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Florida LambdaRail Bi-Annual Report 2013-2014
Network Highlights
Research Excellence
From our founding, FLR has maintained a commitment to ensuring our members have the tools to achieve research excellence. Over the past two years, we have grown that support as our members have relied upon the FLR Network to extend their campus research infrastructures. They have utilized the FLR Network backbone to secure millions of dollars in grants support for infrastructure and research improvements including over $15 million from the National Science Foundation in the last two years alone for network research grants that result in maximized performance and heightened collaboration.
Below are just a few examples of the network research enabled by the FLR infrastructure:
• The University of Florida, in collaborative partnership with the other 11 FLR partner institutions, was the first FLR partner institution - and also the first higher education institution in the nation - to implement a 100G segment when they extended a link of the FLR network from Gainesville, FL to the Internet2 Advanced Layer 2 100 Gbps Service in Jacksonville, Florida. With the connection, UF created a “Science DMZ” for research and also deployed emerging technology protocols such as Software Defined Networking and Open Flow.
• FIU has secured multiple grants totaling in the millions of dollars supporting international research network connections with South America via the Atlantic Wave and Americas Lightpaths. These connection points in Miami are the primary research and education links between North and South America.
• UCF won grants to extend the reach of its newly formed dedicated research network and for deploying the Internet2 Innovation Platform on its research network. They created a full-time cyber infrastructure engineer position that is expected to expand and improve access for faculty, graduate student researchers, and undergraduates to high performance computing resources, both on and off campus.
• FSU will use grant funding to build a dedicated campus research network
to significantly accelerate both local and national transmission rates of “big data” among collaborators. These improvements form the foundation of a new research network on the campus called NoleNet Express-lane.
Over the coming months and years, FLR’s other partner institutions will be moving forward in similar fashion to these institutions - each developing many exciting applications that are poised to take advantage of the growing
FLR Infrastructure.
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