CENIC Invites Nominees for Gigabit Awards

10.2.03 - CENIC invites industry, academia, government, and community organizations to apply for the 2004 On the Road to a Gigabit Awards. Co-sponsored by CENIC and Calit², the awards honor the pioneering ideas of California's visionaries and the promise of tomorrow's Internet by highlighting technologies paving the road to a ubiquitous gigabit statewide network by 2010.

Awards are expected to be offered in the following categories:

• Biggest, Fastest in the West: The fastest and most scalable high-performance networking application/technology

• Community: Innovative uses of high-performance networking to overcome network disadvantages (economic and/or location based)

• Education: Innovative uses of high-performance networking in K-12 and higher education

• Gigabit or Bust: The high-performance networking application/technology that best exemplifies what life would be like in a gigabit-connected world

• Innovation: Innovative contributions to high-performance networking that best exemplify the creative spirit and the bottoms-up philosophy that created the Internet

• Partnership: The best use of high-performance networking developed by a private/public partnership Evaluation Criteria: The extent to which the application/technology meets the stated goals of the award category

• The extent to which the application/technology promotes the development and implementation of a ubiquitous gigabit state-wide network by 2010

• The impact and benefits of the application/technology Judging: Judges will be comprised of leaders in industry, government and academia.