NSF Org:	OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
Recipient:	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date:	August 22, 2020
Latest Amendment Date:	September 3, 2024
Award Number:	2029278
Award Instrument:	Continuing Grant
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:	December 15, 2020
End Date:	November 30, 2025 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$6,500,000.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$6,516,000.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2020 = $5,238,543.00 FY 2022 = $16,000.00 FY 2024 = $1,261,457.00
History of Investigator:	Julio Ibarra (Principal Investigator) julio@fiu.edu Yufeng Xin (Co-Principal Investigator) Heidi Morgan (Co-Principal Investigator) Jeronimo Bezerra (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	Florida International University 11200 SW 8TH ST MIAMI FL  US  33199-2516 (305)348-2494
Sponsor Congressional District:	26
Primary Place of Performance:	Florida International University 11200 SW 8TH ST Miami FL  US  33199-0001
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	26
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	Q3KCVK5S9CP1
Parent UEI:	Q3KCVK5S9CP1
NSF Program(s):	International Res Ret Connect
Primary Program Source:	01002223DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002425DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002021DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s):	9251, 9102
Program Element Code(s):	736900
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.070

ABSTRACT

Open Exchange Points (OXPs) serve as meet points for connecting and facilitating the exchange of data between Research and Education (R&E) networks. They are critical cyberinfrastructure in the transit of data over long geographical distances, switching data flows from one R&E network to the next, to its destination. For example, data from the Vera Rubin Observatory will transit 6 OXPs as it moves from the southern to northern hemispheres. Operationalizing the transit of data flows across OXPs is increasingly important to minimize the impact from events on network services (hardware failures and soft failures). End-to-end network paths for these data flows are not under the control of any individual organization. Multiple R&E network operators must coordinate to establish geographically distributed end-to-end paths ? an effort that can take days to weeks.

Florida International University (FIU), University of Southern California ? Information Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - RENCI are furthering AtlanticWave-SDX: a distributed experimental SDX, supporting research, experimental deployments, prototyping and interoperability testing, on national and international scales. AtlanticWave-SDX leverages innovations from the initial AtlanticWave-SDX project, introducing new capabilities, enabling OXPs to react to unplanned network events by adding intelligent closed-loop control of network services powered by in-band network telemetry.

AWAVE-SDX is comprised of two components: An infrastructure development component with optical super channels to reframe and reprovision network capacity between R&E backbone networks; An innovation component to build a distributed intercontinental experimental SDX by leveraging OXPs in the U.S., Chile, Brazil, and S. Africa.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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