Network R&D
ESnet’s research and development activities are integral to our mission of advancing the capabilities of today’s networking technologies to better serve the science requirements of the future. With our network traffic growing about 55% on average year on year since 1989, we rely on continuous staff innovation as well as focused applied research and development to increase the network’s efficiency in multiple areas. We continually investigate, create, develop, and test the services, protocols, routing techniques, and tools necessary to meet the expanding needs of our user community of DOE scientists.
Quantum Networking Research
ESnet's quantum networking researchers are collaborating on several projects to further quantum networking technologies. Their current focus is building a proof-of-concept testbed (the QUANT-NET project) for quantum network research and development – focusing on repeater-friendly quantum node technologies, quantum network architecture and protocol stacks, and high-efficiency quantum frequency conversion. Read More
ESnet’s High-Touch Project
Providing high-fidelity network telemetry and measurement at scale Overview ESnet's High-Touch Project uses programmable hardware and software to provide enhanced, high-speed network services and detailed network traffic visibility. The project was begun in 2018 as part of development of the ESnet6 network, the Department of Energy’s high performance network for unclassified scientific… Read More
ESnet-JLab FPGA Accelerated Transport (EJFAT) Load Balancer
A collaboration between staff at Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), the ESnet-JLab FPGA Accelerated Transport, or EJFAT (pronounced “Edge-Fat”), prototype is… Read More
ESnet SmartNIC
Hardware designs for supporting the building of network applications on FPGAs The availability of commercial, off-the-shelf programmable hardware, in particular Field Programmable Gate Arrays and SmartNICs, has opened up exciting possibilities for implementing network applications. FPGAs combine the speed of hardware-based packet processing with the programmability and flexibility usually… Read More
Network Performance and Troubleshooting (perfSONAR)
perfSONAR is a tool for end-to-end monitoring and troubleshooting of multi-domain network performance. perfSONAR is currently deployed in over 100 locations around the world, and is extremely valuable when doing network troubleshooting. Read More
GRETA
GRETA is a new high-resolution gamma-ray detector system that will be used to study nuclear reactions in real-time and in unprecedented detail. ESnet is the primary architect and developer for two high-performance computing components of the system and ESnet staff are serving as networking consultants for the internal networking of the detector and its data acquisition systems.
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Experimental Network Testbeds and Test Circuit Services
The objective is to provide network researchers with a realistic environment for testing. 100G SDN Testbed, Dark Fiber Testbed, Test Circuit Service. Read More
