CC-NIE Networking Infrastructure: FlowWave: Enabling High Bandwidth Science Data Flows

FlowWave项目创建了一种密集波分复用(DWDM)解决方案，用于隔离和保护专供研究人员使用的光路。FlowWave在为研究人员保留的光波中将大学的科学网络基础设施与区域、国家和国际研究网络连接起来，以支持端到端的科学流动。FlowWave通过为研究电路创建一条独特的专用路径来增强园区网络，以支持目标明确的科学应用驱动因素，从而增加科学流动和数据驱动的发现。它通过将专用于互连研究资源的电路与大学的其他流量分开来提供保护。首批受益于该解决方案的科学应用是在物理和计算科学领域，应用领域包括高能物理、光学天文学、气候建模、实时大规模网络模拟和云计算。FIU(美国大陆最大的拉美裔少数族裔服务机构)的研究人员和他们的学生可以访问和共享大规模实验的资源。校园IT员工得到保证，在科学网络基础设施上进行的实验不会影响生产服务。光纤链路上的生产和研究流程的分离有助于使用SDN(软件定义网络)在研究链路上配置切片，从而实现电路的即时配置。

The FlowWave project creates a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) solution that segregates and protects light paths dedicated for researchers. FlowWave bridges the University's science cyberinfrastructure to regional, national and international research networks in light waves reserved for researchers in order to support end-to-end science flows. FlowWave enhances the campus network by creating a distinct and dedicated path for research circuits to support targeted science application drivers towards increasing science flows and data-driven discovery. It provides a safeguard by separating the circuits dedicated for interconnecting research resources from the rest of the University traffic. The initial suite of science applications benefiting from this solution are in the physical and computational sciences with applications in the domains of high-energy physics, optical astronomy, climate modeling, real-time large-scale network simulation, and cloud computing. Researchers and their students at FIU (the largest Hispanic minority serving institution within the continental U.S.) can access and share resources for at-scale experiments. Campus IT staff are assured that experiments executed on the science cyberinfrastructure will not affect production services. The separation of production and research flows across the fiber link facilitates the use of SDN (software define networking) to provision slices across the research link enabling instant provisioning of circuits.