| NSF Org: |
OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | April 2, 2015 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | February 23, 2021 |
| Award Number: | 1451024 |
| Award Instrument: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Program Manager: |
Kevin Thompson
kthompso@nsf.gov (703)292-4220 OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | April 1, 2015 |
| End Date: | March 31, 2022 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $3,658,020.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $4,128,522.00 |
| Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2016 = $452,376.00 FY 2017 = $2,456,833.00 FY 2020 = $470,502.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
11200 SW 8TH ST MIAMI FL US 33199-2516 (305)348-2494 |
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| Primary Place of Performance: |
FL US 33199-0001 |
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| NSF Program(s): | International Res Ret Connect |
| Primary Program Source: |
01001617DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01001718DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01001819DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01001920DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002021DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
Demand is growing to develop the capability to support end-to-end services, capable of spanning multiple Software Defined Networking (SDN) domains. SDN deployments that cross multiple domains continue to be constructed manually, involving significant coordination and effort by network operators. Moreover, the demand for more intelligent network services to support the evolving science research and education activities between the U.S. and South America are increasing; these network services, which include dynamic provisioning of end-to-end multi-domain layer2 circuits, and network programmability, are needed to foster innovation for application developers, and to increase efficiency for network operators. AtlanticWave-SDX is a response to the demand for more intelligent network services to foster innovation and to increase network efficiency.
Florida International University (FIU) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) are implementing AtlanticWave-SDX: a distributed experimental Software-Defined Exchange (SDX), supporting research, experimental deployments, prototyping and interoperability testing, on national and international scales. A Software-Defined Exchange (SDX) will provide a capability to prototype an OpenFlow network where members of each Internet peering fabric could exchange traffic based in different layers of abstraction.
AtlanticWave-SDX is comprised of two components: (1) a network infrastructure development component to bridge 100G of network capacity between Research and Education (R&E) backbone networks in the U.S. and South America; and (2) an innovation component to build a distributed intercontinental experimental SDX between the U.S. and South America, by leveraging open exchange point resources at SoX (Atlanta), AMPATH (Miami), and Southern Light (São Paulo, Brazil).
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The AtlanticWave-SDX project successfully built a distributed experimental SDX between the U.S. and South America. A Software Defined eXchange (SDX) seeks to introduce Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies into academic exchange points to optimize provisioning and traffic engineering across multiple administrative domains. Typically, Software Defined Networks (SDN) deployments that cross multiple domains are constructed manually, involving significant coordination and effort by network operators. FIU, RENCI, USC-ISI and Georgia Tech University built the AtlanticWave-SDX project as a response to the growing demand to enhance support for end-to-end network services spanning multiple SDN domains.
AtlanticWave-SDX is comprised of two components: (1) a network infrastructure development component to bridge 100G of network capacity between R&E backbone networks in the U.S. and S. America; and (2) an innovation component to build a distributed intercontinental experimental SDX between the U.S. and S. America, by leveraging open exchange point resources at SoX (Atlanta), AMPATH (Miami), AndesLight (Santiago, Chile) and Southern Light (São Paulo, Brazil).
The following are significant accomplishments of the AtlanticWave-SDX project: (1) Activated spectrum from Boca Raton to Sao Paulo and to Fortaleza. A total of 400Gbps of bandwidth was activated using 150GHz of spectrum: 200Gbps to Fortaleza and 200Gbps to Sao Paulo. Two 300Gbps channels were activated between Boca Raton and Miami. (2) Instrumented 100G Ethernet waves with In-band Network Telemetry (INT). (3) Mentored 16 students by involving them in a wide range of AtlanticWave-SDX software development and network engineering activities.
Going forward, AtlanticWave-SDX is evolving by building upon new technologies and paradigms to improve support for science workflows: Data Transfer Nodes (DTNs), In-band Network Telemetry (INT), distributed compute and data infrastructure, research and dedicated network testbeds, and new inter-domain federated orchestrators. In-band network telemetry is a technology that enables per-packet visibility at scale. With this new capability, AtlanticWave-SDX will be able to support science applications with high availability SLA requirements, such as the Vera Rubin Observatory. AtlanticWave-SDX enabled Open Exchange Points will be more resilient and able to handle events that can result in failures to the network data plane, control plane and management plane. Network operators will be able to collect per-packet network telemetry reports and notify users and science projects in less than 200ms.
Last Modified: 07/08/2022
Modified by: Julio Ibarra
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