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

[Richard Lowenberg]

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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