to its  
support of networking research, the NNRC will provide principles,  
policies and procedures for the use of the NLR infrastructure for  
networking research purposes, and will promote the extensive and  
active use of the NLR infrastructure by networking researchers.

Craig Partridge, Chief Scientist at BBN Technologies and a member of  
the NNRC, said, "Two guiding principles in networking research are  
that good solutions are those that work over wide area networks and  
that, to make progress, one has to be willing to risk occasionally  
breaking the network. The expense of building a big network means  
that we rarely get to build big networks that can fail.  NLR's great  
gift is it gives researchers a wide area network where they can take  
risks."

In addition to David Farber, members of the NNRC include:

+ Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin, Madison
+ Dan Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara
+ Javad Boroumand, Cisco Systems
+ Hank Dardy, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
+ Constantinos Dovorlis, Georgia Tech
+ Gerald Faulhaber, University of Pennsylvania
+ Paul Francis, Cornell University
+ Dewayne Hendricks, Dandin Group
+ Larry Landweber, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Internet2
+ Jason Leigh, University of Illinois-Chicago
+ Steven Low, Caltech
+ Mike O’Dell, New Enterprise Associates
+ Phil Papadopoulos, University of California, San Diego
+ Craig Partridge, BBN Technologies
+ Harry Perros, North Carolina State University

The NLR infrastructure is already supporting cutting-edge uses of  
optical networking capabilities in research and education such as  
those being demonstrated at this week’s SC|05 conference in Seattle,  
Wash., including the National Science Foundation-supported Extensible  
Terascale Facility and OptIPuter projects, the U.S. Department of  
Energy’s UltraScience project, CENIC and the Pacific Northwest  
Gigapop’s Pacific Wave project, and Internet2’s Hybrid Optical Packet  
Infrastructure (HOPI) project.

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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 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.

Contact
Greg Wood
National LambdaRail
ghwood () nlr net
703-625-3917


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