Facts about the ICN

Did you know that the Illinois Century Network...

• provides a world-class IP network to over 6,100 educational institutions - more than any other network of its kind in the United States or the world
  
  
• was cited as a contributing factor in Illinois being tied for #1 in the 2001 Digital States Survey
  
  
• serves approximately 2 million Illinois citizens - mostly students
  
  
• passes between 600 and 800 million bits per second to the Internet on a daily basis
  
  
• is growing at a rate of 6-8% each month
  
  
• has the largest bandwidth available to any community college system in the United States
  
  
• operates the largest private network in the state providing real time traffic management, network services, upgrades, and repairs on a 24/7/365 basis
  
  
• connects to Internet 2 providing access to ICN educational constituents, many of whom would either be ineligible for Internet 2 access or unable to afford it without the ICN
  
  
• is the first state network to become fully multicast enabled allowing a single stream of video to be replicated at an institution providing access to broadcast quality video transmissions including channels and productions from CSPAN, PBS, NASA, Department of Defense, the Smithsonian Institution, and hundreds of others
  
  
• provides service, equipment, and management in order to light up dark fiber for the Chicago Housing Authority, City of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools, and Chicago Public Library
  
  
• is now working in partnership with the Department of Central Management Services and the I-Wire project to further utilize long haul state-owned dark fiber to increase bandwidth and decrease constituent costs
  
  
• is piloting video applications with Illinois Healthcare to provide hospitals with access to Critical Care and Burn Care Units in rural areas
  
  
• offers the lowest possible cost for constituents to receive bandwidth to the commercial Internet and to one another - saving the state approximately $12-15 million per year
  
  
• provides a cost effective resource for institutions transitioning from older H.320 video to newer IP-based H.323 video
  
  
• has a regionally based, 100% certified, technical staff to provide local support throughout the state
  

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