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

[John Brown]

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:
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>> Thanks for the posting, John.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> RL
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>> On Mar 26, 2014, at 7:51 PM, John Brown wrote:
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>> Various educational institutions are reporting that the National
>> Lambda Rail will cease operations shortly.
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>> What does this mean for NM,  UNM, NM State, and the taxpayers of NM
>> who have invested heavily into this infra-structure.
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>> 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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>> 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
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