Its coming.  The research network is coming!

“…The significant expansion of the network being undertaken in this
project will make several hundred 10 Gbps ports available in
laboratories and offices across two major campuses of Penn State. This
expansion is accomplished by deploying 48-port 10 Gbps Ethernet
switches in 12 separate buildings with highest concentration of faculty
who rely on large computational and data resources for advanced
teaching and research. Each of these 12 switches is slated to have two
10 Gbps uplinks, one to each core router for redundancy. Both core
routers will have 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps ports for external connectivity.
The overall goal of the project is to provide at least a ten-fold increase
in end-to-end network connectivity in labs and offices, making
sustained 10 Gbps connections ubiquitous between faculty laboratories,
data-generating instruments, select classrooms, and local and national
computational and data resources. ” – #1245980, PI: Agarwala,
PSU, “CC-NIE Network Infrastructure: Accelerating the
Build-out of a Dedicated Network for Education and
Research in Big Data Science and Engineering”

Source: http://www.nsf.gov/attachments/126052/public/CCNIE_Dec2012_ACCI.pdf