Office of the Vice President

David E. Jent
Associate Vice President, Networks

For more than 20 years, David Jent has worked at Indiana University in all aspects of network design, installation, project management, and strategic direction setting. His strong network background provides a stable foundation for leading senior technical staff and managing complex network engineering design issues, and for managing critical relationships with the National Research and Education Network community. His current portfolio includes managing the Global Research Network Operations Center Engineering team, which operates over 10 state, national and international R&E networks including the New Internet2 Network and National Lambda Rail. Jent is also the managing director of operations for the Indiana GigaPop. Located in diverse co-location facilities in Indianapolis and Chicago, the Indiana GigaPop provides commodity internet and R&E network connectivity to major state/regional institutions. The GigaPop is active in the Quilt organization and in projects in the state of Indiana to further the deployment of high speed networking. His division supports the I-Light project, the optical network that connects Indiana schools of higher education. In the recent past Jent served as project manager for the Next Generation Abilene Router (NGAR) deployment project. He was also the project manager for the installation of dark fiber between Bloomington, Indianapolis, and West Lafayette. This network was the first university-owned dark fiber infrastructure of its size in the nation. Jent has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Technology from Purdue University, awarded at IUPUI.

Selected Publications

• Jent, D.E. (2002) Next Generation Abilene Router Upgrade & Deployment. Proceedings of Internet 2 Members Meeting, August 2002, Los Angeles , California .
• Jent, D.E. and Love, P.E. (2001) Abilene & Sponsored Participants: An Introductory Technical Tutorial. Proceedings of APAN/TransPAC/NLANR/Internet2 Joint Techs Conference, January 2001, Waikiki , Hawaii .
• Jent, D.E. and Love, P.E. (2001) Abilene SEGPs - A Tutorial on Technical Considerations. Proceedings of NLANR/Internet2 Joint Techs Conference May, 2001, Lincoln , Nebraska

Contact Information

Office of the Vice President for Information Technology & CIO
2709 E. 10th Street, Suite 301
Bloomington, IN 47408
812-856-0763
812-855-3310 (fax)
djent@iu.edu