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Florida LambdaRail Bi-Annual Report 2013-2014
A State of the Art Network
FLR Upgrades to 100 Gbps
FLR is committed to providing exceptional value for our members. Since our inception 10 years ago,
we have saved our university partners more than $24 million by delivering cost-effective data transport between and among network members while providing unique access to Internet2 and a framework that supports large scale data analysis promoting collaboration among research partners the world over. Our infrastructure allows members to engage in network research and to develop applications leading to new protocols and procedures that support Florida’s continued emergence as a center of high technology research and development. We are proud to be the network that makes these advances possible.
Today FLR is investing $3.5 million to expand the capacity of our network from the current 20 gigabits per second (Gbps) to an internationally recognized state-of-the art 100 Gbps by the summer of 2015. Due to rapid advances in optical networking equipment, the cost to upgrade to 40 Gbps two years ago is virtually the same to upgrade FLR’s optics and backbone to 100 Gbps today. Making the move to 100 Gbps today sets in place the network infrastructure capable of handling all of Florida’s research related data needs for the next 20 years and beyond.
While many regional networks have upgraded portions of their backbone to 100 Gbps, FLR will become only the third Research & Education Network in the nation to undertake a complete system upgrade of this magnitude. The upgrade will enable Florida’s researchers, educators, students, medical professionals and others - in universities, research centers, government agencies and non- profit organizations - to connect to each other and to the world via a network built for the data and telecommunications needs of the 21st Century.
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cabinets filled with text daily;
Simultaneously download an eBook for every one of Florida’s 2.7 million enrolled K-12 students in around 2 minutes;
Transmit 300,000 X-rays in just one minute; Transmit 8.5 million electronic medical records in
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Send smartphone data 50,000 times faster than current average speeds
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Transmit the data equivalent of 80 million file
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