MAX is enhancing its Research and Education (R&E) metro network facilities with emerging 100 Gigabits per second (100 Gb/s) capability to support data intensive science exploration, modeling, and discovery. The MAX R&E network will upgrade its 10 Gb/s peering connections to 100 Gb/s with Internet2, the Energy Sciences network (ESnet), National Lambda Rail (NLR) (all of whom have plans for upgrading to 100 Gb/s), and the Next Generation Internet Exchange-East (NGIX-E) exchange point operated by MAX for the federal research networks.
MAX is involved in a number of research activities through federally-funded research projects. We conduct research in some core areas around dynamic optical networks, control plane architectures, OpenFlow management, optical performance, network virtualization, and next-generation terabit interfaces. MAX is an active participant in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Global Environment For Network Innovations (GENI) program. Its research network is one of the GENI substrates for dynamic optical network virtualization.
MAX’s Current Research Initiatives
- GENI and OpenFlow Infrastructure
- MAX GENI Aggregate Manager Development in Collaboration with ISI
- MAX’s Proposal for GENI Spiral 3 (awarded)
- Collaborative Research on Optical Layer Virtualization and 4D Control Plane with GWU and UVA
- 100G Research Network Upgrade and Testing
- 100G Connectivity to the JHU NSF-Funded Data Scope Management
- Dynamic Network Systems (DYNES)
- Mid-Atlantic Research Cloud (MARC)
