{"426951":{"#nid":"426951","#data":{"type":"news","title":"How to Get Ready for 100 GB Per Second","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAcademic and scientific communities are eagerly waiting as \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/22\/science\/space\/more-eyes-on-the-skies.html?_r=0\u0022\u003Enew telescopes in Chile\u003C\/a\u003E promise to deliver greater images than ever before of the universe above \u2013 at a rate of 100 GB per second.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo get ready for the supernova-size explosion of data, Georgia Tech\u2019s Russ Clark, senior research scientist in the School of Computer Science and the Institute for People and Technology, is drawing up plans for how such large packets of information will be transmitted into the United States\u2019 Internet network of peers, prioritized, then routed nationwide \u2013 without slowing down the Internet for everyone else.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to be able to dynamically control the Internet\u2019s bandwidth so that when physicists need large packets of data, it moves,\u201d Clark says, \u201cand when they don\u2019t, that bandwidth can be used for something else.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClark\u2019s work \u2013 a National Science Foundation-funded project, titled \u201cAtlanticWave SDX\u201d \u2013 has broad implications for how Internet hosts will peer worldwide to consistently prioritize data flow between them and, potentially, how individual Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will order data to the end recipient \u2013 be it images from a telescope, an electronic health record, the latest single from Taylor Swift, or spam.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETogether, with co-investigators at Florida International University (FIU), Clark will define new, common protocols to prioritize packet flow by size or volume, the time sensitivity of data, or privacy requirements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe unchartered space is that engineers are responsible for replacing the current API expression with new protocols and then new APIs,\u201d he says. \u201cThe technology will open up a whole new set of possibilities and business relationships. Potentially, the end user could amortize the cost of the bandwidth they need or pay for extra performance when it\u2019s needed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech and FIU partnered for the project because the Institute houses and operates \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sox.net\/wp\/about-us\/\u0022\u003ESouthern Crossroads\u003C\/a\u003E (SoX) in Atlanta \u2013 a high-speed, large-scale Internet peer network that unites the southeastern research and education community with others worldwide. (SoX also provides Internet bandwidth to participants from ISPs such as CenturyLink, TSIC and Cogent.) In addition, Georgia Tech houses RNOC \u2013 the Research Network Operations Center \u2013 used to develop and test new network infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech has both the academic research manpower and the living lab for testing new peer-to-peer operations,\u201d said Cas D\u2019Angelo, executive director of SoX. \u201cWe\u2019re excited about the potential from this work.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Clark, the five-year project means first writing a common language between ISPs that defines peering relationships, then testing and deploying it in years two and three, and finally receiving real data from South American telescopes in years four and five and refining the process. Meanwhile, FIU will improve a highly constrained trans-Atlantic undersea cable system before telescopes come online.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUltimately this is about being able to specify how I want a packet of information to be treated and prioritized as an application user,\u201d Clark says. \u201cWe\u2019re attempting to move to an architecture that allows users to control prioritizing. Right now, managing Internet traffic flow is very crude \u2013 it\u2019s all or nothing. We want to give more control over how you manage your Internet traffic.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Academic and scientific communities are eagerly waiting as new telescopes in Chile promise to deliver greater images than ever before of the universe above \u2013 at a rate of 100 GB per second."}],"uid":"28124","created_gmt":"2015-07-21 13:57:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Tyler Sharp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"426941":{"id":"426941","type":"image","title":"100 GB per sec\/Russ Clark","body":null,"created":"1449254342","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:39:02","changed":"1475895165","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:45","alt":"100 GB per sec\/Russ Clark","file":{"fid":"202783","name":"istock_000019659759_full.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/istock_000019659759_full_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/istock_000019659759_full_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":625200,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/istock_000019659759_full_0.jpeg?itok=vJ_8QMvw"}}},"media_ids":["426941"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"136141","name":"AtlanticWave SDX"},{"id":"136171","name":"Cas D\u0027Angelo"},{"id":"136131","name":"Florida International University"},{"id":"120041","name":"Institute for People \u0026 Technology"},{"id":"11167","name":"Russ Clark"},{"id":"166941","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"171465","name":"Southern Crossroads"},{"id":"171466","name":"SoX"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tlabouff@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ETara La Bouff\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.894.7253\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}