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The NASA NREN Project encourages active participation from U.S. industry, particularly in advanced communications systems and networking protocols. Cooperation makes it possible to minimize redundant, costly R&D efforts and furthers successful transfer and commercialization of technology. NREN will form collaborative teams of hardware and software developers, and government and private sector applications developers. Project milestones will be developed jointly by government, industry, and academia, and NASA will establish a Joint Sponsored Research Agreement (JSRA) as the vehicle for collaboration. Annual workshop are held to discuss the strategic direction of the NREN project and share views on the work the project has undertaken.
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NREN works closely with industry, academia and its federal partners to transfer, integrate and scale appropriate advanced networking technologies to the commercial sector. Active technology transfer and integration will reduce operations costs, increase scientific productivity, increase mission success probability, enhance science and technology transfer mechanisms, and increase service reliability for NASA and the commercial Internet community.
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Milestone: Demonstrate 100 times end-to-end performance improvement of Grand Challenge and/or NASA mission applications based on FY 1996 performance measurements across NASA NREN testbeds over 155 Mbps WAN. (Due 9/97. On schedule)
Progress: NREN continues to collaborate with applications work groups to complete engineering design and implementation plans to meet this milestone. The top five applications will be highlighted at the September Workshop. The Web-based application database is operational (http://www.nren.nasa.gov/apps.htm). Implementation activities continue on applications across NREN including Mars Pathfinder, Nomad Rover, Virtual Simulation Laboratory, Echocardiography and Collaborative Simulation. A performance baseline comparison has been developed from raw NREN and NASA Internet data. Milestone: Establish a next generation internetwork exchange for NASA to connect Grand Challenge university principal investigators to NASA high performance resources. (Due 10/98. On schedule.) Progress: The NGI Implementation Team drafted an interagency implementation plan for NGI, the Ames Commercialization Office is establishing collaborative agreements with industry and academia, and meetings with Cisco and Fore have been held to begin work on draft agreements. Agreement has been reached with interagency partners on initial NGIX architecture. Three exchanges will be established interconnecting NASA, NSF, DOE and DOD networks: one on the West Coast (Ames), one in the midwest (Chicago), one on the east Coast (DC). Furthermore, NASA and DOE agreed to cost share OC-3 service to the Chicago and DC NGIX. NASA will establish peering and transit arrangement with the federal agencies, gigaPOP operators and international networks at these exchanges for research networking applications. Milestone: Demonstrate 500 times end-to-end performance improvement of Grand Challenge and/or NASA mission applications based on FY 1996 performance measurements across NASA NREN testbeds over 622 Mbps wide area network. (Due 9/99. On schedule) Progress: Engineering economics discussions on OC-12 are continuing with Sprint for implementation at NASA sites in late 1997. Collaboration with industry to establish JSRAs is in progress. Milestone: Demonstrate high performance network applications across interagency high performance testbed (gigabit per second range and enhanced network services architecture) using NASA NREN. (Due 9/02. On schedule) Progress: Implementation of a Sprint POP at NASA Ames for increased capacity and technology collaboration in high performance networking testbeds has been designed, and installation is to be completed by October 1997.
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