Smart Gigabit Communities Launch in Urbana-Champaign, IL

1. Urbana-
Champaign, IL
UC2B
Smart Gigabit Communities
Launch
January 26, 2016

2. Unique and distinguishing characteristics
• Initially BTOP funded; Currently
expanding service area-wide
• 7 fiber rings provide symmetrical
broadband service to gigabit network;
Open access; Full SDN capabilities
• Connectivity in Neighborhoods previously
underserved with broadband
• Serving over 1,200 households, 300
community anchors
• University of Illinois resources: GENI
rack, Internet2,BlueWaters
Supercomputer, NCSA (visualization)
Community Overview
UC2B – Gig-Fiber Public Private Partnership (U of I, Urbana, Champaign) and iTV-3

3. Key Local Partners
• University of Illinois
Parkland College
• U of I Research Park
• Hi-tech private sector
• University of Illinois
• City of Champaign,
Urbana
• Local school and
library districts
• 2 Hospitals
• Transportation
District
• Water and Sewer
District
• UC2B Board
• Economic
Development Corp
• Local Human and
Social Service
Leaders
• Dynamic community
of digital inclusion
leaders
PARTNERS
Sources of
DEVELOPERS
Community
LEADERS

4. Application Idea 1
Advanced Networking Environment for Tele-immersion: Applied to
Healthcare
Brief description
• Provide every member of a gigabit-
enabled community with access to
physical therapy services using a 3D
tele-health platform that permits
remotely located physicians to interact
with geographically dispersed patients
to determine the type of physical
therapy treatments that patients may
need. - See more
http://cairo.cs.uiuc.edu/projects/teleimm
ersion/
Lead developer/group
• Professor Klara Nahrstedt, U of I
Computer Science

5. Application Idea 2
Virtualized Tinkering and Design Thinking Learning Spaces for Workforce
Development
Brief description
• Examine strategies to deliver digital
learning platforms to improve for 21st
Century learning. Deploy 3D Tele-
immersion platforms, manage data and
resource sharing and remote operation
Lead developer/group
• Prof. Jon Gant, Center for Digital
Inclusion
• U of I Extension Service
• Urbana & Champaign school and library
districts
• C-U FabLab and Makerspace
• See the current project, the Illinois
Digital Innovation Leadership Program
(DILP) at http://dilp.lis.illinois.edu/

6. What we have to offer to other communities
List of unique community resources to share with other SGCs
 Blue Waters Supercomputer
 NCSA Visualization Lab
 Digital Data Hub
 Hathi Trust (Google Books repository) https://www.hathitrust.org/
 Community assessment and strategy approaches including Stakeholder
Alignment Modeling, multi-organization data repositories and curation
 Platform for performances with access advanced networking access to the
Krannert Art Musem