US Ignite: Track 2: Sustainable Ecosystem of Smart Applications

广泛使用的高级网络的经济和竞争价值已广为人知，下一代网络的可用性影响着房主财产价值和住房租金等基本因素。然而，下一代网络在美国城市和地区的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和可持续的千兆城市测试床生态系统，这些测试床支持在医疗保健、教育、公共安全和其他国家优先领域取得重要新进展的应用程序。这些先进的生态系统利用了由NSF以前的研究计划开发的先进的互联网概念，这些概念在今天的商业互联网上尚不存在。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的应用程序基础设施，该项目允许一个城市的企业家和学者编写和试验视觉上具有吸引力和超高响应性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。一个重要的关键将是公民和社区组织参与建立和试验针对国家优先事项的先进网络应用程序。该项目将：1)动员和互联12到15个城市和地区作为智能千兆城市试验床，并连接到来自美国Ucan社区锚定社区的少数其他志愿者；2)利用GENI技术和部署新的以社区为中心的计算基础设施；支持UCan开发和调整国家重点和智能城市应用，以独特地利用这一基础设施，并可以在其他城市和地区复制；4)发现新的未解决的问题，有助于确定未来互联网研究的领域；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果，该项目将利用可互操作的高级有线和无线应用平台、可互操作的联合、身份验证和授权以及内置的安全措施和测量/记录。该项目在GENI和之前的美国Ignite项目在美国56个城市的学术或公民网络基础设施中率先和部署的分布式基础设施的基础上建立了初始基础设施。

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.