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I-Light – Fiber Infrastructure

I-Light – Fiber Infrastructure. What is I-Light?. Very high speed optical fiber network Connects IU Bloomington, IUPUI, and Purdue University West Lafayette Connects all three campuses to the national Internet infrastructure, including Internet2. Why I-Light?. Lots of fiber crosses Indiana

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I-Light – Fiber Infrastructure

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  1. I-Light – Fiber Infrastructure

  2. What is I-Light? • Very high speed optical fiber network • Connects IU Bloomington, IUPUI, and Purdue University West Lafayette • Connects all three campuses to the national Internet infrastructure, including Internet2

  3. Why I-Light? Lots of fiber crosses Indiana The I-Light helps more of it stop here!

  4. Project Background • Idea first discussed in 1998 • $5.3-million State appropriation in 1999 • Support of Indiana Higher Ed. Commission • Strong backing from Governor’s Office • Planning, design, and contract negotiations through 2000 • Construction began in Spring 2001 • Construction completed November 2001 • Fiber lit and put into use in December 2001

  5. I-Light IN-progress Construction along the way

  6. Project Partners • Indiana University • Purdue University • Intelenet Commission (IHETS) • Verizon (optical fiber infrastructure) • Juniper and Cisco (hardware)

  7. The I-Light Advantage • Represents long-term investment by the State in research infrastructure • Investment made during good economic times will help retain and strengthen State’s IT advantage • Provides enough networking capacity for the next 15-20 years between the three main research campuses (IU, Purdue, IUPUI) • Provides IU with an on-ramp to the Internet & Internet2; we can get more for our money!

  8. I-LIGHT – A Tremendous Success • I-Light has been a tremendous success in terms of leveraging a capital investment to reduce costs and increase IT impact at the research universities • $5.3-million in State Appropriation • Brought online quickly and within budget • Resulted in order-of-magnitude increases in connectivity for no additional ongoing costs • Facilitated a tremendous improvements in research collaboration between IUB, IUPUI, and Purdue • Provided dramatic increases in internet connectivity within existing budgets

  9. Biomedical/Genomic Research Homeland Security Visualizing Complex Data I-LightSuccess – Fostering ResearchProviding the foundation for innovation Educational Advances I-Light makes possible extensive growth in research across a wide variety of applications and areas. This increases Indiana’s involvement in national and international research activities Virtual Reality

  10. I-Light’s Continuing Impact • Intercampus bandwidth remains completely unconstrained • The IU-Doritos Principle of bandwidth scarcity – Go ahead and crunch it … we’ll just light more! • Positioning with co-location and our Quilt membership (as a GigaPoP) has allowed us to negotiate even better commodity internet rates (dropped 10%! … may drop another 10% next year) • Eliminates barriers to collaboration • I-light Workshop last year demonstrated the many research initiatives and applications that have developed due to I-Light • Educause 2003 Award for Best Practices in Networking

  11. I-Light 2 – the Next step

  12. Illinois I-Wire Network I-Light 2 – Transmission Infrastructure Multi-fiber high speed communication pathway connecting I-Light to national and international fiber and internet infrastructure in Chicago, and connecting I-Light into Regional high performance fiber network (as part of Nationwide initiatives) with links to University of Illinois and to high-performance networks developing in Ohio I-Light 2 Phase One – “Up-streams”

  13. Illinois I-Wire Network I-Light 2 – Distribution Infrastructure (POPs) Establishing eleven (11) points of presence (POPs) across the State and linking these POPs to I-Light with a variety of high-speed communication technologies to establish a Statewide I-Light network backbone General Locations: Gary/Hammond South Bend Fort Wayne Kokomo Muncie/Anderson Richmond Terre Haute Columbus Vincennes New Albany Evansville I-Light 2 Phase Two-A –“Down-streams”

  14. I-Light 2 – Distribution Infrastructure (Connectors) Establishing links from the Regional POPs to up to 40 institutions (higher education, libraries, K-12 districts) across the State with a variety of high-speed communication technologies to establish a pervasive Statewide I-Light network infrastructure Illinois I-Wire Network Examples: Ivy Tech campuses Notre Dame Ball State Indiana State Indiana University Regionals Purdue University Regionals and extensions Rose Hulman Wabash DePauw Monroe Co. School Corp. Univ. of Evansville Hanover College Butler University I-Light 2 Phase Two-B – “Down-stream Build-out”

  15. Legislature appropriated $10mil over the biennium in April 2003 • Seeks to expand I-Light connectivity to the growing national cyberinfrastructure • Seeks to develop further distribution channels within the State for Higher Ed and, eventually, regional/community Economic Development

  16. Why I-Light2 • Seeks to better connect Indiana into the developing national cyberinfrastructure • Seeks to extend the benefits of I-Light beyond IU, IUPUI, and Purdue, to all colleges, universities, K-12, and Libraries in the State • Seeks to leverage this investment by the State to improve the availability of broadband network services throughout the state, leading to improved economic development potentials

  17. Where it stands • RFP in preparation to build in-state PoPs and acquire connectivity fiber paths • Plans being drawn for using I-Light State-Use Fibers to establish PoPs in Bloomington and West Lafayette • Interesting National Cyberinfrastructure Developments in the works …

  18. The Developing National CyberInfrastructure As a natural progression for Internet2, a nationwide all-fiber backbone infrastructure is quickly developing into a reality of a coast-to-coast network Indiana can play a key role in the development of this national research-focused network by growing our internal infrastructure so that we can effectively distribute the benefits not only to our main research campuses, but throughout the State’s higher education, K-12, and municipal community. Making this investment – building out while other states are standing by due to the same fiscal conditions we all face – can be a tremendous advantage to Indiana. We can literally move forward at accelerated speed while others are frozen or moving backward!

  19. NSF’s Extensible Terascale Facility a.k.a. The TeraGrid

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