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Lafayette is on the verge of the biggest technology utilization explosion it has ever seen. With broadband services available to virtually all businesses and home offices, we are going to have the opportunity to realize the rewards of a community-wide participation in the knowledge-based economy. The only question remaining is, “Are we ready?” Are the thousands of people who have access to enterprise-level bandwidth going to take advantage of it? We have all heard about the workforce availability problems we are going to be facing. Are the companies facing these issues ready for a widespread workforce? The individuals and businesses that embrace this new technology will find many ways to build commerce that has never been practical before. With so many providers in the marketplace, the price competition will benefit Lafayette businesses and consumers. Lafayette has maintained a very resilient stance during the global slowdown. If we continue to look forward and embrace these new technologies, we will continue our record of outperforming the rest of the country.

Lafayette’s Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) initiative has been a key component of City-Parish President Joey Durel’s administration. In 1999, Lafayette Utilities System (LUS) upgraded its electric grid monitoring technology by deploying a 65-mile, 96-strand fiber optic network around the city. This fiber optic backbone has also been used to provide communication services to businesses, government and educational entities. Beginning in 2008, LUS Fiber, a division of LUS, began extending this network directly to every home, business and school, creating the city’s only 100 percent fiber optic network. This powerful network will be composed of more than 83,000 miles of glass fiber in the city alone. This powerful communications infrastructure will deliver enhanced cable TV, crystal clear phone service and the fastest Internet speed for improved quality of life and greater opportunities for economic development.

Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) is a 3-D immersive visualization and high-performance computing resource center hosting clients in commercial industry, government and university sectors. LITE’s leading-edge facility features a comprehensive set of advanced visualization systems and a massive high-performance computing system. Conceived as a magnet for economic development, LITE’s advanced facilities and staffs of industry experts are available to your business or organization to help transform the process of innovation and accelerate the time to discovery.

Today, LITE’s diversified client base includes private sector and federal and state funded research projects. LITE is involved in simulated burns to better understand how fires spread and how to fight them, in radio frequency transmissions through dense objects, in an educational application for the classroom,in postproduction work for a movie production company, in training projects for both the U.S. Army and the state using simulation models, in coastal restoration initiatives, and in other exciting data visualization projects.

While the bulk of LITE’s clients to date have come from the health and medical, architecture and construction, film and entertainment, and oil and gas sectors, LITE is eager to work with any industry.

LITE is a $27 million, 70,000-square-foot facility located at the Research Park of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. LITE is governed by a board of commissioners. More information regarding LITE can be obtained at www.lite3d.com, by calling 337-735-LITE or by emailing learnmore@lite3d.com.