i-light – fiber infrastructure
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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I-Light – Fiber Infrastructure
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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
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ONE WAN IN THE VAST INTERNETThe National Science Foundation (NFSNet)
Lots of fiber crosses Indiana
The I-Light helps more of it stop here!
Why I-Light?
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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
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I-Light IN-progress
Construction along the way
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Project Partners
• Indiana University
• Purdue University
• Intelenet Commission (IHETS)
• Verizon (optical fiber infrastructure)
• Juniper and Cisco (hardware)
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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!
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I-LIGHTI-LIGHT – A Tremendous Success• I-Light has been a tremendous successtremendous 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 order-of-magnitude increases in connectivity for no additional ongoing costs
• Facilitated a tremendous improvementstremendous improvements in research collaboration between IUB, IUPUI, and Purdue
• Provided dramatic increasesdramatic increases in internet connectivity within existing budgets
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I-LightI-Light Success – Fostering ResearchProviding the foundation for innovation
Educational AdvancesEducational Advances
Virtual RealityVirtual RealityHomeland SecurityHomeland Security
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
Visualizing Complex DataVisualizing Complex Data
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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
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I-Light 2 – the Next step
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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
Illinois I-Wire Network
I-Light 2 Phase One – “Up-streams”
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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
I-Light 2 Phase Two-A – “Down-streams”
General Locations:
Gary/HammondSouth BendFort WayneKokomoMuncie/AndersonRichmondTerre HauteColumbusVincennesNew AlbanyEvansville
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Illinois I-Wire Network
I-Light 2 Phase Two-B – “Down-stream Build-out”
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
Ivy Tech campusesNotre DameBall StateIndiana StateIndiana University RegionalsPurdue University Regionals and extensionsRose HulmanWabashDePauwMonroe Co. School Corp.Univ. of EvansvilleHanover CollegeButler University
Examples:
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• 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
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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
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• 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 …
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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 move forward at accelerated speed while others are frozen or moving backward!
The Developing National CyberInfrastructure
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NSF’s Extensible Terascale Facility
a.k.a. The TeraGrid