Urbana-Champaign, IL

UC2BSmart Gigabit Communities

Launch January 26, 2016

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 OverviewUC2B – Gig-Fiber Public Private Partnership (U of I, Urbana, Champaign) and iTV-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

PARTNERSSources of

DEVELOPERSCommunityLEADERS

Application Idea 1Advanced Networking Environment for Tele-immersion: Applied to HealthcareBrief 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/teleimmersion/

Lead developer/group• Professor Klara Nahrstedt, U of I

Computer Science

Application Idea 2Virtualized Tinkering and Design Thinking Learning Spaces for Workforce DevelopmentBrief 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/

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