[1st-mile-nm] National Lambda Rail shutting down

[C Steven Lucero]

Richard,

I met this week with a person intimately familiar with this. In short Level3 issued a policy in recent years that they would not renew any fiber IRU's. Simulataneously, it was learned that NLR was 3 yrs in default of payments, which was not disclosed to Dr Soon-Shiong. Given that the term of the IRU was coming up, he declined to pay the balance due and L3 cancelled the contract. This happened in Jan.

Just an FYI. 

Best,

Steven

On Wednesday, March 26, 2014, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the posting, John.
> 
> It would be good to hear from UNM, State IT staff or others with knowledge about this, as there has been little press coverage on the matter.
> 
> This from Wikipedia:
> In November 2011 the control of NLR was purchased from its university membership by a billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong for $100M, who indicated his intention to upgrade NLR infrastructure and repurpose portions of it to support an ambitious healthcare project. 
> The upgrade never took place.   NLR ceased operations in March 2014.
> 
> RL
> 
> On Mar 26, 2014, at 7:51 PM, John Brown wrote:
> 
>> Various educational institutions are reporting that the National
>> Lambda Rail will cease operations shortly.
>> 
>> What does this mean for NM,  UNM, NM State, and the taxpayers of NM
>> who have invested heavily into this infra-structure.
>> 
>> Santa Fe's recent "fiber RFQ" was relying on using NLR assets to get
>> to the world and thus hopefully reduce the cost of bandwidth...
> 
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