CC* Networking Infrastructure: Advancing High-speed Networking at UTC for Research and Education

包括研究人员和田纳西大学查塔努加分校(UTC)信息技术办公室在内的一个多元化的PI团队正在升级校园网络基础设施，以提高教授和学生执行、增强和扩大研发活动的能力。该项目是对UTC正在进行的其他重大投资/升级的补充，以加强园区内部和内部网络以及研究计算网络基础设施。UTC不断增长的研究组合由教员驱动，以数据为导向，推动了网络升级。该项目对100Gbit/S光纤组网基础设施、交换和路由基础设施进行了升级。科学非军事区基础设施和数据传输节点(DTN)服务器，这两个组件用于校区间协作并针对大规模数据传输进行调整，支持大数据和以数据为中心的外部协作的新兴用途。该项目升级了八栋UTC校区大楼的网络，代表所有四所大学学院(工程与计算机科学、艺术与科学、加里·W·罗林斯商学院和健康、教育与专业研究学院)，以及多学科研究大楼(MDRB)和校园图书馆。在这些建筑中，校园中至少有14个科学推动者(项目)受益于拟议的基础设施；其中几个项目要么得到国家科学基金会的资助，要么得到其他外部支持。将三个研究中心和UTC的研究计算设施放在MDRB的同一地点增加了校园影响。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

A diverse PI team including researchers and the Office of Information Technology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) is upgrading the campus network infrastructure to improve the ability for professors and students to perform, enhance, and expand R&D activities. This project complements other significant and ongoing investments/upgrades at UTC to enhance campus intra- and inter-networking and research computing cyberinfrastructure. UTC's growing research portfolio of faculty-driven, data-oriented research drives the network upgrades. 100Gbit/s fiber networking infrastructure, switching, and routing infrastructure are upgraded by this project. A Science DMZ infrastructure and Data Transfer Node (DTN) server, both components used for inter-campus collaborations and tuned for large-scale data transfers, support the emerging uses of big data and data-centric external collaborations.The project upgrades networking to eight UTC campus buildings representing all four university colleges (Engineering & Computer Science, Arts & Sciences, The Gary W. Rollins College of Business, and the College of Health, Education, and Professional Studies), as well as the Multidisciplinary Research Building (MDRB) and the campus library. In these buildings, at least fourteen science drivers (projects) on campus benefit from the proposed infrastructure; several of the projects are either NSF funded or otherwise externally supported. The co-location of three research centers plus UTC's research computing facilities in the MDRB adds to the campus impact.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.