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LambdaRail Fiber-Optic Network Gains 6 New Members, Enough to Go
National. National LambdaRail, a consortium of research universities, now has enough members to extend its planned network to most of the country. The project initially will operate four separate national computer networks, each with a capacity equal to Internet2's Abilene network. (The Chronicle of Higher Education) [Chronicle.com – The Wired Campus]

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mmmm speed is what you need, though this is an experimental network… or so i was told a while back.