Smart Gigabit Cities:
How Advanced Networks Drive Economic Development
Joe Kochan
June 9, 2015
But now what do we do?
What is US Ignite?
Public-private partnership
Launched at White House in 2012
501(c)(3)
US Ignite’s goals
Infrastructure
Next-Gen
Applications
Economic
Leadership
1
60 next-generation applications
2
200 community testbeds
3
Accelerate economic development
IoT, CPS, Smart Cities
Small, inexpensive sensors (common)
Local, capable storage and compute (less common)
Low latency, reliable network (critical)
Smart, adaptive, responsive systems
Technologies
Symmetric gigabit wired / wireless fabric
Adaptable, virtualizable network
Locavore computing and storage
Symmetric gigabit networking
BIG
Data
4K Streaming video (including VR)
Quick
Sliced
IoT / CPS smart sensors
Virtual reality
Privacy
Security
2 years
10 weeks
Commercially Available
Wired data
caps
Mobile data caps
The Gigabit Frontier
1 week
16 hrs
Netflix movie
100 min
10 min
Online backup
1 min
Web page
5 sec
50 ms
Locavore
½ sec
Terra Incognita
KB
MB
GB
TB
PB
2 years
10 weeks
Commercially Available
Wired data
caps
Mobile data caps
The Gigabit Frontier
1 week
16 hrs
Netflix movie
100 min
4K video
10 min
Live radiology
Online backup
1 min
CASA
Sim Center
USC Microscope
Locavore
50 ms
Future CASA
Physical Therapy as a Service
Web page
5 sec
½ sec
Flood Cube
Cizzle
Library Browser
Terra Incognita
Fly-through data
visualization
Remote 3D printer
Pollution Viewer
NVIDIA
Synchrophaser
KB
MB
GB
TB
PB
Today’s Infrastructure
Home or Small Business
10 Mbps
11
Locavore Infrastructure
Home or Small Business
Gig
12
Locavore Infrastructure
Home or Small Business
Gig
13
Typical Application Characteristics
• Big data to the end user / anchor institution
• Visual data exploration (“fly-through”)
• Virtual reality / augmented reality
• Real-time (apparently instantaneous)
• Very low latency
• Reliable (no hiccups)
• Cyberphysical interactions
• Collaborative (in the moment)
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Enable Experiential Learning
Gigabit-networked microscopy to extend reach of research universities
Differentiators
• Chattanooga STEM students gain access to researchers, 4k microscopic images,
and knowledge from 1,800 miles away
• Students able to learn about and manipulate sophisticated microscope in real time
• Analysis of Pacific micro-organisms integrated into STEM biology curriculum
• Low-latency gigabit networks enable three simultaneous streams: high-resolution
images, video conferencing, and microscope manipulation
Demo Participants
• Dr. Richard Weinberg, USC School of Cinematic Arts
• Student Maria Jefferson from Chattanooga STEM high school
Train the “tech generation” workforce
Virtual-reality based training for wind and solar industry workers
Differentiators
• Entry-level trainees learn relevant skills via immersive, cloud-based VR platform
• Educational modules will help train thousands of workers in solar cell and small
wind turbine design, installation and maintenance tasks
• System reduces investment in equipment, lab space, personnel, and field visits
• Platform to be made available to 60+ BTOP-funded public computing centers in
Philadelphia
• Public computing centers able to offer VR-based training by being connected to
local cloud storage and compute capabilities via gigabit networks
Demo Participants
• Professor Kapil Dandakar, Drexel University
Spur economic development and
entrepreneurship
Cleveland’s EDA-funded 100 Gig fiber network drives innovation and jobs
Differentiators
• 100 Gig-enabled 3-mile Health-Tech corridor has brought new jobs from big
data companies, developers, and data centers
• Early College High School (within John Jay HS) graduation rate went from
<40% to #1 in state in part through use of gigabit video collaboration platform
• OneCommunity partnered with 40 cities in NE Ohio through its "Big Gig
Challenge" to support deployment of broadband infrastructure to downtown
innovation zones, and foster research accelerators, public safety applications,
and new services for community health clinics
Demo Participants
• Lev Gonick, CEO, OneCommunity
So what?
Burlington, Vermont
Established entrepreneurial accelerator program:
• Assembled team under mayor’s leadership to complete BTV Ignite Playbook
• Enhanced community infrastructure
– Gigabit connections to schools, libraries, museums, maker spaces, and among research universities
• Identified core application capabilities
– Cyber-security, edu-gaming, additive manufacturing, neuroscience, smart systems, and food systems
• Stimulated constant stream of application development events for small businesses built
around core application capabilities
– Maker space events, Code for America Brigade-sponsored hackathons
• Coordinated best-practice sharing nationwide
– Apps from KC and Chattanooga, techniques for closing skill gaps
• Unleashed groundswell of national publicity and entrepreneurial activity
• Burlington named one of Top Ten Most-Promising Tech Hubs to Watch in 2014
Flint, Michigan
Established entrepreneurial accelerator program:
• Assembled accelerator team under mayor’s leadership to complete Flint Ignite Playbook
– Includes broad-based group of community leaders
• Discovered and mapped under-utilized fiber infrastructure to schools and other anchor institutions
• Began planning for 8 new applications that could utilize existing fiber infrastructure and Kettering
GENI rack
• Identified core application capabilities
– Transportation logistics, automotive manufacturing, life sciences, food manufacturing
• Engaged entrepreneurial community within Flint and Kettering, U of M Flint, MSU, and Mott CC
• Began planning constant stream of application development events for small businesses at
Kettering Innovation Center, U of M Innovation Incubator, and Mott CC FabLab
• Coordinated best-practice sharing nationwide
– Apps from Utah and Burlington, techniques for closing tech skill gaps
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Supported leadership in driving economic development:
• Leveraging fastest city-wide network in the Western Hemisphere, with gig speeds available to
150,000
• Focused efforts on smart grid, additive manufacturing, healthcare, and education / training
“teachepreneurs”
• GigTank accelerator driving development of entrepreneurial ecosystem and dozens of startups
• “Hackanooga,” Startup Weeks, other events driving new applications
• Planning Innovation District
• Established businesses choosing GigCity
– Amazon, Volkswagen, Access America, HomeServe USA
• Over 4,000 new jobs created within past five years, with over half attributed to Gig network