Statewide Optical Network Delivers Unmatched Agility and Capacity

The government, educators, and researchers in Louisiana joined together to ensure that the state could compete in the technological world of the 21st century. Their challenge is to build a statewide network that can meet the needs of higher education, promote collaborative relationships, introduce shared resources, and tie Louisiana into global cyber networks, Provide world-class responsiveness to short term needs and changing requirements, Keep up with the demand for increasing capacity and Help ensure rapid delivery of new and evolving services. They got the solution of ROADM-based optical infrastructure providing built-in scalability, flexibility, and easy expansion with Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series core routers, with integrated service-enablement features. They increased unprecedented capacity for the growing community of users.