National LambdaRail - Goals

Goals

The goals of the National LambdaRail project are:

  • To bridge the gap between leading-edge optical network research and state-of-the-art applications research;
  • To push beyond the technical and performance limitations of today’s Internet backbones;
  • To provide the growing set of major computationally intensive science (often termed e-Science) projects, initiatives and experiments with the dedicated bandwidth, deterministic performance characteristics, and/or other advanced network capabilities they need; and
  • To enable and to rekindle the possibilities for highly creative, out-of-the-box experimentation and innovation that characterized facilities-based network research during the early years of the Internet.

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