New net will bypass recreational users

December 8, 2003 | Source: Sydney Morning Herald

The National LambdaRail system, described by some as “the Internet of the future,” is an $80 million fiber-optic network intended to become the largest and fastest scientific research network in the world, with 16,000 kilometers of fiber.

The first leg, brought online in November, links supercomputing centers in Chicago and Pittsburgh and runs at 70 Gbps.