Welcome to Gig.U

The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project, or Gig.U, is a broad-based group of over 30 leading research universities from across the United States. Drawing on America’s rich history of community-led innovation in research and entrepreneurship, Gig.U seeks to accelerate the deployment of ultra high-speed networks to leading U.S. universities and their surrounding communities. Improvements to these networks drive economic growth and stimulate a new generationof innovations addressing critical needs, such as health care and education.

Gig.U members understand that next-gen networks lead to next-gen opportunities.

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City of Charlottesville, Board of Supervisors for Albemarle County support resolutions in support of Next Generation Networking

It’s been a busy month in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia–with excellent results for next generation networks. On December 5, the City Council passed a resolution in support of the Gig.U: University Community Next Generation Innovation Project. The resolution directs the City’s staff to work with the University of Virginia, Gig.U and other stakeholders towards [...]

Tis the season for webinars

Yesterday, Gig.U held a webinar to update leaders in our communities on the project so far and what’s next. Hopefully we will be able to post the recording in the very near future. Also, last Monday, Gig.U Executive Director Blair Levin was the keynote speaker at a FTTH Council Community Webinar. Blair talked about the [...]

Gig.U’s Levin to Missouri Broadband Summit: “This is Still Us”

Gigabit Broadband-Fueled Knowledge Exchange Can Drive U.S. Economic Recovery Columbia, Missouri, November 17, 2011 – In a speech today at the sold-out Missouri Broadband Summit, Gig.U Executive Director and the architect of the National Broadband Plan, Blair Levin, outlined how high performance collaboration will be, and must be, the killer app of the next generation [...]
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California Institute of Technology

Case Western Reserve University

Colorado State University

Duke University

Florida State University

George Mason University

The Georgia Institute of Technology

Howard University

Indiana University

Michigan State University

North Carolina State University

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