I was at the Advanced Light Source User Meeting as a representative of LBLnet today talking about the architecture of the Science DMZ to enable big data transfers across the WAN. We had an elegant poster that showed how the DMZ architecture fits into the enterprise design. There are still groups that are saving large data sets to hard drives and shipping them to the destination location rather than attempting to utilize the network and we want to help change that paradigm.

Credit for the majority of the design goes to my co-worker Michael at smitasin.com.