<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Could someone summarize/simplify for this noob!? Fascinating stuff.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"> -- Owen</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Steve Ross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:editorsteve@gmail.com" target="_blank">editorsteve@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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?</div>
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<br><br></font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:20 PM, C Steven Lucero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cstevenlucero@latingroupllc.com" target="_blank">cstevenlucero@latingroupllc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div>Richard,<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just an FYI. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Steven<div><div><br>
<br>On Wednesday, March 26, 2014, Richard Lowenberg <<a href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.org" target="_blank">rl@1st-mile.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Thanks for the posting, John.<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This from Wikipedia:</div><div>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. </div>
<div>The upgrade never took place. NLR ceased operations in March 2014.</div><div><br></div><div>RL</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 26, 2014, at 7:51 PM, John Brown wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Various educational institutions are reporting that the National<br>
Lambda Rail will cease operations shortly.<br><br>What does this mean for NM, UNM, NM State, and the taxpayers of NM<br>who have invested heavily into this infra-structure.<br><br>Santa Fe's recent "fiber RFQ" was relying on using NLR assets to get<br>
to the world and thus hopefully reduce the cost of bandwidth...<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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