Scientific
Applications:
CENIC ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF ITS
GIGABIT AWARDS
While CENIC's (Corp for Education Network Initiatives in CA) mantra of A
Gigabit or Bust may seem a bit "over the top" to some sectors of the
telecommunications industry, California's visionaries are once again leading
the way to tomorrow's Internet.
With a grant from the State of California, CENIC's Next Generation
Roundtable
is focusing on speeding One Gigabit broadband to all Californians by 2010, or
in California "shorthand," One Gigabit or Bust.
On May 7, 2003, CENIC will recognize the winners of its On the Road to a
Gigabit Awards at an awards luncheon to be held at 11:30 a.m. at the Fess
Parker's Doubletree Resort in Santa Barbara, California. The awards spotlight
industry, academia, government, and community organizations who are applying
ultra high performance 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. It is this increased functionality
and performance of the nation's broadband infrastructure that promises to once
again spur enormous potential for continued U.S. economic growth.
Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technology and Harry E. Gruber Professor in the UC San Diego
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, lauded CENIC for advocating a
Gigabit or Bust to every home, school, and business by 2010. "Today's
research and education communities are living in the future and beginning to
realize the benefits of a 10 to 40 Gigabit network. In many ways we are in a
very similar situation as 10 years ago when the Internet was an unknown entity
to a majority of people. The winners of the On the Road to a Gigabit awards
showcase the "Best of the West" in network technology and applications.
Remember Mosaic? Well, hold on to your hats, we're just getting a glimpse of
living in a Gigabit world."
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology,
also known as Cal-(IT)2, co-sponsored the On the Road to a Gigabit awards, and
Smarr was one of the judges. Other experts judging the nominations included
Susan Estrada, CEO, Aldea Communications; Jim Hawley, Director of California
Outreach, TechNet; Jeff Newman, Partnership Manager, Division of Science,
Technology, and Innovation, California Technology, Trade & Commerce Agency;
John Silvester, Vice Provost for Scholarly Technology, University of Southern
California; and Thomas W. West, President of CENIC.
CENIC received more than 60 nominations for the On the Road to a Gigabit
Awards; the categories for the best uses of high performance networking
include:
Biggest, Fastest in the West: The Biggest, Fastest in the West Award honors
the fastest and most scalable high-performance networking
application/technology.
Winner: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC): R. Les Cottrell,
Assistant Director, SLAC Computer Services
Scientists at Caltech, CERN, SLAC, and Los Alamos National Laboratory set
up
a
high performance trans-Atlantic network testbed with a 10 Gigabit per second
link between Sunnyvale, California and Chicago, and utilizing the 2.5 Gigabit
per second DataTAG link between Chicago and Geneva, Switzerland. The team
transmitted over a Terabyte of data in just under an hour from SLAC near
Sunnyvale to CERN in Geneva.
Honorable Mention: University of Southern California-Information Sciences
Institute: James Pepin, CTO, Director, Center for High Performance Computing
and Communications
Community: The Community Award honors innovative uses of high-performance
networking to overcome network disadvantages (economic and/or location
based).
Winner: Inteleconnect, Inc.: Stephen Mayo, President/Owner
Designed a 100 megabits per second fiber-to-the-home network which was
deployed in a new community of 3,800 homes, and included an elementary and
middle school, in Lake Elsinore, California. In addition, a community
intranet facilitates communications and news within the community.
Honorable Mention: California State Parks: Allan Friedman, CIO
Education: The Education Award honors innovative uses of high-performance
networking in K-12 and higher education.
o Winner: Center for the Teaching of Social Justice: Judith Green, UC
Santa
Barbara; and Gail Desler, Elk Grove Unified School District
K-12 students in Santa Barbara served as docents of a virtual tour of
artifacts from the Henrietta Marie, a slave ship that sank off the Florida
coast nearly 300 years ago that was on exhibit at the Karpeles Library in
Santa Barbara. The Santa Barbara students interacted face-to-face with their
peers in Sacramento's Elk Grove School District using the resources of the
Digital California Project's high-performance network. Later, the Sacramento
students shared their expertise on life in migrant camps.
Honorable Mention: Orange County Department of Education: Sandra Lapham,
Administrator, Instructional Technology
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.
Winner: Imperial County Office of Education: Todd Finnell, Director,
Learning Technologies
Imperial County has developed a ubiquitous countywide Gigabit Ethernet
fiber-
optic network connecting schools and public agencies throughout their remote
and under-served region.
Honorable Mention: City College of San Francisco: Tim A. Ryan, Network
Manager
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.
Winner: Dandin Group, Dewayne Hendricks, CEO
As part of the National Science Foundation program for Advanced Networking
with Minority-serving Institutions (AN-MSI), Motorola's wireless unlicensed
Canopy solution has been deployed on three Indian Reservations. Motorola's
Canopy solution set a distance record for wireless products of this class of
27 miles, delivering 20 megabits of bandwidth.
Honorable Mention: ArrayComm: Katie Juran, Corporate Communications
Director
Partnership: The Partnership Award honors the best use of high-performance
networking developed by a private/public partnership.
Winner: El Monte Union High School District and SBC: Garett McKay,
Director
of Information Services Technology, El Monte; and Ken Mills, Technical Sales
Engineer, SBC
The economically-disadvantaged school district worked with network
equipment
vendors to develop a creative capability for gigabit bandwidth on demand to
all of the district's high schools.
Honorable Mention: Light Bridge, Sonoma State University: James Fouche,
Director
The On the Road to a Gigabit Awards ceremony will be held in conjunction
with
the CENIC 2003 annual conference at the Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort in
Santa Barbara, California, May 7, 8 and 9. The first day of the conference
not only highlights the technologies paving the road to a Gigabit world, but
also showcases the developments of CENIC's Next Generation Internet
Roundtable, including the release of the CENIC-commissioned study by Gartner
entitled "One Gigabit or Bust Initiative-A Broadband Vision for
California."
For more information on the awards, contact Molly Petrick, CENIC NGI
Roundtable Director, molly@cenic.org
For complimentary media registration, contact Julie Van Fleet by phone at
619.276.0090 or by email at Julie@cenic.org.
About CENIC
CENIC is a not-for-profit corporation serving the California Institute of
Technology, California State University, Stanford University, University of
California, University of Southern California, California Community Colleges
and the statewide K-12 school system. CENIC's mission is to facilitate and
coordinate the development, deployment and operation of a set of robust multi-
tiered advanced network services for this research and education community.
More information about CENIC can be found at www.cenic.org.
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