[1st-mile-nm] Recent NM LambdaRail Network Update

[peter]

Excuse me for being a skeptic but i would love to see the network digram 
that shows how 28 lambdas at 10 gigs each providing primary layer 
services is going to connect to schools ( and what the real cost is )
lets see

# project fails to get its finacing in full

# all of a sudden schools are suffering

# Connect could be carrying email traffic ( Sandoval Broadband )

The LMBD local sponsors pulled the same stunt  years ago to get business 
to chip in with the original gigapop financing and they never delivered 
on a single promise

Where is H L Mencken when we need him

( : ( : pete

Peter Baston

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Richard Lowenberg wrote:
> Schools Close On Linking to Network: LambdaRail about 100 times faster than
> commercial Internet.
>
> Albuquerque Journal, Jun. 6--Two New Mexico universities are close to tapping
> into LambdaRail, the high-speed nationwide data network that's about 100 times
> faster than the commercial Internet.
>
> The University of New Mexico has taken the lead in rolling out LambdaRail in the
> state. Barney Maccabe, UNM's chief information officer, said there's been a
> problem in making the final fiber connection for New Mexico State and New
> Mexico Tech.
>
> He said the problems appear to be fixed, and he expects New Mexico Tech and New
> Mexico State will be connected before August.
>
> UNM is already routing some of its Internet traffic through LambdaRail, Maccabe
> said.
>
> Van Romero, vice president for research and economic development at New Mexico
> Tech and a member of the National LambdaRail board, said researchers at his
> university are eager for the LambdaRail connection to reach New Mexico Tech so
> they can tap into such things as the supercomputer.
>
> "It certainly is frustrating when we have this great supercomputer that we have
> access to, or that we wish we had access to, and we don't," Romero said. "And
> so the frustration level among the faculty is really high. But you have to
> realize when you look at the big picture, it's just been a month or so."
>
> Beyond allowing New Mexico Tech and New Mexico State the ability to tap into the
> supercomputer, LambdaRail could also be a solution for the schools' costly and
> everincreasing need for bandwith.
>
> New Mexico has been connected to National LambdaRail for two years. National
> LambdaRail is a consortium of universities and corporations that operates the
> 15,000-mile network that transmits data an estimated 100 times faster than the
> commercial Internet.
>
> The state committed to buy into National LambdaRail for $5 million. The amount
> was to be paid over five years.
>
> Romero said the state has paid $4 million of its debt, but didn't get the final
> funding from the Legislature in the last session.
>
> "We thought we had it lined up, and at the 11th hour it fell out of the bill ...
> ," Romero said. "We hope to in the comming session."
>
> Romero said the national organization is allowing the state to make the final
> payment next year.
>
>
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