NASA Research and Engineering Network
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The NASA Research and Engineering Network (NREN) is a nationwide Wide Area Network which interconnects select NASA centers and peers with other high-performance network testbeds, in order to enable NASA scientists, engineers, and researchers to reach their partners within other Federal agencies and academia. The NREN was initially developed in 1996 and has been upgraded several times. It currently has 10 Gigabits-per-second (Gbit/s) connectivity across the continental United States, primarily to link to the Columbia supercomputer at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.[1]
In March of 2006, NREN developed and implemented a custom wireless networking protocol known as Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), which will be used by field teams and robots in order to facilitate communication in difficult field conditions.[2]
The NREN was used in September 2006 to develop a high transfer rate application called BBFTP, in order to support GOES 5 operations between Ames and Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). BBFTP which was used to facilitate transfers rates as high as 52 Megabytes/sec, and a net transfer of well over 4 Terrabytes worth of data.[2]
The NREN was used to support operations of the McGill High Arctic Research Station (MARS).[3]
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: the Research and Engineering Network of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration