Sensing & Acquisition • Data Management • Analysis & Synthesis • Planning & Prosecution • Common Operating Infrastructure • Common Execution Infrastructure

The CI’s functional capabilities are structured into six services networks (SNs) that participate in operational activities, resulting in services that support user applications. The application-supporting services networks are Sensing and Acquisition, Data Management, Analysis and Synthesis, and Planning and Prosecution. The infrastructure services networks are Data Management, Common Execution Infrastructure (CEI), and Common Operating Infrastructure (COI). Data Management provides both application and infrastructure services. These six services networks support user applications and provide required infrastructure capabilities. In terms of the OOI scientific process model, the Sensing & Acquisition services realize the Observe activity, the Analysis & Synthesis services realize the Model activity and the Planning & Prosecution services realize the Exploit activity. Data Management and infrastructure services support this scientific process that enables interactive ocean observing.

The main strategies that drive the design and deployment of the CI are the sustainable integration and scalable fault tolerant. Integration is based on high performance messaging and service-orientation utilizing the Rich Services pattern. The deployment strategy makes use of a CI capability container that can be deployed on any computational platform within the OOI network, from deep ocean buoys, to terrestrial data centers to cloud computing networks. The strategy integrates resources and capabilities into the OOI network, thereby forming the OOI Integrated Observatory.

The services networks and their services are implemented and integrated into subsystems of the same name. Subsystems are the primary units of work breakdown and will be delivered by individual subsystem construction projects.