BCNETwork News

March 2006

US Wants to Catch up to Canada

CANARIE

San Diego. The United States hopes to replicate Canada’s success in advanced networks and user-controlled lighpaths with its $100-million National Lambda Rail project, scheduled for completion by the end of 2005.

Speaking to the US trade journal CommsDesign.com in August , the director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) described America’s plans to move to a more advanced optical architecture for research and education as “a once-in-20-year kind of transition and it’s a worldwide phenomenon. Indeed, the United States is a laggard-late to the party,” said Dr. Larry Smarr.

“For example, Canada has had the optical network in place for over five years and our country got organized with the National Lambda Rail just last fall.”