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Special Features:
WINNERS OF 'ON THE ROAD TO A
GIGABIT' AWARDS ANNOUNCED
California's visionaries once again are leading the way to tomorrow's
Internet
through the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California's One
Gigabit or Bust Initiative. For a glimpse of life in a gigabit-enabled world,
CENIC and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information
Technology [Cal-(IT)2] co-sponsor the annual "On the Road to a Gigabit"
awards. The On the Road to a Gigabit awards showcase the pioneering ideas of
today's visionaries and the promise of tomorrow's Internet, as well as
highlight the technologies paving the road to a gigabit world.
The experts judging the nominations included Kathie Hackler, research vice
president at Gartner Consulting; Molly Petrick, Contra Costa Water District;
John Silvester, vice provost for scholarly technology at the University of
Southern California; Larry Smarr, Cal-(IT)2 director; and Bill St. Arnaud,
senior director of advanced networks at CANARIE.
The On the Road to a Gigabit categories for the best uses of high
performance
networking include:
Biggest, Fastest in the West: This award honors the fastest and most
scalable high-performance networking application/technology.
Winner: On Demand Infrastructure: San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC),
Patricia Kovatch; IBM, Roger Haskin
Grid computing is potentially the biggest change on the horizon for
high-performance computing. With SDSC's "on demand" infrastructure, scientists
can share data efficiently and effectively between site, they will have the
ability to run jobs anywhere without shipping data to the selected site, and
have the ability to use data from anywhere and at high speeds. Community: The Community Award honors innovative uses of high-performance
networking to overcome network disadvantages (economic and/or location
based).
Winner: Behind the Redwood Curtain: Redwood Technology Consortium, Tina
Nerat
Humboldt County on the North Coast of California was a poignant example of
the
digital divide, where the only link to move data was an at-capacity microwave
link. The RTC, via broadband advocacy, illustrated the power of what a
community can accomplish when it unites behind a common goal. By galvanizing
local government, businesses and individuals, RTC helped Humboldt County
complete a 21-mile fiber gap and bring advanced telecommunications services to
this rural area. Education: The Education Award honors innovative uses of high-performance
networking in K-12 and higher education.
Winner: Education Telecommunications Network (ETN): Los Angeles County
Office
of Education, Richard Quiñones
Educational Telecommunications Network's (ETN) track record of local and
national telecasts is now being directed toward moving content over the
CalREN-DC network, thus providing more tools for educators, the general public
and other consumers of education. ETN supplies educators with the means to
reach learners through a combination of traditional broadcast media
production, digital technology enhancements and the ongoing exploration of new
digital technologies.
Honorable Mention: Teaching and Learning Interchange (TLI): Pamela Redmond,
University of San Francisco; Glen Thomas, California County Superintendents
Education Services Association; J. Chuck Taylor, Kings County Office of
Education; Grace Ko, San Diego County Office of Education; Bill Engelhardt,
San Joaquin County Office of Education; and Judy Shulman, WestEd Gigabit or Bust: This award honors the high-performance networking
application/technology that best exemplifies what life would be like in a
gigabit-connected world.
Winner: Desert Sands Gigabit Ethernet: Desert Sands Unified School District
(DSUSD), George Araya
Supporting a student population of more than 26,000 at 28 school sites,
DSUSD
partnered with providers of service, equipment, and infrastructure to enable
early adoption of Gigabit technology by a mid-size K-12 environment. This
group implemented a gigabit-capable network within the boundaries of its
territory to provide gigabit-to-the-desktop for every teacher and student.
Honorable Mention: Education Applications for a Gigabit Network: El Monte
Union High School District, Garrett McKay 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: Fontana ACES-Advanced Community and Educational Services Network:
City
of Fontana, Janice McClintock
The City of Fontana has embarked on a process to build out an advanced
communications services network to leave no part of the city behind,
regardless of economic level or zoning. The network will link all businesses,
schools, hospitals and homes with a fiber-optic infrastructure owned by the
City, in the same manner it owns sewers and roads. Partnership: This award honors the best use of high-performance networking
developed by a private/public partnership.
Winner: Ultralight Partnership: California Institute of Technology, Sylvain
Ravot; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), R. Les Cottrell; CERN,
Olivier Martin; Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Wu-chun Feng.
Teams of physicists, computer scientiss, and network engineers at Caltech,
CERN, SLAC, LANL, Fermilab, Florida International University, University of
Florida, University of Michigan, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the MIT
Haystack Observatory have started to develop and deploy UltraLight, the first
of a new class of integrated information systems to support the decades-long
research program at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The project has
profound implications for integrating information sharing and on-demand
audiovisual collaboration in our daily lives, at a scale and quality
previously unimaginable.
Honorable Mention: George Wright Society's Virtual Trip to Fish Creek:
California State Parks, Alan Friedman; HPWREN, Hans-Werner Braun; San Diego
County Office of Education, Harry Bloome
On March 15, CENIC will recognize the winners of the On the Road to a
Gigabit
Awards at an awards luncheon to be held at 11:30 a.m. at the Ritz-Carlton in
Marina del Rey, Calif. The ceremony will be held in conjunction with the CENIC
2004 annual conference at the Ritz-Carlton, March 15-17. The 2nd One Gigabit
or Bust Roundtable will immediately follow CENIC's annual conference March
17-18. This Roundtable is organized around topical task forces that are
identifying the opportunities and obstacles to achieving one gigabit
throughout California by 2010 and establishing an action plan to achieve this
goal. For more information about the Roundtable, please see
www.cenic.org/GB/meetings/31704/index.htm.
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