IRNC: ProNet - TransLight / Pacific Wave

IRNC：ProNet - TransLight / Pacific Wave

• 批准号: 0962931
• 负责人: David Lassner
• 金额: $ 399.98万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0962931&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRNC; ProNet; TransLight; Pacific; Wave

The TransLight/Pacific Wave (TL/PW) project builds on close and effective collaborations built over the last decade among the University of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP), and the Corporation for Educational Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) to create and operate a unified distributed exchange service for Research and Education (R&E) networking in the Asia-Pacific hemisphere. TL/PW will present a unified connectivity face toward the West for all US R&E networks including Internet2, National Lambda Rail and Federal agency networks, enabling general and specific peerings with more than 15 international R&E links, including those funded by other NSF IRNC projects, serving scores of countries. Distributed peering services at network Layers 1, 2 and 3 will allow the project to seamlessly support domain-specific projects while remaining committed to equitable shared global R&E network services. TL/PW will work with Internet2, National Lambda Rail, the other IRNC awardees and international networks to provide seamless evolutionary production networking services to the international research community. The value of TL/PW to the nation and the world is demonstrated by the fact that TL/PW is not proposing to buy new international links. Rather, TL/PW funding will be used to provide domestic backhaul, hosting, support and facilitation for those engaged in R&E networking in the region. TL/PW will provide domestic support for AARNet's SX-TransPORT project, which provides two 10Gbps circuits from Australia to Hawaii to the West Coast of the U.S. on the Southern Cross Cable Network submarine fiber system. This project not only connects Australia's R&E networking community but also provides connectivity for the world's premiere setting for astronomical observatories, the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii. The Mauna Kea observatories comprise over $1 billion of international investment by 13 countries in some of the most important cyberinfrastructure resources in the world. TL/PW will also continue to advance and support research network connections in the Australasia and Pacific regions.The Intellectual Merit of TL/PW derives from its championing of end-to-end connectivity and network advancement that stimulates innovation among leading domain scientists and cyberinfrastructure engineers. TL/PW has innovated to create the world's model distributed exchange serving the global R&E networking community, and will continue to advance reliable and cost-effective global cyberinfrastructure to meet broader research and education needs. TL/PW will focus on emerging network-enabled sustainable services, like cloud computing, and will take on a special leadership role to support major international scientific cyberinfrastructure in areas unique to its service area: astronomy and ocean observatories. TL/PW will enable the advancement of scientific discovery, and in so doing, advance the state of cyberinfrastructure-empowered research and education.The Broader Impact of TL/PW will result from its sweeping enablement of US researchers to easily collaborate with their colleagues in many of the fastest-developing parts of the world. TL/PW is superbly positioned to support global access to large-scale international sensor networks like the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative and the substantial international investment in telescopes that comprise the Mauna Kea Observatories. Working with major commercial players, including Amazon and Microsoft, TL/PW will actively advance the state of cloud computing services that investigators will increasingly apply in their research as a greener and more cost-effective approach to cyberinfrastructure deployment. TL/PW also plans to leverage its unique positioning to extend R&E networking into the Pacific Islands, which are central to understanding the global phenomena of climate change, sea-level rise and ocean acidification.

TransLight/Pacific Wave (TL/PW) 项目建立在夏威夷大学、太平洋西北 Gigapop (PNWGP) 和加州教育网络倡议公司 (CENIC) 过去十年间密切有效的合作基础上，旨在创建并为亚太半球的研究和教育（R＆E）网络运营统一的分布式交换服务。 TL/PW 将为所有美国 R&E 网络（包括 Internet2、国家 Lambda Rail 和联邦机构网络）提供面向西方的统一连接界面，从而实现与超过 15 个国际 R&E 链路（包括由其他 NSF IRNC 项目资助的链路）的一般和特定对等互连，服务数十个国家。 网络第 1 层、第 2 层和第 3 层的分布式对等服务将使该项目能够无缝支持特定领域的项目，同时继续致力于公平共享的全球 R&E 网络服务。 TL/PW 将与 Internet2、National Lambda Rail、其他 IRNC 获奖者和国际网络合作，为国际研究界提供无缝的进化生产网络服务。 TL/PW 不提议购买新的国际链路这一事实证明了 TL/PW 对国家和世界的价值。 相反，TL/PW 资金将用于为该地区从事 R&E 网络的人员提供国内回程、托管、支持和便利。 TL/PW 将为 AARNet 的 SX-TransPORT 项目提供国内支持，该项目在南十字电缆网络海底光纤系统上提供从澳大利亚到夏威夷再到美国西海岸的两条 10Gbps 电路。 该项目不仅连接澳大利亚的 R&E 网络社区，还为世界上首屈一指的天文观测站——夏威夷大岛的莫纳克亚山顶提供连接。 莫纳克亚天文台由 13 个国家对世界上一些最重要的网络基础设施资源进行的超过 10 亿美元的国际投资组成。 TL/PW 还将继续推进和支持澳大利亚和太平洋地区的研究网络连接。TL/PW 的智力价值源自其对端到端连接和网络进步的倡导，从而刺激领先领域科学家和网络基础设施的创新工程师。 TL/PW 不断创新，创建了为全球 R&E 网络社区提供服务的全球分布式交换模型，并将继续推进可靠且经济高效的全球网络基础设施，以满足更广泛的研究和教育需求。 TL/PW 将专注于云计算等新兴的网络支持的可持续服务，并将发挥特殊的领导作用，支持其服务领域特有的主要国际科学网络基础设施：天文学和海洋观测站。 TL/PW 将推动科学发现的进步，并以此推动网络基础设施支持的研究和教育的发展。TL/PW 的更广泛影响将源于其广泛支持美国研究人员在以下领域轻松地与同事合作：世界上许多发展最快的地区。 TL/PW 处于有利地位，可以支持全球接入大型国际传感器网络，例如 NSF 资助的海洋观测站计划以及对构成莫纳克亚天文台的望远镜的大量国际投资。 TL/PW 将与包括亚马逊和微软在内的主要商业参与者合作，积极推动云计算服务的发展，研究人员将越来越多地将云计算服务应用到他们的研究中，作为一种更环保、更具成本效益的网络基础设施部署方法。 TL/PW 还计划利用其独特的定位将 R&E 网络扩展到太平洋岛屿，这对于了解气候变化、海平面上升和海洋酸化等全球现象至关重要。