IRNC: ProNet - TransLight / Pacific Wave

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）在过去十年中建立的密切有效合作的基础上，旨在为亚太半球的研究和教育（R&amp；E）网络创建和运营统一的分布式交换服务。TL/PW将为包括Internet2、国家Lambda Rail和联邦机构网络在内的所有美国R&amp；E网络提供面向西方的统一连接，使其能够与超过15个国际R&amp；E链路（包括由其他NSF IRNC项目资助的链路）实现一般和特定的对接，服务于数十个国家。网络1、2和3层的分布式对等服务将使项目能够无缝地支持特定领域的项目，同时继续致力于公平共享全球研发网络服务。TL/PW将与Internet2、National Lambda Rail、其他IRNC获奖者和国际网络合作，为国际研究社区提供无缝的演进生产网络服务。TL/PW不打算购买新的国际航线，这一事实证明了TL/PW对国家和世界的价值。相反，TL/PW资金将用于为该区域从事研发和电子联网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，该项目在南十字星电缆网络海底光纤系统上提供从澳大利亚到夏威夷到美国西海岸的两条10Gbps电路。该项目不仅连接了澳大利亚的R&amp；E网络社区，还为世界上最重要的天文台——夏威夷大岛的莫纳克亚山顶——提供了连接。莫纳克亚山天文台包括13个国家对世界上一些最重要的网络基础设施资源的超过10亿美元的国际投资。TL/PW还将继续推进和支持澳大拉西亚和太平洋区域的研究网络连接。TL/PW的智力价值源于其对端到端连接和网络进步的支持，这激发了领先领域科学家和网络基础设施工程师之间的创新。TL/PW通过创新，为全球研发网络社区创建了世界模范分布式交换，并将继续推进可靠和具有成本效益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将重点关注云计算等新兴网络支持的可持续服务，并将发挥特殊的领导作用，在其服务领域特有的领域（天文和海洋观测）支持主要的国际科学网络基础设施。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将产生更广泛的影响，因为它使美国研究人员能够轻松地与世界上许多发展最快的地区的同事合作。TL/PW在支持全球访问大型国际传感器网络方面处于优越地位，如nsf资助的海洋观测站倡议和包括莫纳克亚天文台在内的大量国际望远镜投资。TL/PW与包括亚马逊和微软在内的主要商业参与者合作，将积极推动云计算服务的发展，研究人员将越来越多地将其应用于研究中，作为一种更环保、更经济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&amp；E网络扩展到太平洋岛屿，这些岛屿对于了解气候变化、海平面上升和海洋酸化等全球现象至关重要。

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.