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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
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