New Fiber-Optic Network Goes National

A consortium of research universities that is creating an $80-million fiber-optic computer network announced last week that it has added six members, enough to extend the network to most portions of the country.

The system, called the National LambdaRail, initially will operate four separate national computer networks, each with capacity equal to the most powerful national research network now in operation, the Abilene network run by the Internet2 organization. LambdaRail will

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