The on-again, off-again relationship between Internet2 and the National Lambda Rail has hit another snag. Maybe permanently.
At the Internet2’s member meeting last December in Chicago the board announced the merger was off. Then less than three months later both organizations announced they would merge…and even set up a website. This was also outlined at the 2007 WiscNet Future Technology Conference report of the WiscNet Internet2 Working Group.
Well now almost a year later we are still awaiting for the outcome. Again, it appears the merge is now “formally off”…just like last December. Arg!
–Give it six months and we’ll review where both parties are sitting at the high speed network table.
Tags: Internet2, NLR, optical network, merger, globalization, network, WiscNet, trends