The “Internet of Things threatens to generate massive amounts of input data from sources that are globally distributed,” confirms Fabrizio Biscotti, research director at Gartner. And given the coming volumes of data, Biscotti continues that comprehensive backups “will present potentially insoluble governance issues, such as network bandwidth and remote storage bandwidth, and capacity to back up all raw data is likely to be unaffordable.”
This is a reality facing education campuses around the country and the world. The need for high-capacity bandwidth to run current IT systems and add advanced learning platforms and capabilities is huge and growing.
NERCOMP, the Northeast Regional Computing Program, is a conference taking place March 24-26 in Providence, Rhode Island, that addresses the networking and learning needs of the higher education IT community. Lightower has extensive experience 
providing next-generation networking solutions to education institutions throughout the Northeast. The company enables advanced learning environments across high-performance all-fiber networks that connect campuses, deliver high-performance Internet access, form the basis of critical disaster recovery solutions and more.
Lightower offers services in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under the ITT46 Network Services contract. Awarded by the Commonwealth in conjunction with the Massachusetts Higher Education Consortium, this contract enables Lightower to provide networking solutions to Massachusetts Higher Education Consortium (MHEC) members and state purchasing agents throughout all New England states.
To connect with Lightower at NERCOMP 2014, visit booth 114 or email info@lightower.com. For more information, visit www.lightower.com or call 1.888.LT.FIBER.
