CC-NIE Network Infrastructure: NoleNet Express Lane -- A Private Network Path for Research Data Transmission at Florida State University and Beyond

佛罗里达州立大学正在建立一个专门的校园研究网络，以显著加快参与NSF资助研究的合作者之间的"大数据"的本地和全国传输速率。校园网络的改进构成了新创建的NoleNet通道的基础。我们的工作是利用未使用或"暗光纤"的可用性，以经济高效的方式将园区网络交换机与核心仪器和数据存储设施连接起来。 新网络支持前沿仪器，用于更好地了解复杂生物分子的结构和功能，农业重要基因组的组织，以及进化和种群动态的过程和模式。为了与广泛的受众分享结果和仪器，该项目通过升级交换基础设施，将与FSU校园边界以外的研究合作伙伴的连通性提高了40倍，FSU的校园"双车道"网络和佛罗里达的全州光纤网络接入点。这些改进，再加上新成立的阳光州教育研究计算联盟（SSERCA），有助于提高FSU的能力，以支持整个佛罗里达州的协作活动。& SSERCA致力于汇集佛罗里达地理分布的教育机构，并创建一个网络基础设施，可由FSU教师作为桥梁，以国家计算和数据存储资源。 将与研究相关的本地和区域网络流量路由到先进的专用网络，通过消除与共享数据和仪器相关的瓶颈并支持前沿数据分析工作流程，降低了科学发现的障碍。

The Florida State University is building a dedicated campus research network to significantly accelerate both local and national transmission rates of "big data" among collaborators participating in NSF funded research. The campus network improvements form the foundation of the newly created NoleNet Express-lane. Our work leverages the availability of unused or "dark fiber" to cost effectively connect campus network switches with core instrumentation and data storage facilities. The new network supports leading edge instrumentation used to better understand the structure and function of complex biological molecules, the organization of agriculturally important genomes, and the processes and patterns of evolution and population dynamics.To share results and instrumentation with a broad audience, the project improves by a factor of 40 the connectivity to research partners beyond FSU's campus boarder by upgrading the switching infrastructure between FSU's campus "Express-lane" network and Florida's statewide optical network Point-of-Presence. These improvements, coupled with the newly created Sunshine State Education & Research Computing Alliance (SSERCA), are helping to enhance FSU's ability to support collaborative activities across the state of Florida. SSERCA works to bring together Florida's geographically distributed educational institutions and to create a Cyberinfrastructure that can be used by FSU faculty as bridge to national computing and data storage resources. Routing local and regional network traffic related to research onto an advanced dedicated network lowers the barriers to scientific discovery by removing bottlenecks related to sharing data and instrumentation and supporting leading edge data analysis workflows.