SCI: IRNC: TransLight/Pacific Wave (TOPS-PW)

TransLight项目计划建立在过去7年发展的现有连接基础上。TransLight分别提出了两个主要组成部分：Translight/Starlight用于芝加哥、纽约和阿姆斯特丹的连接，以及TransLight/Pacific Wave服务于西雅图、洛杉矶和环太平洋主要国家之间的连接。这项提案专门针对太平洋波(PW)。这项提案为设备和服务提供资金，以支持西海岸的多个“着陆点”，以实现与环太平洋地区的高速连接。具体来说，在西雅图的太平洋西北千兆位交换点，以及在洛杉矶的“LAAP”交换点。这些接入点将支持通过夏威夷连接澳大利亚R&A；E社区的两条10千兆位每秒电路的归位，交换点的物理连接允许灵活的使用和从网络层到物理层的子层配置。通过这些连接服务，美国R&A；E社区将拥有从美国大陆到夏威夷和澳大利亚的高速和强大的连接。该提案声称，他们的方法不仅基于主干连接，还基于端到端连接，以引领新技术并刺激合作，特别是与终端站点的领先领域科学家的合作。

The TransLight project proposes to build on existing connections developed over the past 7 years. TransLight has two major components proposed separately: Translight/Starlight for connections in Chicago, New York, and Amsterdam, and TransLight/PacificWave serving connections between Seattle and Los Angeles and key countries around the Pacific Rim. This proposal deals specifically with Pacific Wave (PW). This proposal funds equipment and services to support multiple "landing points" on the West Coast for high speed connections to the Pacific Rim. Specifically, exchange points at the Pacific Northwest Gigapop in Seattle, and the "LAAP" exchange point in Los Angeles. These points-of-presence will support the homing of two 10-Gigabit per second circuits connecting Australia's R&E communities through Hawaii, with physical connectivity at the exchange points allowing flexible uses and sub-layer configurations ranging from the network layer down to the physical layer. Through these connection services, the U.S. R&E community will have high-speed and robust connectivity from the U.S. mainland through Hawaii and to Australia. The proposal claims their approach is based not just on backbone connectivity, but end-to-end connectivity to lead with new technologies and stimulate collaborations, especially with leading domain scientists at end sites.