Over the last five years, Louisiana has taken giant strides in positioning itself into being a large scale IT/IT Sciences and Biosciences player.

Investments by the state have included a $40 Million in the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative the LONI line connects North Louisiana to at least 5 supercomputers located at major research institutions around the state. The speed of which is 40 billion bits of date per second allowing the opportunity to play a major role in the NLR (National Lambda Rail).

Louisiana has taken major strides in research in concert with the LONI by Operating three IT Incubators in the state:

• Louisiana Tech Technology Incubator
• Louisiana Technology Incubator for Entrepreneurial Success at ULL
• Louisiana Business Technology Center

LONI also hosts the Louisiana Immersive Technology Enterprise (LITE). LITE is a state of the art visualization facility in Lafayette which encompasses the worlds first six-sided, digital virtual reality cube as world as the worlds largest 3-D auditorium.

Much of this can be discovered and researched further by linking below to the following sites:
Louisiana Economic Departent - Information Technology
Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise