That's a great question. The answer is absolutely it has. When CANARIE was started in 1993 the commercial Internet was just getting started and CANARIE actually acted as a test bed for the development of new technologies that were ultimately deployed in the commercial Internet in a production network. Over the last 18 years CANARIE's network has become more of a production network in support of research and education. But what we've recently done is allocated a portion of our network for this kind of experimentation, to continue the evolution of next-generation technologies and the commercialization of those technologies in the commercial Internet.
On November 16th, 2011. See this statement in context.