BTV Ignite

Smart Gigabit Communities Launch

January 26, 2016

Community Overview

Unique and distinguishing characteristics• Municipally built fiber network with gigabit available to the home• Vermont’s largest city and home to core anchor institutions including:

• University of Vermont & UVM College of Medicine• Champlain College• University of Vermont Medical Center

• A City scaled perfectly to enable testbed technology to be widely distributed among a host of accessible partners in government, institutions, business, and non-profit sectors.

Burlington Telecom’s advanced network(s) - leveraged by BTV Ignite• 4,500 households subscribed• Current operational status: online• Network owner/operator: Burlington Telecom• GENI rack to be installed at the University of Vermont data center ~June 2016

Key Local Partners

• Champlain College Digital Forensics

• UVM College of Medicine• UVM Complex Systems

Group• Community Partners such

as the Regional Planning Commission

• City of Burlington

• Burlington Electric

• Champlain College

• Chamber of Commerce

• University of Vermont (UVM)

• UVM Medical Center

• Mayor Miro Weinberger• UVM President Tom

Sullivan• Champlain College

President Don Laackman

• Chamber of Commerce President Tom Torti

PARTNERSSources of

DEVELOPERSCommunityLEADERS

Remote Capture Digital Forensics

Brief descriptionWith exponential increases in digital evidence during criminal investigations, this project would leverage GB speed to remotely capture large volumes of evidence to securely begin analysis remotely.

Lead developer/groupProject lead is Jon Rajewski, Director of the Senator Leahy Center for Digital Investigation at Champlain College

PUBLIC SAFETY

Breast biopsy training application

Brief descriptionTraining physicians, technicians, nurse practitioners and others to perform complex biopsy is challenging. Replicating the feel and 3-dimensional imaging and tactile input would increase the number of skilled practitioners, increase accuracy, and improve patient outcomes.

Lead developer/groupProject lead is Dr. Elise Hotaling, Body & Breast Imagine and Intervention, UVM Medical Center/UVM College of Medicine

HEALTH

What we have to offer to other communities

List of unique community resources to share with other SGCs

Partnerships & Connections to our core institutions AND

• Champlain College Emergent Media Center

• Champlain College Digital Forensics

• UVM Complex Systems group

• UVM Food Systems group

• UVM neuroscience behavior and health, robotics, and health economics group

• Projects with Leahy / ECHO Center for Lake Champlain

• Projects with Fletcher Free library

• Projects with our Technical High Schools and STEM programs