Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC)

网络启动资源中心（NSRC）项目为发展中地区的研究机构和网络组织提供技术信息、工程援助、培训和设备。主要目标是使美国科学家和工程师以及发展中地区的科学家和工程师更容易通过互联网进行合作。在2004财年，该项目将在今年过渡到其他项目，并继续在世界上连接较少的地区开发网络基础设施，继续通过这些正在进行的合作伙伴关系和联盟来保持其高杠杆作用的传统。 国家科学研究中心的活动是发展和加强合作研究、教育和国际伙伴关系的网络基础设施，同时通过技术转让促进教学和培训。这项工作为发展中国家参与全球研究事业的研究人员提供了更好的机会，从而为美国科学家和国际研究界带来了重大利益。关于智力价值，NSRC的工作通过明确的战略重点推进网络和电信领域的知识和理解：致力于解决工程师和技术人员在较贫穷，欠发达国家的研究和教育环境中的具体问题。从这些努力中得到的改进的通信，然后提供给科学家和工程师，在频谱的两端，使各种各样的想法，信息，人才和资源的应用程序到一个给定的研究问题。 NSRC的主要重点领域是：帮助在海外R E网络中开发和部署互联网基础设施&协助美国科学家进行国际合作和研究伙伴关系向网络运营商提供技术信息和资源提供直接的网络工程和规划援助帮助组织区域培训讲习班和中心协调捐赠和网络书籍和设备的运输开发互联网交换点帮助建立和部署无线网络基础设施托管网络工程实习生就建立服务台和用户支助服务 NSRC和俄勒冈州大学的团队在设计网络和在基础设施最少和资源有限的地方部署互联网技术方面拥有丰富的运营经验。我们在过去15年中建立了广泛的国际联系和关系，我们的同事愿意为国家科学研究委员会的倡议和活动贡献他们的时间和专业知识，当我们代表国家科学基金会和美国科学家请求他们的帮助时，特别强调科学机构。在为发展中经济体的许多初始网络工作提供了帮助之后，国家统计研究委员会正在过渡到帮助这些网络解决可扩展性、为最终用户丰富服务和应用程序以及国家和区域合作等问题。我们从工业界、设备供应商和图书出版商那里得到了大量的实物支持，部分原因是NSF的认可，这大大增加了NSF在NSRC项目中的投资回报。通过建立在过去的成功和目前的工作关系，该项目将正式战略联盟与合作伙伴在工业界和学术界支持国家科学研究委员会的活动。

The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) project provides technical information, engineer-ing assistance, training, and equipment to research institutions and networking organizations in developing areas. The primary goal is to make it easier for US scientists and engineers, and those in developing areas, to collaborate via the Internet. In FY04 the project will transition this year to other programs and continue to develop network infrastructure in the less-connected parts of the world continuing its tradition of high leveraging through these ongoing partnerships and alliances. The NSRC.s activities develop and enhance network infrastructure for collaborative research, education, and international partnerships, while promoting teaching and training via the transfer of technology.The work provides significant benefits for US scientists and the international research community by facilitating better access for researchers in developing countries who participate in the global research enterprise. Regarding intellectual merit, NSRC.s work advances knowledge and under-standing within the fields of networking and telecommunications through a clearly focused strat-egy: working on the specific problems of engineers and technologists in the research and educational environments of poorer, less developed countries. The improved communications resulting from these efforts are then available to scientists and engineers, on both ends of the spectrum, enabling the application of a wide variety of ideas, information, talent, and resources to a given research question. The NSRC.s main focus areas are: Helping develop and deploy Internet infrastructure in overseas R&E networks Assisting US scientists with international collaboration and research partnershipsProviding technical information and resources to network operators Providing direct network engineering and planning assistance Helping organize regional training workshops and centers Coordinating donations and shipments of networking books and equipment Developing Internet exchange points Helping build and deploy wireless network infrastructure Hosting network engineering interns Advising on the establishment of help desk and user support services Maintaining a historical archive of Internet connectivity The NSRC and University of Oregon team brings considerable operational experience in design-ing networks and deploying Internet technology in places with minimal infrastructure and limited resources. Colleagues from the extensive international contacts and relationships that we have established over the past fifteen years are willing to contribute their time and expertise to NSRC initiatives and activities, putting special emphasis on scientific institutions when we request their help on behalf of NSF and US scientists. Having assisted many of the initial network efforts in developing economies, the NSRC is transitioning to assisting those networks with issues of scal-ability, enrichment of services and applications for end users, and national and regional coopera-tion. The substantial in-kind support we have received from industry, equipment vendors, and book publishers, in part because of NSF.s imprimatur, has significantly multiplied the return of NSF.s investment in the NSRC project. By building on past successes and current working rela-Tionships this project will formalize strategic alliances with partners in industry and academia that support the NSRC.s activities.