[Gb-today] Dec 5th Deadline - 2004 On the Road to a Gigabit Awards

[editor at cenic.org]

CENIC invites industry, academia, government, and community organizations to
apply for the 2004 On the Road to a Gigabit Awards.  Cosponsored by CENIC
and Cal(IT)2, 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.

To enter the awards program see
http://www.cenic.org/CENIC2004/awards/awards.htm.  Completed entry forms
must be submitted by December 5, 2003.  Awards will be announced at CENIC's
annual conference in March 2004.

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 are comprised of leaders in industry, government and academia.