Clemson University’s C-Light Network has closed the cyber gap in South Carolina by joining the national high-speed research community through direct fiber connections between Clemson, Greenville, Atlanta and Charlotte, providing direct access to the National LambdaRail, Internet2 and other national and international research networks.

Key Features

• Can be quickly configured so that one user gets dedicated direct access. Academic and research enterprises often require dedicated network facilities to transmit massive quantities of data. A commodity-based network is like a road you share with other vehicles. A facilities-based network is like a superhighway where you can control traffic and if needed, temporarily dedicate a fast lane to one user. A facilities network provides both high bandwidth and the flexibility to quickly configure access, which results in fast and predictable performance (no traffic jams). Clemson University now has both commodity and facilities-based networks.
• Has the capacity today to provide 16 individual 10-Gigabit connections. But bandwidth is not the only important factor for this kind of network. Extremely important is that Clemson can configure this network very quickly to dedicate access as needed to academic and research projects.

Getting Started

Please visit the Clemson C-Light page.