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

[CStevenLucero]

John,

There is a non-carrier "content" company preparing a national fiber build, with a capital investment of $150MM, to replicate a Unity network (Googles undersea Int'l fiber network). Will be much bigger and better than NLR

Stay tuned!

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On 26 Mar 2014, at 20:29, John Brown <john at citylinkfiber.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the update.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:20 PM, C Steven Lucero
> <cstevenlucero at latingroupllc.com> wrote:
>> 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...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>> Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director
>>> 1st-Mile Institute          www.1st-mile.org
>>> P. O.  Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM    87504
>>> 505-603-5200                 rl at 1st-mile.org
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>