The NSRC cultivates collaboration among a community of peers to build and improve a global Internet that benefits all parties. We facilitate the growth of sustainable Internet infrastructure via technical training and engineering assistance to enrich the network of networks. Our goal is to connect people.

Photos on the right Myanmar, UCAD and Bhutan

Enabling International R&E Cooperation NSRC exemplifies the NSF's stated strategic goal of "encouraging collaborative research and education across organizations, disciplines, sectors, and international boundaries." Addresses and solves problems in the field with local partners Cultivates a culture of network operators helping each other Technical training with Universities, NRENs and regional NOGs Direct engineering assistance to physically improve networks Network security and performance monitoring Wireless infrastructure to improve both faculty and student access Assists with creation of Internet Exchange Points Leverages government, industry, and private investments Equipment donations improve core infrastructure and IP services Shared cyberinfrastructure enables international scientific collaborations

PRP, Emerging NRP and a Nascent GRP Democratizing Collaborations The PRP is based on a proven and scalable network design model for optimizing science data transfers developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) – the ESnet Science DMZ. Initial results are stimulating a dialogue for leveraging untapped potential across university campuses in the U.S. and a number of other countries. In the proposed NRP architecture, the Science DMZ model would extend from a set of campus-level DMZs to an interoperable national model. How do we scale the benefits internationally, so the techniques, tools and resource sharing model can reach 100x or 1000x campus networks and research labs around the world? Our job as R&E network developers and operators is to make physical distance irrelevant for enabling scientific research and enhancing opportunities for global contributions How do we scale this platform internationally? Science DMZ everywhere?

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“The platform will play a critical role to assist African countries in developing the necessary capacities to manage and exploit scientific data for the benefit of society.” Ms. Naledi Pandor, South African Minister of Science & Technology 8 Dec. 2016

Active collaborative science projects in Kenya with a number of U. S Active collaborative science projects in Kenya with a number of U.S. university partners include: medical and pharmaceutical research, public health, climate change and remote sensing, computational biology, computational chemistry, materials science, plus agricultural and livestock research. SciVal Analytics shows more than 4500 joint publications between Kenyan and U.S. researchers from 2011 to 2016. All of these scientific domains fuel KENET and the creation of an Open Access Research Data repository in Kenya. “Establishing a Kenyan implementation of the Pacific Research Platform in Nairobi would allow researchers in the U.S. and elsewhere to efficiently pull data collected by Kenyan researchers... KENET is keen to promote Open Research Data and will be pushing the Open Science agenda.” Meoli Kashorda, CEO KENET From Kenya: 1 Gbps R&E or 10 Gbps commodity international circuits available. Kenyan certification authority accredited by EUGridPMA to allow researchers in Kenya access to grid infrastructures in Europe. Kenyan researchers need to be able to share their research data and make it available for the global community.

University of Guam FIONette Installed as part of a direct engineering assistance engagement between NSRC, CENIC and the University of Guam in May 2017. (Thank you to Tom DeFanti, Larry Smarr and John Hess!)

WTF - What’s the Future? As international R&E networks continue to evolve, the exchange of scientific research data across the global Internet is steadily increasing. Cooperation and coordination across research platforms is essential to accelerate the impacts of scientific research and discovery. Engagement of more countries and cultures around the world to adopt the PRP/GRP model enriches science communities and improves distributed cyberinfrastructure for all. Respect your peers. And I mean this in both the network sense of peering with other physical networks to efficiently exchange data, and in the human sense, of respecting and cultivating a community of peers to build and improve a global R&E network fabric that benefits all parties.