U.S. Ignite Presentation

Steve Corbató University of Utah

Utah Broadband Advisory Council June 21, 2012

[Slides credit: Glenn Ricart, U.S. Ignite]

Public-private partnership 501(c)(3)

Partners

•  Government: 7 •  Industry: 9 •  Communities and foundations: 26 •  Network: 10

NextGen Technologies

Next-Gen Infra-

structure

Next-Gen Apps

Compelling Application

Next-Gen App = Community Need in a National Priority Area + University (ideally GENI university) + Advanced infrastructure for testing (SDN and/or GENI rack and/or gig to user) + Foundation and/or federal funding + Assistance from US Ignite industry partner + Community organizer to put team together

Technical Drivers

Software Defined Networking / Virtual Networks

GENI Racks

Gigabit to the end user

TRANSFORMING HEALTH

LOCAL AND RESPONSIVE

APPS

NEW STARTUPS

YOUR NEXT-GEN IDEA

LOW-COST, NATURAL, HD VIDEO

GIGABIT TO END-USER

IMPROVED URBAN TRANSPORTATION

What Should You Do? •  Join US Ignite •  Future-proof your network

– Buy OpenFlow-capable switches & routers – Consider installing GENI Racks

•  Be a leader: invent a next-gen app – Work with Mozilla – Send in an NSF grant request – Consult US Ignite

What was announced last week?

•  Critical role of NSF GENI project •  NSF support

– EAGER awards to pilot projects –  ‘Dear Colleague’ letter for additional projects

•  Mozilla U.S. Ignite contest for innovative applications

•  Non-profit organization now very active

Utah Leadership in U.S. Ignite

•  Glenn Ricart is CTO (U Maryland, Novell, NLR) – Glenn.Ricart@us-ignite.org

•  Network Research, Univ. of Utah – GENI leadership – Prof. Rob Ricci

•  Broadband development - NTIA BTOP – Utah Education Network (UEN) – UTOPIA

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Source: Prof. Rob Ricci, School of Computing Kudos to the late Prof. Jay Lepreau

More information

•  NSF CISE – http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=CISE

•  U.S. Ignite non-profit – http://us-ignite.org/

•  Gig.U higher ed initiative – http://www.gig-u.org/