CC-NIE Network Infrastructure: NoleNet Express Lane -- A Private Network Path for Research Data Transmission at Florida State University and Beyond

佛罗里达州立大学正在建立一个专门的校园研究网络，以显著加快参与国家科学基金会资助研究的合作者之间“大数据”在当地和全国的传输速度。校园网的改进构成了新创建的NoleNet快速车道的基础。我们的工作利用未使用的或“暗光纤”的可用性，以经济有效的方式将校园网交换机与核心仪器和数据存储设施连接起来。新的网络支持用于更好地理解复杂生物分子的结构和功能、农业重要基因组的组织以及进化和种群动态的过程和模式的前沿仪器。为了与广大受众分享结果和仪器，该项目通过升级FSU校园“快速通道”网络和佛罗里达州全州光网络点到点之间的交换基础设施，将FSU与校园边界以外的研究合作伙伴的连通性提高了40倍。这些改进，加上新成立的阳光州教育与研究计算联盟（SSERCA），正在帮助增强佛罗里达州立大学支持整个佛罗里达州合作活动的能力。SSERCA致力于将佛罗里达地理上分散的教育机构聚集在一起，并创建一个网络基础设施，供佛罗里达州立大学教师使用，作为连接国家计算和数据存储资源的桥梁。将与研究相关的本地和区域网络流量路由到先进的专用网络，消除了与共享数据和仪器相关的瓶颈，并支持前沿数据分析工作流程，从而降低了科学发现的障碍。

The Florida State University is building a dedicated campus research network to significantly accelerate both local and national transmission rates of "big data" among collaborators participating in NSF funded research. The campus network improvements form the foundation of the newly created NoleNet Express-lane. Our work leverages the availability of unused or "dark fiber" to cost effectively connect campus network switches with core instrumentation and data storage facilities. The new network supports leading edge instrumentation used to better understand the structure and function of complex biological molecules, the organization of agriculturally important genomes, and the processes and patterns of evolution and population dynamics.To share results and instrumentation with a broad audience, the project improves by a factor of 40 the connectivity to research partners beyond FSU's campus boarder by upgrading the switching infrastructure between FSU's campus "Express-lane" network and Florida's statewide optical network Point-of-Presence. These improvements, coupled with the newly created Sunshine State Education & Research Computing Alliance (SSERCA), are helping to enhance FSU's ability to support collaborative activities across the state of Florida. SSERCA works to bring together Florida's geographically distributed educational institutions and to create a Cyberinfrastructure that can be used by FSU faculty as bridge to national computing and data storage resources. Routing local and regional network traffic related to research onto an advanced dedicated network lowers the barriers to scientific discovery by removing bottlenecks related to sharing data and instrumentation and supporting leading edge data analysis workflows.