[Hen] FW: [NLR-News] TransitRail on the Move: OneNet Joins and Sees Extraordinary Results

[Johnson, Bill]

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December 5, 2006 - What does a major regional research & education 
network do when it must continue to affordably meet the burgeoning 
demand for commodity Internet bandwidth?  In the case of 
OneNet--Oklahoma's telecommunications and information network for 
education and government--the answer was to connect to TransitRail, a 
reliable, extensive commodity peering initiative designed to support the

research and education networking community.

Rather than continuing to buy additional, expensive commodity circuits, 
OneNet easily connected to TransitRail through its National LambdaRail 
(NLR) point of presence in Tulsa, thereby leveraging an existing 
infrastructure with extraordinary capacity and capabilities.  In less 
than a week, roughly 60% of the traffic on that segment transferred 
immediately to TransitRail thereby relieving potential contention on 
their commodity circuits.

James Deaton, OneNet's Chief Technology Officer stated "We expected to 
see maybe 100-200Mbps of traffic migrate to TransitRail. Instead, we 
were especially pleased to see roughly 500Mbps of traffic take the 
TransitRail path. Frankly, without this affordable TransitRail option, 
our end-users would have continued to utilize greater amounts of high 
cost backup commodity Internet connections while new services were 
negotiated with a commercial vendor. As it is, TransitRail put us in far

better shape than we hoped."

"TransitRail was a logical solution to enable us to stay one step ahead 
of increasing demand," said Kurt Snodgrass, Vice Chancellor for IT and 
Telecommunications for the Oklahoma State Regents.  "Based on the 
favorable TransitRail experience of R&E groups such as CENIC, Pacfic 
Northwest Gigapop, Front Range Gigapop, and Pittsburg Supercomputing 
Center, we were confident that we would see a substantial amount of our 
commodity traffic move to TransitRail. The actual results, however, far 
exceeded our expectations."

TransitRail is an AUP-free national commodity peering program for 
research and education networks. TransitRail is operated by CENIC and 
Pacific Northwest Gigapop. Current nodes are located in Seattle, Los 
Angeles, and Sunnyvale. Additional nodes in Chicago, Illinois and 
Ashburn, Virginia are under construction with planned activation during 
the first part of 2007.

TransitRail's broad U.S. footprint to Chicago and Ashburn will be 
connected by 10Gbps waves provided by National LambdaRail (NLR). Each 
TransitRail node will be connected to, and accessible at, NLR points of 
presence throughout the United States.

TransitRail peers with major Tier1 ISPs and Internet content providers.

Its current participant base represents a substantial segment of the 
research and education community within the United States. TransitRail 
is available to any interested R&E network groups.

Both peers and participants are expected to grow significantly as 
TransitRail continues to expand its operations.

For more information about TransitRail, please contact
info at transitrail.net.

About TransitRail: www.transitrail.net
About OneNet: www.onenet.net
About NLR,Inc.: www.nlr.net
About CENIC:  www.cenic.org
About Pacific Northwest Gigapop: www.pnw-gigapop.net
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