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

[Owen Densmore]

Could someone summarize/simplify for this noob!?  Fascinating stuff.

   -- Owen


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Steve Ross <editorsteve at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's odd. I thought the IRU ran for 20 years starting in 2006. I think
> your friend meant the managed service contract with Level3, which would
> have been due to expire in 2013 (It was the typical 7 year deal, I think,
> and also started in 2006, because NLR was originally on a Qwest backbone
> for the first few years). Does this mean the NLR leased fiber, though dark,
> still is an NLR asset? Or did the IRU go back to Level3, perhaps to settle
> the debt on the service contract? As I remember, the IRU was for a fiber
> pair going everywhere Level3 went, or everywhere in the United States. I
> know a lot of the colleges on NLR also are on I2, and not many probably
> need both, but I2 isn't secured by an IRU -- Level3 lights it more or less
> the way Level3 wants to light it. So it isn't as useful as a research tool,
> I would think. But it still is capacity that maybe NM schools can use?
>
>
>
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> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:20 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...
>>>
>>>
>>>  ---------------------------------------------------------
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>>> 505-603-5200                 rl at 1st-mile.org
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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