lambdarail 10gb/s backbone
apparently Vatech is working with the rest of Virginia to boost our networking infrastructure again, there is alot of other info in this article, well worth reading.
some more info: http://www.cwru.edu/its/strategic/national_lambdarail.htm
and the lambdarail homepage http://www.getlight.net/
the mid-atlantic terascale project http://www.midatlantic-terascale.org/