National LambdaRail Selects CENIC to Provide Network Operations Services

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

National LambdaRail (NLR) and the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) announced that they have agreed that CENIC would become the provider of Network Operations Center (NOC) services to NLR. NLR, which like CENIC is based in Southern California, is the nation's premier advanced research communications network. It consists of over 12,000 miles of high performance optical fiber, linking research centers and government agencies across the country and capable of massive data transmission at speeds of up to 100 Gigabits per second. CENIC is among a group of regional optical networks that founded NLR in 2002, and provides connectivity to over 10,600 research and educational institutions throughout California. CENIC has provided NOC services at the optical layer to NLR since the latter's inception. Under the new, enhanced partnership between the two organizations, CENIC will now also provide switch, router, and engineering support desk NOC services.

“As a founding member of NLR, CENIC is excited to be assuming responsibility for the entire NLR Network Operations Center," said CENIC Chief Executive Officer, Louis Fox. "Providing this support will further our mutual interest in serving needs of the research community, including California's world class research universities, as well as those of over 200 research universities across the country that depend upon NLR.”

“It makes perfect sense for NLR and CENIC to work more closely together,” said NLR's Chairman and CEO, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, as he also welcomed the new agreement. “An expanded partnership will enable us to provide ever better service to the research and education community, to support all scientific research in our nation and in particular to support the massive data demands that genomic medicine will create as it transforms healthcare in the country.”

The Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Advanced Health announced in July 2011 that it had committed some $100 million to NLR and would equip the network as the backbone of a “national health intranet” linking research centers and hospitals with genomic sequencing and high performance computing capabilities and dedicated medical data storage capacity, “bringing the power of supercomputing to the point of care.”

About NLR

National LambdaRail is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization founded by the research and education community. It connects over 280 sites, including universities and federal laboratories, which use NLR's 12,000 miles of high performance optical fiber in the United States and its connections to overseas networks for leading edge research, medical science, and patient care. Users include NASA, NOAA and NIH. NLR creates opportunities for collaboration, innovation and commercialization among the global research community as well as public and private partners. It also provides customized support for individual researchers and projects. For more information please visit www.nlr.net.

About CENIC

California's education and research communities leverage their networking resources under CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, in order to obtain cost-effective, high-bandwidth networking to support their missions and answer the needs of their faculty, staff, and students.

CENIC designs, implements, and operates CalREN, the California Research and Education Network, a high-bandwidth, high-capacity Internet network specially designed to meet the unique requirements of these communities, and to which the vast majority of the state's K-20 educational institutions are connected. In order to facilitate collaboration in education and research, CENIC also provides connectivity to non-California institutions and industry research organizations with which CENIC's Associate researchers and educators are engaged.

National LambdaRail
Jen Hodson
310-405-7539
jhodson@nlr.net

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