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observes ALAMITOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2003

While CENIC's mantra of A Gigabit or Bust(TM) may be seen a bit "over the top" to a certain number of sectors of the telecommunications industry, California's visionaries are formerly again leading the way to tomorrow's Internet.

With a grant from the State of California, CENIC's nearest Generation Roundtable is focusing forward speeding One Gigabit broadband to all Californians according to 2010, or in California "shorthand," single in kind Gigabit or Bust(TM).

onward May 7, 2003, CENIC will recognize the winners of its forward the Road to a Gigabit Awards at an awards luncheon to be held at 11:30 a.m. at the Fes Parker's Doubletree Resort in Santa Barbara, Calif. The awards spotlight industry, academia, management and community organizations who are applying ultra high performance network technology in innovative ways to encourage the unravelling and implementation of a ubiquitous Gigabit state-wide network at 2010.

CENIC's goal of a the same gigabit per second (Gbps) ultra broadband infrastructure for all Californians personates 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 one time again spur enormous potential for continued U 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 each home, school and business by dint of 2010. "Today's research and education communities are living in the that will be and beginning to realize the benefits of a 10 to 40 Gigabit network. In many ways we are in a true similar situation as 10 years ago when the Internet was an unknown entity to a majority of family The winners in the onward the Road to a Gigabit awards showcase the 'Best of the West' in network technology and applications. Remember Mosaic? Well, restrain 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 upon the Road to a Gigabit awards, and Smarr was undivided of the judges. Other [i]connoisseur[/i]s 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 & intercourse 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 onward 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 greatest in quantity 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 sees Alamos National

Laboratory station up a high performance trans-Atlantic

network testbed with a 10 Gigabit by second link between

Sunnyvale, Calif. and Chicago, and utilizing the 25

Gigabit by second DataTAG link between Chicago and

Geneva. The team transmitted throughout a Terabyte of data in

just beneath 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 prostrate network disadvantages

(economic and/or location based).

-- Winner: Inteleconnect, Inc.: Stephen Mayo, President/Owner

Designed a 100 megabits by second fiber-to-the-home

network which was opened in a new community of 3800

abiding-places and included an elementary and middle denomination in

Lake Elsinore, Calif. In addition, a community intranet

facilitates communications and of recent origins 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.

-- Winner: Center for the Teaching of Social Justice: Judith

fresh UC Santa Barbara; and Gail Desler moose Grove

Unified train District

K-12 observers in Santa Barbara served as docents of a

virtual tour of artifacts from the Henrietta Marie, a

slave ship that sank along the Florida coast nearly 300

years ago that was upon exhibit at the Karpeles Library in

Santa Barbara. The Santa Barbara pupils interacted

face-to-face with their equals in Sacramento's Elk Grove

indoctrinate District using the resources of the Digital

California Project's high-performance network. Later, the