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Saturday, July 30, 2005
Leveraging National LambdaRail: The Road to RON - Larry Conrad and Veronica Sarjeant, EDUCAUSE Review
htIn the May/June 2005 EDUCAUSE Review New Horizons column, Steve Corbató and Steve Cotter reported on the higher education opportunities presented by the availability of dark fiber and the rise of Regional Optical Network (RON) initiatives across the country. Spawned by National LambdaRail (NLR), RON initiatives are under way in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Virginia, New York, New Mexico, and Colorado, while significant expansions of existing RONs are being undertaken in Georgia, Washington, and California. Thus, the higher education regional networks that were so critical to the success of NSFNET over a decade ago are now reemerging, but with a difference. These optical-network-age regional efforts are better organized, have stronger financial underpinnings, and reflect a greater comprehension of complex telecommunications industry and market-based issues. Most important, these regional efforts enable the design and implementation of networks over physical communications infrastructure optimized for research and education (R&E) applications.
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