About the ICCN
A partner for the future of research and education at the University of Illinois
The Intercampus Communications Network (ICCN) at the University of Illinois is a high-speed data network that connects all three University campuses — Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield — in a high-availability, redundant, and cost-efficient manner, and offers the University system access to bandwidth orders of magnitude greater than before for only a marginal cost increase.
The ICCN also acts as the Internet service provider for the Urbana and Springfield campuses and offers the University system and select constituents access to bandwidth orders of magnitude greater than before.
By using this bandwidth in concert with the shared Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) infrastructure called OmniPoP, the ICCN affords the University the necessary capacity to connect the three campuses to each other and to research networks and peer universities at much higher speeds than was possible before.
The ICCN fiber also connects to existing fiber rings in Chicago that are co-owned by the CIC, which includes all Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago. The CIC fiber rings connect with all the major telecommunications carriers and all the major research networks' Points of Presence (POPs).