March 3, 2006

Builders of Fiber-Optic Networks Still Negotiating Merger

By VINCENT KIERNAN

Engineers have finished building the national academic fiber-optic computer network called National LambdaRail. But the future of the network's governance remains a bit fuzzy.

The network was financed and built by a consortium of universities and companies, also known as National LambdaRail. The consortium announced in February that it had finished the 15,000-mile project that runs from New York to Seattle and from Jacksonville, Fla., to Sunnyvale, Calif., with several north-south

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