November 30, 2007
Failed Network Merger May Have High Cost for Colleges
Talk of blissfully bonding began early in the spring, but when the end came this month, it was bitter. A long-planned merger between Internet2 and National LambdaRail, the leading high-speed networks for colleges and universities, fell apart after a meeting of LambdaRail's governing board.
The union that never happened has left universities with the unhappy prospect of having to split scarce resources between two high-performance Internet providers, instead of consolidating them. "This
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