Happy Holidays to the NLR Community

On behalf of all of us at NLR, best wishes to our members, users and friends for a pleasant, restful holiday season and peace and joy in the coming year.

We look forward to an exciting 2011, and new opportunities to serve you by providing the world's most advanced, high-performance network infrastructure dedicated to U.S. research and education.

CENIC Award to Former NLR CEO Tom West

CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), announced its 2010 Innovations in Networking Awards today, at the CENIC annual conference.

The Award for Outstanding Individual Contribution went to former NLR President and CEO Tom West, who also served as CENIC's president and CEO from March 1999 to June 2004. According to CENIC's announcement, this was "a time of great expansion for CENIC, during which both the company and the communities it serves benefited tremendously from his extraordinary vision and ability to turn that vision into reality."

Congrats, Tom!