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Call For Entries For The On the
Road To A Gigabit Awards
CENIC invites industry, academia, government, and community organizations
to
apply for the On the Road to a Gigabit Awards. The awards honor California
visionaries who are applying network technology in innovative ways to
encourage the development and implementation of a ubiquitous gigabit
state-wide network by 2010.
CENIC's goal of a one gigabit per second (Gbps) ultra broadband
infrastructure
for all Californians represents more than a thousand-fold increase from
today's commercial DSL and cable networks.
The awardees will be announced on May 7, 2003 in Santa Barbara, California,
in
conjunction with the CENIC 2003 annual conference to be held at the Fess
Parkers Doubletree Resort.
Showcasing the pioneering ideas of today's visionaries and the promise of
tomorrow's Internet, the awards highlight the technologies paving the road to
a gigabit world.
The On the Road to a Gigabit Awards will honor the best uses of high
performance networking in the following areas:
- Biggest, Fastest in the West: The Biggest, Fastest in the West Award
honors
the fastest and most scalable high-performance networking
application/technology.
- Community: The Community Award honors innovative uses of high-performance
networking to overcome network disadvantages (economic and/or location
based).
- Education: The Education Award honors innovative uses of high-performance
networking in K-12 and higher education.
- Gigabit or Bust: The Gigabit or Bust Award honors the high-performance
networking application/technology that best exemplifies what life would be
like in a gigabit-connected world.
- Innovation: The Innovation Award recognizes innovative contributions to
high-performance networking that best exemplify the creative spirit and the
bottoms-up philosophy that created the Internet.
- Partnership: The Partnership Award honors the best use of high-performance
networking developed by a private/public partnership.
Organizations interested in the competition can still apply today at
www.cenic.org/CENIC2003/NGIAwards/NGIAwards.htm.
For more information on the awards, contact Molly Petrick, CENIC NGI
Roundtable Director, molly@cenic.org.
All entries for the 2003 On the Road to a Gigabit Awards must be received
by
March 31, 2003.
For more information on CENIC, its 2003 conference, and the On the Road to
a Gigabit Awards, see www.cenic.org.
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