TransitRail's US footprint is connected by 10Gbps waves provided by National LambdaRail (NLR). Each TransitRail node will be connected to, and accessible at, NLR points of presence throughout the United States, enabling NLR participants to leverage their membership in that organisation even further through participation a national-level peering programme.

In addition, the completion of the new node solidifies TransitRail's role within the widely-respected community of Tier-1 national and international peering networks.

TransitRail's positive reputation as a professional, engineering, and policy member within this community will foster new peering relationships among large Tier-1 networks and add to the effectiveness of the programme for its participants, which can anticipate major savings with most cost-effective network peering.

For an R&E group concerned about the costs of their Internet connectivity, participating in TransitRail can spell significant savings over the higher-cost commodity Internet. Education Networks of America (ENA) is one such organisation.

According to Bob Collie, ENA's Senior Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer, "TransitRail has proven to be an invaluable resource for us to meet the rapidly expanding bandwidth needs of the 4500 K-12 schools and libraries ENA serves.” Added Bob Collie: "CENIC, PNWGP, and ENA are working together to leverage ENA's successful commodity peering programme - and co-location facilities at major Internet facilities in Chicago and Ashburn - with CENIC and PNWGP's strong relationship with NLR and extensive peering along the west coast to create TransitRail's national presence."

Bob Collie was also pleased to report that, "ENA's school and library network members are already seeing the benefit of TransitRail's national scope as over 51% of our peak commodity Internet demand is served via our peering links."

ENA's experience mirrors that of other TransitRail participants including Oklahoma's ONENet, Utah Education Network, Mid Atlantic Terascale Partnership, North Carolina Research & Education Network, MERIT Network, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, California's CENIC, Pacific Northwest Gigapop, and more.