US Ignite: Track 2: Sustainable Ecosystem of Smart Applications

广泛可用的先进网络的经济和竞争价值已经众所周知，下一代网络的可用性影响因素与房主财产价值和房屋租金一样基本。 然而，美国城市和地区的下一代网络部署落后于其他一些国家。 该项目组装并启动了一个不断增长的可持续的智能千兆城市测试平台生态系统，支持在医疗保健，教育，公共安全和其他国家优先领域提供重要新进展的应用程序。这些先进的生态系统利用了NSF先前研究项目开发的先进互联网概念，这些概念在当今的商业互联网上还不可用。通过利用现有的多千兆位链路来互连城市，并通过提供基于城市的可互操作应用基础设施，该项目允许一个城市的企业家和学者编写和试用视觉上引人注目的和超响应的新互联网应用程序，这些应用程序可以复制到其他城市和地区。 一个重要的关键是让公民和社区组织参与建设和试验针对国家优先事项的先进联网应用程序。 该项目将：1）动员和连接12到15个城市和地区作为智能千兆城市试验台，并连接到美国UCAN社区锚社区的少量其他志愿者; 2）利用GENI技术，部署新的以社区为中心的计算基础设施;支持开发和调整国家优先事项和智慧城市应用程序，这些应用程序可以独特地利用这一基础设施，并可以在其他城市复制和区域; 4）确定新的未解决的问题，可以帮助定义未来的互联网研究领域和5）在生态系统参与者之间共享信息。 为了最大限度地发挥网络效应，该项目将利用可互操作的先进有线和无线应用平台、可互操作的联合、认证和授权以及内置的安全措施和测量/记录。该项目在分布式基础设施的基础上建立了初始基础设施，该基础设施由GENI和美国56个城市的学术或公民网络基础设施中的先前美国网络项目开创和部署。

The economic and competitive value of widely available advanced networking has become well known, with availabity of next generation networking impacting factors as basic as homeowner property values and housing rents. However, deployment of next generation networking in U.S. cities and regions has lagged that of a number of other nations. This project assembles and jump-starts a growing and sustainable ecosystem of smart gigabit city testbeds which support applications delivering important new advances in healthcare, education, public safety, and other national priority areas. These advanced ecosystems leverage advanced Internet concepts developed by prior NSF research programs that are not yet available on today's commercial Internet. By leveraging existing multi-gigabit links to interconnect the cities, and by providing city-based interoperable application infrastructure the project allows entrepreneurs and academics in one city to write and trial visually-compelling and ultra-responsive new Internet applications that can be replicated into other cities and regions. An important key will be the involvement of citizens and community organizations in building and experimenting with advanced networking applications addressing national priorities. The project will: 1) Mobilize and interconnect 12 to 15 cities and regions as smart gigabit city testbeds and connect to a small number of other volunteers from the U.S. UCAN community anchor community; 2) leverage GENI technology and deploy a new community-focused computing infrastructure; support the develop and adapt national priority and smart city applications that uniquely leverage this infrastructure and can be replicated in the other cities and regions; 4) Identify novel unsolved problems that can help define areas for future Internet research and 5) share information among ecosystem participants. To maximize the network effects, the project will utilize interoperable advanced wired and wireless applications platforms, interoperable federation, authentication and authorization, and built-in security measures and measurement/logging. This project builds the initial infrastructure upon the distributed infrastructure pioneered and deployed by the GENI and prior US Ignite projects in the academic or civic networking infrastructures of 56 cities in the United States.