IRNC: RXP - Pacific Wave Expansion Supporting SDX & Experimentation

Pacific Wave是一个分布式的开放式互联网交换平台，它通过位于洛杉矶、森尼维尔和西雅图的入网点，在美国的研究和教育网络与国际同行之间提供高性能的连接。这些设施是关键的基础设施，提供高性能的先进网络，使大规模数据流、访问高性能计算和远程可视化成为所有科学和工程领域(包括天文学、生物学、生物医学工程、材料科学、医学、地球科学、高能物理和海洋学)合作研究所必需的。该奖项用于加强和扩大太平洋波生产基础设施，以支持美国研究和教育网络与来自太平洋沿岸国家(包括澳大利亚、加拿大、日本、墨西哥、新西兰、新加坡、韩国和台湾)的国际同行之间的多个100千兆位每秒的连接。许多研究和教育网络正在开发基于软件定义网络的新型网络体系结构，以更好地支持它们所服务的科学和工程社区的需求。项目活动还包括开发一套并行的网络连接设施，包括一个分布式软件定义的交换，以互连这些新兴的软件定义的网络。该奖项支持的太平洋波扩展项目通过与目前与太平洋波交换相连的17个主要国际研究和教育网络的参与，以及与国际研究网络连接计划的其他获奖者和美国科学和工程研究界的信息和技术交流，实现了这些目标。

Pacific Wave is a distributed open internet exchange that provides high performance connectivity among US research and education networks and their international counterparts through points of presence in Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, and Seattle. These facilities are essential infrastructure providing high-performance advanced networking that enables the large-scale data flows, access to high performance computing, and remote visualization necessary for collaborative research in all areas of science and engineering including astronomy, biology, bio-medical engineering, materials science, medicine, earth sciences, high-energy physics, and oceanography.This award funds enhancement and expansion of the Pacific Wave production infrastructure to support multiple 100 gigabit-per-second connections among US-based research and education networks and international counterparts from countries of the Pacific Rim including Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. Many research and education networks are developing novel network architectures based on Software Defined Networking to better support the demands of the science and engineering communities that they serve. Project activities also include the development of a parallel set of network connection facilities comprising a distributed Software Defined Exchange to interconnect these emerging Software Defined Networks. The Pacific Wave Expansion project supported by this award achieves these objectives through engagement with the 17 major international research and education networks currently connected to the Pacific Wave exchange and through information and technology exchange with other awardees of the International research network connections program and the US science and engineering research community.