Welcome to NorthernLights GigaPoP

Northern Lights GigaPoP is an advanced regional networking initiative operated by the University of Minnesota. The mission of Northern Lights is the deployment of emerging applications and technologies to provide high performance networking for the research and education community. Organizations eligible to participate in Northern Lights generally include colleges, universities and other educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and others that routinely collaborate with the research and education community on instructional, clinical and/or research projects and services.