The Ohio State University is leading the establishment of a "sub-Internet" which will allow scientists the opportunity to collaborate across the cloud with little interference from each institution's security. This "demilitarized zone" will presumably put an end to the information bottlenecks that occur when encountering an organization's firewalls.
Funded from a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Carol Whitacre, OSU vice president for research, heads up the team for the next two years. This team will consist of members from Ohio State, the University of Missouri and the Ohio Technology Consortium's Research and Innovation Center. Locally, the team members will include Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet), as well as the computational and storage resources of the Ohio Supercomputer Center, Dhabaleswar Panda, professor of computer science and engineering, Umit Catalyurek, professor of biomedical informatics, and Datta Gaitonde, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
As a part of this project, Prof. Panda and his team will be designing high-performance networking protocols and middlewares (such as Grid-FTP) using RDMA-based mechanisms. Two different networking technologies, RDMA over Converged Enhanced Ethernet (RoCE) and Internet Wire RDMA Protocol (iWARP) will be used. The new protocols and middlewares will be experimented to support high-throughput data transfer between end computing/storage nodes across the campus and also over the 100Gbps networking infrastructure.
For more details on the overall project you can find the University's announcement here.