# Presentation: 135713

## NLR – National LambdaRail

*Optical Network Testbeds Workshop*
*August 9-11, 2004*
*Dave Farber*
*Tom West*

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## Current NLR Participants

*Current NLR Participants*

- Corp for Education Network Initiatives in Calif. (CENIC)
- Pacific Northwest GigaPOP (PNWGP)
- Carnegie Mellon University--Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- Duke (representing coalition of NC universities)
- Mid-Atlantic Terascale Partnership
- Cisco Systems
- Internet2
- Florida LambdaRail
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)
- University Corp for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)/Front Range GigaPOP
- Lone Star Education and Research Network (LEARN) - Texas
- Cornell University – New York
- Louisiana Board of Regents
- University of New Mexico
- Oklahoma State board of Regents--Oklahoma
- SURA--Southeastern University Research Association
- Case Western Reserve University
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory

## Proposed NLR Organizational Model-4/28/04

**Engineering Committee **
**(EOC)**
**Ex Officio:**
**   ****Call Center Dir**
**   ****L1 Dir**
**   ****L2/3 Dir**
**   ****ESC Dir**
**   ****DDO**

- Board of Directors

- Coordinating Committee

**Technical Support Services (TSS)**

**Executive Committee**

**Network Research**
**Committee (NRC)**
**Ex Officio:**
**   ****DDO**
**   ****C-EOC**
**   ****ESC Dir**

**Science Research**
**Committee (SRC)**

- Call Center

- L1SC

- L2/3SC

- ESC

- Remote Hands

- 			NLR Users (Participants, MetaPoPs, etc)

##  KEYSTONE NLR GOAL

- Create a national networking physical infrastructure to foster the concurrent advancement of:
- Network research  and
- Next generation network-based applications in science, engineering, medicine and other disciplines
- by enabling the implementation of multiple networks, both experimental and production, to facilitate technology innovation and discovery and sharing of new knowledge

##  NLR Strategies

- Promote multidisciplinary/cross organizational collaborations
- Support and facilitate experimental networking research projects at all layers
- Provide new advanced production networking capabilities

## Two Drivers for NLR

- I need more bandwidth for research!
- High-end science needs Terabits
- Predictable quality interconnect
- Immersive presence and the
- “bit rate of reality, 40Gbps”  Tom Holman (USC)
- I need a breakable network for research!
- New protocols
- New devices
- New architectures

## NLR - Potential Use ExamplesDeveloped by Javad Boroumand--Cisco Systems

## CISCO and NLR Research

- Aiming towards a research _program_ and not just a collection of research projects
- Cisco URP funding; welcome joint funding opportunities

## NLR Infrastructure

- Not a single network but a set of facilities, capabilities and services to build both experimental and production networks at various layers, allowing members to acquire dedicated (project specific) facilities or shared (community specific) facilities as appropriate.

- Most of the focus so far has been on the massive production DWDM network build out but that would change soon to focus on building the experimental networks

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## For More Information

- NLR: _[www.nlr.net](http://www.nlr.net/)_