Louisiana Optical Network Infrastructure

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The Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI, is a state-of-the-art, fiber optics network that runs throughout Louisiana, and connects Louisiana research universities to one another as well as Internet2 with the availability to the National LambdaRail. LONI connects Louisiana's major research universities-Louisiana State University (LSU), Loui... siana Tech University, LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, Southern University, Tulane University,University of Louisiana at Lafayette and University of New Orleans-allowing greater collaboration on research that produces results faster and with greater accuracy. LONI provides Louisiana researchers with one of the most advanced optical networks in the country and the most powerful distributed supercomputer resources available to any academic community with over 85 teraflops of computational capacity. The Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI, is a statewide fiber optic, high-performance computing and distributed storage network infrastructure funded by a $50M state investment from the State of Louisiana. LONI, with more than 1600 km of backbone fiber, is geographically distributed across the entirety of Louisiana and portions of Mississippi. The robust 40 Gbps backbone network has connections to Internet 2, Commodity Internet, and other major national and international networks. It currently connects approximately 100 teraflops of supercomputing resources and more than a petabyte of storage distributed around the statewide grid from LONI and Participant resources. LONI is available for use by academic, government, and industry partners in collaboration with LONI member research institutions and is managed by the Louisiana Board of Regents through the LONI Management Council. Points of Presence (POPs) are located at major research universities, but the network is managed and operated by LONI Network Operation Center at LSU. LONI connects supercomputers at the participating universities and other computing ...Read More