I-Light Network

The I-Light network is a unique collaboration in Indiana between colleges and universities, state government and private sector broadband providers. Indiana colleges and universities are connected directly to I-Light at speeds from 1 Gigabit to 10 Gigabit with the ability to provide even larger, on-demand wavelengths between research groups on various campuses, when that functionality is needed. I-Light has enabled a community forum for the sharing of information. In addition to providing more bandwidth than most Indiana colleges and universities could otherwise afford, the network provides a variety of other capabilities such as connecting classrooms at distant locations with high-quality video-streaming and allowing researchers at any location to exchange large digital data files and access to supercomputers and scientific data storage facilities. It makes possible multi-campus collaborative research projects and enables the use of high-definition learning tools such as telepresence.