About

Our mission

I-Light is a unique collaboration among Indiana colleges and universities, state government, and private sector broadband providers.

Member sites connect to I-Light at speeds starting at 1 Gigabit to 10 Gigabits per second. The I-Light team provides members with responsive, expert support and can provide even larger, on-demand connections between research groups when needed.

I-Light enables a variety of capabilities such as:

High-quality video connections
Exchange of large data files
Access to supercomputers and scientific data storage facilities
Multi-campus collaborative research projects
High-definition learning tools such as telepresence

I-Light Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Plan

The goal of our CI Plan is to ensure that the advanced networking needs of I-Light researchers are met with minimal friction. To meet this goal, I-Light manages a continuous process of needs assessment, infrastructure/capacity/financial planning, upgrade implementation, and operational support.

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Our Partners

Indiana GigaPOP serves as a foundation for Indiana’s research and education communities, providing an advanced high-speed, high-availability, feature-rich network that brings Indiana’s brightest to the world, and the world’s brightest to Indiana.

Internet2 is a community providing cloud solutions, research support, and services tailored for Research and Education. Our trusted, secure network empowers higher education, research institutions, government entities and cultural organizations.

OmniSOC is the shared cybersecurity operations center for higher education and research. OmniSOC rapidly delivers only critical, actionable, high-quality alerts 24x7x365, allowing cybersecurity staff to focus on what’s important, at substantial cost savings, from a trusted leader in the higher education cybersecurity community.

Through The Quilt, non-profit regional research and education networks collaborate to develop, deploy and operate advanced cyberinfrastructure that enables innovation in research and education.

I-Light is the high-speed fiber optic network that connects every Indiana public university and private college. Find out what the I-Light network means to its members and the community they are building together.

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>> What does the I-Light network mean to Indiana?
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To some, it's more bang for the buck.
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>> I-Light gives us a fixed number that we can budget for.
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It's very reasonable, and certainly gives us far better performance
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than we've had with any other vendor.
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>> For others, it's more about the big bang.
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>> We want to understand what the universe is made of, and eventually go to a point
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where we can recreate or better understand the beginning of the universe.
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>> But for those who use I-Light all over Indiana, one thing is clear.
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I-Light is about community.
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>> Ivy Tech doesn't have residence halls.
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Our students are all commuter students.
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So for us, Wi-Fi and other high-speed internet access is sort of part
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of our community gathering strategy.
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>> That community is a powerful thing.
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>> Many of these NSF grants that our members have applied for have a requirement
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that they connect to the research and education networks.
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And I-Light is the path for those universities to do that.
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>> Previous to I-Light, if we wanted to offer a video intensive course in Tell City, for example,
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their bandwidth was very minimal and not designed to do what they needed to do.
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And so today, they can offer courses wherever they'd like without having to check with IT
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to see is the infrastructure there to support what it is they are trying to do.
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>> We have workforce development resources and other things like that on our campuses.
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And so the I-Light services allow folks who may not be able to get internet access
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in their own homes or in other ways in their community
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to have access to that through their local IVY Tech campus.
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>> I-Light really has unlimited potential for Indiana. We are continuing dark fiber builds
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out to some of the institutions to get faster connections.
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Its mission for public service really is unbounded.
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It's physically secure.
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We've already got the rights of use for the fiber all set
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to the year 2028, enough to keep the vision going.
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>> Researchers connected to I-Light have the ability to connect
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to many research facilities throughout the country and throughout the world.
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So if they're needing to send large packets of data from one telescope
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to another, I-Light enables that for them.
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>> I have no hesitation at all in saying this has been a tremendous investment on behalf
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of the institutions, tremendous investment
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by the state that's given Indiana a demonstrable advantage in this arena.
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