National Outreach Program for Advanced Networking in Higher Education

先进的网络基础设施计划，例如以 NSF 的 vBNS 或政府的下一代互联网计划为代表的计划，通常在早期阶段仅可供少数领先的高等教育研究机构使用。 尽管成果的传播是这些举措的预期结果，但从非常实际的角度来看，其他高等教育机构复制早期采用者和开发者的经验可能极其困难。 通常，追随者需要信息、咨询和其他相当密集和专注的、个案类型的服务。 该提案的目的是通过制定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参与新兴高性能研究和教育网络的使用和实施。

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.