CC*IIE Campus Design: Network Upgrade and Science DMZ to Enable High-Performance Data Transfer

沃巴什学院在培养STEM学科的本科生方面有着深厚的历史，几十年来，该学院在物理学博士学位获得者方面一直名列前茅。为了向下一代科学家提供最高质量的研究和学术机会，高性能的数据网络对于支持大型数据集的传输以及高速访问远程仪器和合作者至关重要。该项目在三个方面改进了沃巴什学院的校园网络基础设施，以支持校园内外研究人员日益增长的需求：1)它通过印第安纳州的区域网络提供商i-Light将Wabash与Internet2和其他国家研究网络的连接从1Gbps增加到10Gbps；2)它将网络核心到校园科学大楼的连接速度提高到10Gbps，并提供到这些建筑的冗余网络路径；3)新的支持10Gbps的科学DMZ确保研究人员在地区和国家研究网络中畅通无阻地进行高性能数据传输。这些基础设施的改进显著提高了Wabash科学研究网络的数据传输率和网络可靠性，使学院STEM学科的所有研究人员和学生受益。他们满足了物理、化学、生物化学、生物和数学项目的迫切研究需求，包括在国家超导回旋实验室(NSCL)和中西部本科生计算化学联盟(MU3C)的工作。

Wabash College has a strong history of educating undergraduates in STEM disciplines, and for decades the college has been highly ranked among baccalaureate institutions in originating PhD recipients in the physical sciences. In order to provide the highest-quality research and scholarship opportunities for the next generation of scientists, high-performance data networks are essential to support transfer of large data sets, as well as high-speed access to remote instruments and collaborators. This project improves the campus cyberinfrastructure at Wabash College in three areas to support increased demand by researchers, both across campus and beyond: 1) it increases Wabash's connection to Internet2 and other national research networks from 1Gbps to 10Gbps via Indiana's regional network provider, I-Light; 2) it increases the connection speed from the network core to the campus science buildings to 10Gbps and provides redundant network paths to those buildings; and 3) the new 10Gbps-capable Science DMZ ensures unimpeded high-performance data transfer for researchers across the regional and national research networks.These infrastructure improvements significantly increase data transfer rates and network reliability for Wabash's science research network, benefitting all researchers and students in STEM disciplines at the College. They address immediate research needs for projects in physics, chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and mathematics, including work at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL), and with the Midwest Undergraduate Computational Chemistry Consortium (MU3C).