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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