This document summarizes smart gigabit community initiatives in Lafayette, Louisiana. Lafayette has a fiber network covering 120,000 residents, paid for by public bonds. The document outlines two application ideas: 1) A next generation emergency operations center hosted by UL Lafayette to test crisis decision making architectures. It would transition from a physical to distributed network EOC. 2) A virtual crisis information sharing platform to improve network resilience and quality of service for first responders during disasters, using software defined networking and high-speed networks. Key local partners involved include the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the City of Lafayette, and local technology companies.

1. Lafayette, LA
Smart Gigabit Communities
Launch
January 26, 2016

2. Community Overview
Lafayette
The happiest city in America
Unique and distinguishing characteristics
• Cajun cultural heritage distinct in America
• Entrepreneurial and Self-Sufficient
• Home of UL Lafayette: “Research for a Reason”
Lafayette’s advanced network(s)
• 120,000 in the city (fiber network coverage)
• Privately owned – paid for by public bond
• Lafayette Utility Service (LUS)
• Operational since 2005

3. Key Local Partners
• Informatics Research
Institute
• CajunCodeFest
• CGI, Enquero
• Source 4
• City of Lafayette
• University of Louisiana at
Lafayette
• Informatics Research
Institute
• Lafayette Economic
Development Authority
• Mayor-President
Joel Robideaux
• Mr. Joey Durel
• Mr. Terry Huval
• Dr. Ramesh Kolluru
PARTNERS
Sources of
DEVELOPERS
Community
LEADERS
Unique community resources to share with other SGCs
Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE)
NSF Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (Big Data & Visualization)
NIMSAT Institute (Homeland Security & Emergency Management)
Picard Center for Early Child Development and Lifelong Learning

4. Application Idea 1
Next Generation Business Emergency Operations Center
(NextGen BEOC)
Project Description
• NIMSAT Institute at UL Lafayette hosts the LA
BEOC and Alternate State EOC
• Laboratory for testing physical and cognitive
architectures for collaborative planning and crisis
decision-making
• Transition path from EOC in physical space to EOC
via distributed network
Public/Private Partnership for Research
• NIMSAT Institute, UL Lafayette (lead)
• START Center, University of Maryland
• LA Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and
Emergency Preparedness
• Maryland Emergency Management Agency
• Siemens Corporation
• Steelcase, Incorporated
PUBLIC SAFETY

5. Application Area 2
A Virtual Crisis Information Sharing Platform for
Disaster Response
Project Description
• Network outages and fluctuating network
load conditions affect communications
between First Responders and
Incident Commanders.
• The project improves resilience and
Quality Of Service (QOS) of
communication networks
• The key enabling technologies
are high speed networks and
software defined networking.
Lead developer/group
• Informatics Research Institute (IRI)
• Center for Visualization and Decision
Informatics (CVDI)
• (Alex Richard, Marcus Shannon,
Rohit Mylavarapu)
SDN-based multi-path high throughput video transmission
PUBLIC SAFETY