CC* Regional: Sun Corridor Network ? Arizona Community College Research Expansion

北亚利桑那大学（NAU）与亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）和亚利桑那大学（UA）一起是太阳走廊网络（SCN）的创始成员。SCN通过高速连接和Internet2向亚利桑那州的研究型大学提供研究和教育网络。亚利桑那社区学院的研究和专业网络连接是有限的，通常无法用于学术或专业技术课程。该项目将全国最大的社区学院系统之一和NAU北部的合作伙伴连接到SCN。网络扩展到亚利桑那州的社区学院，为马里科帕社区学院县区的Estrella Mountain社区学院（固德尔，AZ）、钱德勒-吉尔伯特社区学院（钱德勒，AZ）、凤凰城学院（凤凰城，AZ）和科科尼诺社区学院（Flagstaff， AZ）的学生和教师提供研究和教育联系和支持。网络扩展推进了面向科学的工作流程、本科研究中的高性能计算、仪器共享、STEM教育和作业间隙连接的使用，并引入了符合网络安全学术要求的广域和校园网络能力。NAU和SCN将提高校园网的性能，通过将每个校园作为区域聚合器连接到SCN，增加与每个校园的外部连接。这充分利用了与NAU现有的强大区域关系，NAU是农村和在线项目和服务的领导者。该提案强调外联，以确定需求和要求，其次是设计、研讨会和科学网络的实施。通过建立新的合作和扩大联系，NAU和SCN为菲尼克斯大都市区和亚利桑那州北部的20多万名学生改善了本科科学和技术教学。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a founding member of the Sun Corridor Network (SCN) along with Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Arizona (UA). SCN delivers research and education networking to Arizona's research universities through high-speed connections and Internet2. Research and specialized network connectivity at Arizona community colleges are limited and generally unavailable to academic or to specialized technical programs. This project connects one of the nation's largest community college systems and the northern NAU collaborator to SCN. Network expansion to Arizona's community colleges enables research and education connectivity and support to the students and faculty of Maricopa Community College County District's Estrella Mountain Community College (Goodyear, AZ), Chandler-Gilbert Community College (Chandler, AZ), Phoenix College (Phoenix, AZ) and Coconino Community College, (Flagstaff, AZ). The network expansion advances the use of science-oriented workflows, high performance computing in undergraduate research, instrument sharing, STEM education, and homework gap connectivity and introduces wide area and campus networking capacities that align with cybersecurity academic requirements. NAU and SCN will improve campus network performance, increasing external connectivity to each campus by connecting them to SCN as a regional aggregator. This leverages a strong existing regional relationship with NAU, a leader in rural and online programs and services. The proposal emphasizes outreach to determine needs and requirements, followed by design, workshops, and science network implementation. By building new collaborations and by expanding connectivity, NAU and SCN improve undergraduate science and technical instruction for over 200,000 students in the Phoenix metropolitan area and northern Arizona.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.