The Unique Benefits and Characteristics of NLR

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: NLR News <editor () nlr net>
Date: June 21, 2006 3:58:33 PM EDT
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Subject: The Unique Benefits and Characteristics of NLR
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In recent weeks I have been asked by several researchers, educators  
and NLR members/participants--“What unique benefits and  
characteristics differentiate NLR from previous R&E networking  
efforts and from those being announced and launched today?”

On behalf of NLR I would like to make this document available to the  
whole research and education community with the hope it answers these  
queries and shows the uniqueness of NLR. Please feel free to share  
this email summary with others. The full version can be found on the  
NLR website at http://www.nlr.net/newsroom/docs/benefits.php.

This document briefly describes the unique benefits and  
characteristics of NLR. In essence it states that NLR is about:

Services to the researchers in the research and education community
Member ownership of all the assets and management/operation of the  
networks
Unconstrained policies about how the NLR infrastructure is used
User empowerment
Enabling leading edge research and uses of experimental technologies
Full integration of production IP services
Regional Optical Networks as the pillars of connectivity
Strategic partnerships and collaborative relationships with industry  
and federal agencies and within academia
Partnering with international and national NREN's to enable research  
on a global basis
The bottom line is the NLR was created by the R&E community, for the  
R&E community, and is owned and controlled by the R&E community. NLR  
is passionately committed to meeting the diverse and sometimes  
eclectic needs of this community today and in the future.

We believe the researchers in the community need to be in the  
driver’s seat in defining, deploying, and providing the unique needs  
of our various constituencies. We are committed to this as a  
fundamental principle. National LambdaRail is the Research and  
Education Community’s OWNED, OPERATED and TOTALLY CONTROLLED Network  
Infrastructure.

Tom West, President
twest () nlr net
National LambdaRail (NLR)

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The Unique Benefits and Characteristics of NLR

National LambdaRail (NLR) is a major initiative of U.S. research  
universities, regional networking organizations, and private sector  
technology companies providing a state-of-the-art national scale  
networking infrastructure. NLR exists both to serve “big science” and  
other discipline-based research initiatives in advancing knowledge  
and understanding and to support network research in developing new  
networking technologies and capabilities.

The NLR 11,000 mile nationwide infrastructure, already fully  
operational, enables the simultaneous deployment of multiple networks  
for experimental and production purposes. In addition, a  
comprehensive range of services is currently available to users.

Listed below are the unique characteristics enabling NLR to provide  
the research and education community with the powerful, flexible, and  
scalable networks that are increasingly critical to successful  
collaborative efforts across the country and around the globe.

NLR Serves the Research Community

NLR is by researchers and for researchers, allowing the actual users  
of this infrastructure to design networks to their needs and  
specifications. And history has demonstrated that networks built to  
provide advanced services to researchers will be immensely beneficial  
to educators, students, and other members of society. [more]

NLR Owns Its Infrastructure

NLR is owned by its members, who are also its users. These members  
make the rules. [more]

NLR’s Uses of the Infrastructure are Unconstrained

NLR members determine the appropriate uses, applications, and  
services. [more]

NLR Focuses on User-Empowered Networking Resources and Capacity

This nation’s scientists and researchers can have greater impact on  
national research agendas because NLR puts the control, the power and  
the promise of the uses of networking in their hands. [more]

NLR Enables Leading-Edge and Experimental Technologies

Researchers and educators can elect to create, deploy and manage  
their own leading-edge capabilities over NLR or to let NLR operate  
and manage leading-edge services for them. [more]

NLR Operates a Revolutionary Integrated Layer 3 Facility

The entire research & education community benefits from the  
revolutionary integration of Layer 3 Internet Services, which  
provides powerful research, financial, support and performance  
benefits. [more]

NLR is Guided by the Regional Optical Network Organizations

Regional Optical Networks (RONs), as majority NLR owners, provide the  
technical direction necessary to guarantee end-to-end interconnection  
and interoperability of the RONs via NLR, and to support data  
intensive applications that require persistent large data flows, real- 
time visualization and collaboration, and/or remote instrumentation  
scheduling. RONs work locally with their members, but think globally  
to ensure interoperability across the NLR fabric. [more]

NLR Provides Diverse Partnership and Strategic Relationship  
Opportunities

Researchers from a broad range of organizations can join forces to  
facilitate end-to-end networking in support of strategic research  
initiatives using the forum that NLR and the RONs have created. [more]

NLR is Developing Strategic Relationships with International and  
National Network Organizations

Increasingly, science is global and independent of geographic  
boundaries. The linkages of NLR to sister networks around the globe  
and connections back to members RONs enable researchers throughout  
the US to be active participants in major research initiatives,  
regardless of their location. [more]

Summary

The Research and Education Community OWNS, OPERATES, and TOTALLY  
CONTROLS the National LambdaRail Network infrastructure, to ensure  
that the users provide themselves with what they want, when they want  
it, for as long as it takes. [more]



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