Smart Gigabit Communities Launch in Lafayette, LA

1. Lafayette, LA
Smart Gigabit Communities
Launch
January 26, 2016

2. Community Overview
Lafayette
The 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

3. 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
PARTNERS
Sources of
DEVELOPERS
Community
LEADERS
Unique community resources to share with other SGCs
Louisiana 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

4. Application Idea 1
Next 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

5. Application Area 2
A 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