1. FCC GIGABIT CITY CHALLENGE
March 27, 2013

2. “Build the next-generation Internet and they will come, but not without encouragement and a willingness to be surprised.
In the 1970s, many doubted there were uses for even 50-kilobit-per- second Internet. But soon application explorers came up with remote login, file transfer, and
Bob Metcalfe Ethernet Inventor
new worlds in telephony, television, publishing, commerce and social interactivity.
Today, while investing in gigabit generations of Internet, we are again sending out our application explorers.”
Metcalfe quote—In this quote from one of our board members, Bob Metcalfe, recalls an era when many wondered what we could possibly do with 50 kilobits per second. Now after we’ve transformed nearly every industry and sector imaginable, applications explorers are again setting out to discover new applications that can have an equally transformative impact on how we live, work, learn, and play,

3. Public-private partnership
Circle—Our mission at US Ignite is to accelerate the efforts of these applications explorers. We’re a non-profit organization set up with inspiration from the White House OSTP and the National Science Foundation both of whom strongly believe that it is a 21st century competitive necessity for the US to take advantage of next-generation technologies. [The six areas around which US Ignite apps will create new apps: healthcare, education, public safety, energy, transportation, and advanced manufacturing.]

4. Partners: The names of our partners give you a sense of the many types of stakeholders required to move this initiative forward, including network operators; equipment manufacturers; Research and Education Networks; Universities; communities; and foundations.
Equipment Manufacturers
Research and Education Networks
Network Operators
Foundations & Nonprofits
Municipalities

5. Next-Gen Applications
Our Goals 1
60 next-generation applications
Infrastructure 2
200 community test beds
Next-Gen Applications
Goals--To accomplish our mission, we aim to facilitate creation of 60 transformational applications and deploy them on 200 community testbeds where the applications can be researched, developed, tested and refined. We are not the developers of the applications, nor deployer of the testbeds. Rather we serve as an incubator and accelerator of great ideas and best practices—a matchmaker and a clearinghouse for our partners.
Economic Leadership 3
Coordinate best practices

6. Next-Gen Applications
Next-Gen Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Software-defined networks
Neighborhood Cloud (US Ignite Racks)
Gigabit to the end user 1
Next-Gen Applications 2
Next-generation technology—The “gigabit” Internet is not about going faster, it’s about completely changing how we approach nearly every sector of our economy, as we transition to an Internet of Immersive Experience. There are three components to America’s next-generation gigabit networks – not just a “gig:”  
Network Smarts. Rather than remaining relatively static, next generation networks will be able to adapt on the fly to the applications and usage patterns of the people and devices online. These capabilities can be delivered today via Software Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow, In a sense, these new networking technologies allow application developers to “program everything” –not just traditional applications but also the network “slices” they run on.
Local Cloud Compute and Storage. Many of the storage services we use today in the "cloud" are, in fact, remote computers and servers housed in data centers very far away.  Instead of shipping data and computational needs to a faraway server farm, neighborhood “local clouds” will permit us to store and interact with our data more quickly, inexpensively, and securely.
Symmetrical Speed. Sheer speed is a vitally important factor, just not the only one. Next generation Internet applications require very high “symmetrical” speeds all the way to end users’ devices – this means up to one gigabit per second in both download and upload directions. Many discussions under-value the upload side of the connection, but the Internet of Immersive Experience will mean we are all as much producers of content and data as we are consumers.
Economic Leadership 3

7. US Ignite Ecosystem Coordination
Community Supporters
Foundations and Non-profits
Mozilla Ignite Challenge
Economic Development Organizations
Academic Community
Universities and Colleges
Faculty Research
Student Projects
GENI Research
Research & Education Networks
Industry Partners
Corporate Sponsors and Labs
Entrepreneurs and VCs
Accelerators and Incubators
Small Businesses
Government Partners
National Science Foundation
Mission Agencies
Government Labs
State and Local Government
Ecosystem: We use five approaches to facilitate creation of next-generation applications, including:
1. University applications funded by NSF grants over the past four years.
2. Corporate lab or value-added developer initiatives.
3. Community-led apps to meet specific community problems.
4. US-Ignite-generated ideas that have evolved as a result of its clearinghouse role.
5. Mozilla Ignite challenge that has generated 100s of great new app ideas.
Now I’d like to quickly provide a sample of the kinds of next-generation applications under development—Imagine the following:

8. Connected Collaboration
Connected Collaboration from Case Western: Imagine having low-cost, totally natural video conferencing from your home to further Education or Telehealth programs (please stay at 11:30 or 12:30 to see my colleague Glenn Ricart present a demo of this application platform).

9. Remote Surgery
Remote Surgery—Imagine having your surgery completely practiced by a surgeon on a virtual 3D model of your body in advance of the initial incision

10. Remote Radiology
Remote Radiology—Imagine having your radiologist read your emergency room x-rays from home saving hours and possibly your life.

11. Personal Sensor Networks
Personal network sensor—Imagine having much better data about your own body aggregated automatically and continuously so you and your doctor can detect changes early.

12. Big Data Genomes and personalized health
Evidence-based personalized medicine
Longitudinal monitoring and sensors
High quality medical photos and videos
Public health dynamics
Big Data—Imagine being able to see analyses of your own genomic makeup from your home.

13. Virtual Community Supercomputer
Virtual super computer—Imagine being able to contribute to drug design research from home in partnership with your local university.

14. Public Apps Library
Public Apps Library—Imagine borrowing SPSS, Photoshop, or Pro Tools software from your local library.

15. SimCenter VIDEO: us-ignite.org/Chattanooga-story
SimCenter: Imagine your local public safety officials knowing where a toxic release is going to move and where citizens should go thanks to an on-demand super computer.
VIDEO: us-ignite.org/Chattanooga-story

16. Remote Process Control
Remote Process Control—Imagine engineers from across the US working on a collaborative car design and simulating crash performance (please stay for a few minutes at 11:30 or 1:30 to hear George Adams from Purdue describe this application).

17. Software-Defined Home
Wireless Micronode Backhaul
Secure Banking
On-demand healthcare
VoIP
Software-defined home—Imagine accessing a virtual stream of services from your home including security, home energy management, and on-line STEM study groups for your kids.
Plain Old Internet Connection

18. Our process—as this final slide notes, we strive to connect people, resources, and best practices, for example communities that need apps and developers that need communities, businesses, or government agencies to scale. [Educate and inspire—connect people and resources—recognize innovation—coordinate test beds—take to scale—inform the public].
The gigabit Internet of Immersive Experience will also require a different kind of thinking - let’s call it “gigabit thinking.”
For as long as developers have been building applications for the Internet, they have faced bandwidth scarcity. The result is that today's web developers optimize their creations for speed, and minimize the amount of data to be delivered.  Video streams are compressed, real-time interactions are buffered and delayed (think Skype chats requiring you to speak, pause, and interrupt each other), and critical data is cached.
Gigabit thinking means that instead of operating under those constraints, developers are encouraged to start over and create something great with virtually unlimited bandwidth.  Stop compressing.  Stop buffering.  Stream everything -- data, video, voice -- all at once.  There are communities in the US today where that is possible, and with some effort, there will be many more setting out on Bob Metcalfe’s journey as application explorers and gigabit thinkers.