May 22, 2006
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AScribe Newswire (04/20/06)
National LambdaRail (NLR) sees peering and transit services as a way to improve its nationwide network fiber and optronics infrastructure as well as lower the cost of Internet services for member research universities and tech companies. The consortium is launching a project, National TransitRail, that will have the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP) oversee the initiative, using their experience in running the Pacific Wave distributed peering exchange facility. Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP), Mid-Atlantic Terascale Partnership (MATP), and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) will also take part in the project. The peering and transit program will be designed to intelligently manage traffic, quickly directing it to the target network or organization, which would cut down on "hops" while in transition. The project will address the relationship of peering sessions and transit routes at geographically dispersed locations. "We believe that it is time for the research and education community to further exploit the reliability and redundancy that a national peering and transit infrastructure affords," says NLR President Tom West. After the first nine months, National TransitRail will be available to other NLR members.
For the complete article, see http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20060420.114334&time=12%2050%20PDT&year=2006&public=1
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