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NATIONAL LAMBDARAIL APPOINTS GWENDOLYN HUNTOON TO SERVE AS DIRECTOR  
OF OPERATIONS

Cypress, CA—Sept. 21, 2005—National LambdaRail, inc. (NLR), a major  
initiative of U.S. research universities and private sector  
technology companies, has appointed Gwendolyn Huntoon as interim  
director of operations. She currently serves as director of  
networking for the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and is a  
member of the NLR Board of Directors.

“The members of NLR will benefit immensely from Wendy’s vast  
experience at the frontier of high-performance research and education  
networking,” said Tom West, CEO of NLR. “With her record of  
accomplishment and her longstanding leadership in the advanced  
networking community, she brings an extremely valuable set of skills  
to the task of finalizing the buildout of the NLR infrastructure.”

Ms. Huntoon has served in her current role at PSC since 1999, during  
which time she has been actively engaged with researchers  
participating in various major research projects such as the National  
Science Foundation’s TeraGrid project. Between July 2001 and June  
2004 she served as the first executive director of The Quilt, a  
coalition of advanced regional network organizations.

"It's a privilege to be able to help put this infrastructure in the  
hands of researchers who will create the next generation of  
networking technologies,” said Ms. Huntoon. “As we improve the  
performance of our networks and experiment with new networking  
techniques, we'll be enabling a new breed of high-performance and  
network applications."

NLR is deploying a nationwide optical network infrastructure that  
uses Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) to provide up to  
40 simultaneous light wavelengths, each capable of transmitting 10  
gigabits per second. This infrastructure provides the ability to  
provision dedicated network resources for production and experimental  
networks that exist side-by-side yet are physically and operationally  
separate. The infrastructure simultaneously supports cutting-edge  
network research as well as ambitious scientific projects that  
require guaranteed levels of networking reliability, availability,  
and performance.

About National LambdaRail
National LambdaRail, Inc. (NLR) is a major initiative of U.S.  
research universities and private sector technology companies to  
provide a national scale infrastructure for research and  
experimentation in networking technologies and applications. NLR puts  
the control, the power and the promise of experimental network  
infrastructure in the hands of our nation’s scientists and  
researchers. Visit www.nlr.net for more information.

Contacts:
Greg Wood
National LambdaRail

703-625-3917

Sean Fulton
PSC

412-268-7141


Greg Wood
National LambdaRail

+1-202-331-5360
http://www.nlr.net