IRNC: ProNet - TransLight / Pacific Wave

transLight/Pacific Wave（TL/PW）项目建立在过去十年中夏威夷大学、太平洋西北Gigapop（PNWGP）和加州教育网络倡议公司（CENIC）之间建立的密切有效合作的基础上，为亚太半球的研究和教育（RE）网络创建和运营统一的分布式交换服务。 TL/PW将为所有美国R E网络（包括Internet 2、国家Lambda铁路和联邦机构网络）提供面向西方的统一连接，使一般和特定的网络能够与超过15个国际R E链接，包括由其他NSF IRNC项目资助的网络，为数十个国家提供服务。 网络层1、2和3的分布式对等服务将允许该项目无缝地支持特定领域的项目，同时保持致力于公平共享的全球R E网络服务。 TL/PW将与Internet 2、National Lambda Rail、其他IRNC获奖者和国际网络合作，为国际研究界提供无缝演进的生产网络服务。 TL/PW对国家和世界的价值体现在TL/PW不打算购买新的国际线路。 相反，TL/PW资金将用于为该地区从事R E联网的人提供国内回程、托管、支持和便利。TL/PW将为AARNet的SX-TransPORT项目提供国内支持，该项目在南十字星电缆网络海底光纤系统上提供从澳大利亚到夏威夷再到美国西海岸的两条10 Gbps电路。 该项目不仅连接了澳大利亚的R E网络社区，还为世界上首屈一指的天文观测站提供了连接，即夏威夷大岛上的莫纳克亚山山顶。 莫纳克亚天文台包括13个国家对世界上一些最重要的网络基础设施资源的10亿多美元的国际投资。 TL/PW还将继续推进和支持澳大拉西亚和太平洋地区的研究网络连接。TL/PW的智力优势来自其对端到端连接和网络进步的支持，这些连接和网络进步刺激了领先领域科学家和网络基础设施工程师的创新。 TL/PW致力于创新，创造世界上分布式交换的典范，服务于全球R E网络社区，并将继续推进可靠和具有成本效益的全球网络基础设施，以满足更广泛的研究和教育需求。TL/PW将专注于新兴的网络支持的可持续服务，如云计算，并将承担特殊的领导作用，以支持其服务领域独特的主要国际科学网络基础设施：天文学和海洋观测站。TL/PW将推动科学发现的进步，并在此过程中，推进网络基础设施支持的研究和教育的状态。TL/PW的更广泛影响将来自其全面支持美国研究人员轻松地与世界上许多发展最快的地区的同事合作。TL/PW处于非常有利的地位，可以支持全球接入大型国际传感器网络，如NSF资助的海洋观测站计划以及对构成莫纳克亚天文台的望远镜的大量国际投资。 TL/PW将与包括亚马逊和微软在内的主要商业参与者合作，积极推进云计算服务的发展，调查人员将越来越多地将其应用于研究，作为一种更环保、更具成本效益的网络基础设施部署方法。TL/PW还计划利用其独特的定位，将R E网络扩展到太平洋岛屿，这些岛屿对于了解气候变化、海平面上升和海洋酸化等全球现象至关重要。

The TransLight/Pacific Wave (TL/PW) project builds on close and effective collaborations built over the last decade among the University of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP), and the Corporation for Educational Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) to create and operate a unified distributed exchange service for Research and Education (R&E) networking in the Asia-Pacific hemisphere. TL/PW will present a unified connectivity face toward the West for all US R&E networks including Internet2, National Lambda Rail and Federal agency networks, enabling general and specific peerings with more than 15 international R&E links, including those funded by other NSF IRNC projects, serving scores of countries. Distributed peering services at network Layers 1, 2 and 3 will allow the project to seamlessly support domain-specific projects while remaining committed to equitable shared global R&E network services. TL/PW will work with Internet2, National Lambda Rail, the other IRNC awardees and international networks to provide seamless evolutionary production networking services to the international research community. The value of TL/PW to the nation and the world is demonstrated by the fact that TL/PW is not proposing to buy new international links. Rather, TL/PW funding will be used to provide domestic backhaul, hosting, support and facilitation for those engaged in R&E networking in the region. TL/PW will provide domestic support for AARNet's SX-TransPORT project, which provides two 10Gbps circuits from Australia to Hawaii to the West Coast of the U.S. on the Southern Cross Cable Network submarine fiber system. This project not only connects Australia's R&E networking community but also provides connectivity for the world's premiere setting for astronomical observatories, the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii. The Mauna Kea observatories comprise over $1 billion of international investment by 13 countries in some of the most important cyberinfrastructure resources in the world. TL/PW will also continue to advance and support research network connections in the Australasia and Pacific regions.The Intellectual Merit of TL/PW derives from its championing of end-to-end connectivity and network advancement that stimulates innovation among leading domain scientists and cyberinfrastructure engineers. TL/PW has innovated to create the world's model distributed exchange serving the global R&E networking community, and will continue to advance reliable and cost-effective global cyberinfrastructure to meet broader research and education needs. TL/PW will focus on emerging network-enabled sustainable services, like cloud computing, and will take on a special leadership role to support major international scientific cyberinfrastructure in areas unique to its service area: astronomy and ocean observatories. TL/PW will enable the advancement of scientific discovery, and in so doing, advance the state of cyberinfrastructure-empowered research and education.The Broader Impact of TL/PW will result from its sweeping enablement of US researchers to easily collaborate with their colleagues in many of the fastest-developing parts of the world. TL/PW is superbly positioned to support global access to large-scale international sensor networks like the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative and the substantial international investment in telescopes that comprise the Mauna Kea Observatories. Working with major commercial players, including Amazon and Microsoft, TL/PW will actively advance the state of cloud computing services that investigators will increasingly apply in their research as a greener and more cost-effective approach to cyberinfrastructure deployment. TL/PW also plans to leverage its unique positioning to extend R&E networking into the Pacific Islands, which are central to understanding the global phenomena of climate change, sea-level rise and ocean acidification.