CC-NIE Networking Infrastructure: FlowWave: Enabling High Bandwidth Science Data Flows

FlowWave项目创建了一个密集波分复用（DWDM）解决方案，用于隔离和保护研究人员专用的光路。 FlowWave将大学的科学网络基础设施与区域，国家和国际研究网络连接起来，为研究人员保留光波，以支持端到端的科学流。FlowWave通过为研究电路创建独特的专用路径来增强校园网络，以支持有针对性的科学应用驱动程序，从而增加科学流和数据驱动的发现。它通过将专用于互连研究资源的电路与大学的其他流量分开来提供保障。 受益于该解决方案的最初科学应用套件是在物理和计算科学中，应用于高能物理，光学天文学，气候建模，实时大规模网络模拟和云计算领域。研究人员和他们的学生在FIU（美国大陆最大的西班牙裔少数民族服务机构）可以访问和共享大规模实验的资源。 校园IT人员保证，在科学网络基础设施上执行的实验不会影响生产服务。光纤链路上的生产和研究流的分离有助于使用SDN（软件定义网络）在研究链路上配置切片，从而实现电路的即时配置。

The FlowWave project creates a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) solution that segregates and protects light paths dedicated for researchers. FlowWave bridges the University's science cyberinfrastructure to regional, national and international research networks in light waves reserved for researchers in order to support end-to-end science flows. FlowWave enhances the campus network by creating a distinct and dedicated path for research circuits to support targeted science application drivers towards increasing science flows and data-driven discovery. It provides a safeguard by separating the circuits dedicated for interconnecting research resources from the rest of the University traffic. The initial suite of science applications benefiting from this solution are in the physical and computational sciences with applications in the domains of high-energy physics, optical astronomy, climate modeling, real-time large-scale network simulation, and cloud computing. Researchers and their students at FIU (the largest Hispanic minority serving institution within the continental U.S.) can access and share resources for at-scale experiments. Campus IT staff are assured that experiments executed on the science cyberinfrastructure will not affect production services. The separation of production and research flows across the fiber link facilitates the use of SDN (software define networking) to provision slices across the research link enabling instant provisioning of circuits.