[1st-mile-nm] Chicago firm to sell untapped Lamdarail fiber bandwidth

[Arthur Maccabe]

Darkstrand's deal with NRL is that they will maintain part of the  
infrastructure and provide an infusion of money to extend NLR's assets  
in exchange for being able to sell excess bandwidth to commercial  
entities.  The partnership makes sense in that the universities that  
bought into NLR are not in a position to market the assets and, in  
wake of the failed I2 merger, NLR was in need of money for expansion  
and for maintenance.  The assets that we own are still owned by the  
members of NLR.

I2 may currently have a better business model than NLR; however, I2's  
business model has improved quite  bit since the inception of NLR.   
Moreover, NLR continues to offer services that I2 cannot offer and,  
until recently, I2's governance model was fundamentally broken.




On Jun 22, 2008, at 10:41 PM, peter wrote:

> Ho boy, now a company is going to charge companies for using  
> Lamdarail after the same companies spent years ponying up and  
> raising money to build it.
>
> http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-thu-darkstrand-fiber-optic-njun05,0,4884560.story
>
> Internet 2 / Abilene was and is a far better business model
>
> I haven't seen this sort of chicanery since ATT tried to bury packet  
> switching and Ethernet
>
> Proves my point LMDR was an academic money raising scheme from the  
> beginning
>
> Who's going to be the first brave person to ask LMDR committee   
> "what they did with all the money ? "
>
> I also hear that Level 3 "PASSED" on the deal having a "BETTER"  
> option, something is seriously wrong here
>
> ( : ( : pete
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