Lafayette, LA

Smart Gigabit Communities Launch

January 26, 2016

Community Overview

LafayetteThe happiest city in America

Unique and distinguishing characteristics• Cajun cultural heritage distinct in America• Entrepreneurial and Self-Sufficient• Home of UL Lafayette: “Research for a Reason”

Lafayette’s advanced network(s)• 120,000 in the city (fiber network coverage)• Privately owned – paid for by public bond • Lafayette Utility Service (LUS)• Operational since 2005

Key Local Partners

• Informatics Research Institute

• CajunCodeFest• CGI, Enquero• Source 4

• City of Lafayette• University of Louisiana at

Lafayette• Informatics Research

Institute• Lafayette Economic

Development Authority

• Mayor-President Joel Robideaux

• Mr. Joey Durel• Mr. Terry Huval• Dr. Ramesh Kolluru

PARTNERSSources of

DEVELOPERSCommunityLEADERS

Unique community resources to share with other SGCsLouisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE)

NSF Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (Big Data & Visualization)NIMSAT Institute (Homeland Security & Emergency Management)

Picard Center for Early Child Development and Lifelong Learning

Application Idea 1Next Generation Business Emergency Operations Center (NextGen BEOC)

Project Description• NIMSAT Institute at UL Lafayette hosts the LA

BEOC and Alternate State EOC• Laboratory for testing physical and cognitive

architectures for collaborative planning and crisis decision-making

• Transition path from EOC in physical space to EOC via distributed network

Public/Private Partnership for Research• NIMSAT Institute, UL Lafayette (lead)• START Center, University of Maryland• LA Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and

Emergency Preparedness• Maryland Emergency Management Agency• Siemens Corporation• Steelcase, Incorporated

PUBLIC SAFETY

Application Area 2A Virtual Crisis Information Sharing Platform for Disaster Response

Project Description• Network outages and fluctuating network

load conditions affect communications between First Responders and Incident Commanders.

• The project improves resilience and Quality Of Service (QOS) of communication networks

• The key enabling technologies are high speed networks and software defined networking.

Lead developer/group• Informatics Research Institute (IRI)• Center for Visualization and Decision

Informatics (CVDI)• (Alex Richard, Marcus Shannon,

Rohit Mylavarapu)

SDN-based multi-path high throughput video transmission

PUBLIC SAFETY