The I-Light network is a unique collaboration in Indiana between colleges and universities, state government and private sector broadband providers. Indiana colleges and universities are connected directly to I-Light at speeds from 1 Gigabit to 10 Gigabit with the ability to provide even larger, on-demand wavelengths between research groups on various campuses, when that functionality is needed.
We take special pride in our ability to work individually with our members to develop the custom-built, responsive, expert support they need to serve the research and education community of today and tomorrow.
I-Light has enabled a community forum for the sharing of information. In addition to providing more bandwidth than most Indiana colleges and universities could otherwise afford, the network provides a variety of other capabilities such as connecting classrooms at distant locations with high-quality video-streaming and allowing researchers at any location to exchange large digital data files and access to supercomputers and scientific data storage facilities. It makes possible multi-campus collaborative research projects and enables the use of high-definition learning tools such as telepresence.
I-Light Network Services
I-Light provides its members with a fully managed network service.
I-Light’s On-Net service encourages collaboration between member institutions; traffic that stays on I-Light’s network doesn’t go against members commodity internet commitments.
I-Light offers the following levels of commodity Internet to each member:
* 750Mbps
* 500Mbps
* 110Mbps
Members connected to I-Light have full access to the following advanced services: Layer2 transport, IPv6 routing, and IPv4 multicast.
Services Provided to the I-Light Members:
24x7 GlobalNOC Service Desk Support: The newly updated, fully redundant GlobalNOC Service Desk is fully staffed operating out of the NOC control rooms in both Bloomington and Indianapolis. The GlobalNOC Service Desk provides support for members’ network connections to I-Light serving as the primary hub for proactive network health monitoring; providing immediate professional, no-phone-tree customer service; and coordination of all supporting organizations for focused, fast problem resolution. The Service Desk is the first stop and the final stop for all trouble tickets associated with any I-Light managed connection.
I-Light members are supported by the GlobalNOC network engineering teams which handle all network issues. They serve as the owner of any network outage for virtually any type or scope of network, from a campus network, the I-Light DWDM network, to a national IP network. This team also manages technical efforts to design, upgrade and enhance network infrastructure to meet ever-evolving needs of the research and education community.
Connectivity to the Indiana GigaPOP: The I-Light connection to the Indiana GigaPOP provides a package of high-speed research network interconnectivity to national networking infrastructures like Internet2 and NLR as well as extensive, high performance commercial Internet bandwidth providers.
Network Design: The GlobalNOC provides I-Light members with proven expertise in collaborating with network owners on network design, specifically with an eye on the operational needs of networks.