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 The Illinois Wired/Wireless Infrastructure for Research and Education (I-WIRE) is an optical "dark fiber" network linking major research institutions and universities in Illinois. This advanced optical network will accelerate research in collaborative and virtual environments, in which people work, study, and create together as if they are in the same physical location. It will accelerate the development of new models for partnership between national laboratories, the communications industry, and academic institutions. I-WIRE will enable evaluation of advanced optical network architectures and technologies, providing a testing facility for next-generation ideas and applications. I-Wire will leverage major Federal and commercial investments in information technology infrastructure and research at the I-WIRE sites. |
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Highlights of the I-WIRE project
- Ultra-high capacity fiber network
- An initiative included in Governor Ryan's Illinois VentureTECH
program
- Dark fiber infrastructure connecting Argonne National
Laboratory, the University of Illinois (Chicago and Urbana
campuses, including the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications - NCSA and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory
- EVL), the University of Chicago, Illinois Institute of
Technology, and Northwestern University.
- I-WIRE will support optical network research, engineering
studies, and high-performance distributed systems and applications
research and development.
- I-WIRE has partnered with communications carriers and
equipment companies to deploy the dark fiber network.
- State-of-the-art data system that provides a network
for production and research
- Allows the clustering of the TeraGrid
to take place, which leveraged $53 million from the Nation
Science Foundation through the Distributed Terascale Facility
project.
- Unique partnership with the Illinois
Century Network, leveraging investments
in both networks.
- I-WIRE will begin as with four 10Gbps channels with a
plan to increase to 160 Gbps.
- One gigabit equals 1 billion bits of information
- A 40-gigabit network, such as I-WIRE, could transmit
the entire contents of the World Wide Web in less than 30
minutes.
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Research Institutions connect via I-WIRE
