Fighting cancer at 100 Gigabits per second

We often ascribe great, life-changing powers to high-speed Internet connections when it comes to how we communicate and consume content, but can they cure cancer?

The newly formed Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Advanced Health thinks so, and it’s investing hundreds of millions of dollars in a nationally distributed computing system to make it happen. At the core of its efforts is the National LambdaRail (NLR), a research network comprised of more than 12,000 miles of fiber optic cable and capable of 100 Gigabits-per-second speed.