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====National LambdaRail====
The [[National LambdaRail]] (NRL) was launched in September 2003. It is a 12,000-mile high-speed national computer network owned and operated by the US research and education community that runs over fiber-optic lines. It was the first transcontinental [[10 Gigabit Ethernet]] network. It operates with an aggregate capacity of up to {{nowrap|1.6 Tbit/s}} and a {{nowrap|40 Gbit/s}} bitrate.<ref>{{Cite news |title= National LambdaRail Opens for Business |author= Michael Feldman |work= HPCwire |date= October 28, 2008 |url= http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2008-10-28/national_lambdarail_opens_for_business.html |access-date= June 6, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nlr.net/about.php|title=About NLR|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130904020736/http://www.nlr.net/about.php |archive-date=2013-09-04|website=National LambdaRail|date=3 September 2013}}</ref> NLR ceased operations in March 2014.