National Outreach Program for Advanced Networking in Higher Education

先进的网络基础设施倡议，如以NSF的vBNS或政府的下一代互联网倡议为代表的倡议，在早期阶段通常只有少数领先的高等教育研究机构可以访问。虽然传播成果是这些举措的预期结果，但从非常实际的角度来看，其他高等教育机构可能很难复制早期采用者和开发者的经验。通常，那些追随者需要信息、咨询和其他相当密集和专门的服务，具体情况是这样的。这项提议的目的是通过建立一个外展计划来建立这样的服务，这将有助于更多的高等教育和相关社区更多地参与使用和实施新兴的高绩效研究和教育网络。

Advanced networking infrastructure initiatives, such as that represented by NSF's vBNS or the government's Next Generation Internet initiative, are typically accessible in their early stages only to a small number of leading research institutions of higher education. Though dissemination of results is an expected outcome of these initiatives, it can be extremely difficult for the rest of higher education, in very practical terms, to replicate the experiences of the early adopters and developers. Typically, those who follow require information, consultation, and other services of a rather intense and dedicated, case-by-case type. The intent of this proposal is to seed the establishment of such a service, through the formation of an outreach program, that would help to grow the involvement of more of higher education and related communities in the use and implementation of emerging high performance research and education networks.