CC*IIE Region: Southern Partnership in Advanced Networking (SPAN)

南方高级网络伙伴关系（SPAN）支持访问分布式数据/计算密集型基础设施（包括技术和人力）在广泛学科的研究和教育努力中发挥日益重要的作用。随着全国各地的校园IT组织建立和扩展基础设施组件以满足用户的需求，校园之间和校园之间的协调对于创建可在多种环境中实施的成功、可持续、可扩展和灵活的解决方案变得至关重要。将这些基础设施连接在一起的是网络，它已成为网络基础设施生态系统的重要组成部分。SPAN是克莱姆森大学、南卡罗来纳州立大学、佐治亚州立大学和佐治亚大学之间的合作伙伴关系，旨在建立一个跨南方的实践者区域社区，以支持下一代网络。SPAN与南方十字路口倡议、Internet2和ESnet合作，为南方各机构的管理人员、校园IT小组和研究人员提供研讨会、实地考察和最佳实践文档，包括实践培训、专家演讲和现场建议，内容涉及网络升级和网络安全等主题，以协助他们制定和部署自己的校园网络基础设施计划。重要的是，SPAN促进了分布式科学社区的创建，并使新的合作能够利用先进的网络解决方案来实现新的科学发现。这个分布在多个机构之间的区域专家网络的创建，将支持教师主导的研究，这些研究将受益于先进的网络功能，这将改变整个地区的研究方式。

The Southern Partnership in Advanced Networking (SPAN) supports the increasingly critical role that access to distributed data/compute-intensive infrastructure, both technical and human, is playing in research and education endeavors across a wide range of disciplines. As campus IT groups around the country build and expand infrastructure components to address the needs of their users, coordination between and across campuses has become critical to create successful, sustainable, scalable, and flexible solutions that can be implemented in multiple settings. Tying this infrastructure together is the network, which has become an essential piece of the cyberinfrastructure ecosystem.SPAN is a partnership between Clemson University, South Carolina State University, Georgia State University, and the University of Georgia that is building a regional community of practitioners across the South that supports next-generation networking. In collaboration with the Southern Crossroads initiative, Internet2, and ESnet, SPAN offers a program of workshops, site visits, and best practices documentation to administrators, campus IT groups, and researchers at institutions across the South that includes hands-on training, expert presentations, and in situ recommendations on topics such as network upgrades and cybersecurity to assist in the development and deployment of their own Campus Cyberinfrastructure Plans.Significantly, SPAN facilitates the creation of distributed science communities and enables new collaborations that can leverage advanced networking solutions to make new science discoveries. The creation of this regional network of expertise distributed across multiple institutions in support of faculty-led research that benefits from advanced networking capabilities will transform the way research is done across the region.