News tagged with Southern Illinois University

Gov. Quinn Awards $1.5 Million to Carbondale Area as Part of Gigabit Communities Challenge

Nathan Woodside, Aug 26, 2013

Gov. Pat Quinn announced on Friday that the Carbondale area will receive a $1.5 million boost to build an ultra high-speed broadband infrastructure.

This week on the Illinois Channel: SIU President Glen Poshard shares insights on how broadband may shape higher education in Illinois

Jul 13, 2011

From Southern Illinois University in Carbondale: we hear an address by SIU President Glenn Poshard where he shares his insights as to how broadband communications may shape the future of higher education in Illinois.

This week on the Illinois Channel: Graham Richard discusses broadband's impact on the economy of a community

Jul 13, 2011

This week on the Illinois Channel:

From Southern Illinois University in Carbondale we hear from Graham Richard, the former Mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, who embraced broadband communications as a way to improve city services and attract more businesses to his community. Mr. Richard spoke to a broadband conference at SIU about the ability of broadband communications to improve the business climate for a community.

Building the Gigabit State in Southern Illinois

On Broadband, Jun 2, 2011

By Drew Clark

CARBONDALE, Illinois, June 2, 2011 – Boiled down to its bare essentials, a major research university like Southern Illinois University here needs three things to prosper: good students, great faculty, and world-class internet bandwidth.

The only major research university in the southern half of Illinois, SIU has the first two out of three. But according to John Koropchak, a professor of chemistry and Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Dean at the university, the availability of bandwidth for SIU maxes out at 380 Megabits per second (Mbps). 

Guidelines by the National Science Foundation call for bandwidth availability to be 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) to 2.5 Gbps. That’s up to seven times the bandwidth currently available. 

National Experts to Convene at Broadband Summit in Carbondale on June 2

May 20, 2011

Local, state and national leaders will convene at the Illinois Broadband Summit on Thursday, June 2 at the Southern Illinois University Student Center in Carbondale. The public can attend in person, at remote participation sites in Springfield and Chicago, or by watching live internet streaming.