Philly Startup Leaders has thrown down the gauntlet for a gigabit.
The group voted at a meeting Wednesday night to take all of its money not committed to its upcoming Entrepreneur Expo and put it toward a prize to award to the person with the best idea for an application of a super-high bandwidth network.
The impetus for that was Google Inc.’s announcement last month that it plans to build a super-high bandwidth network in one or more locations to test new network deployment technologies and see what applications will be inspired by the network’s speeds, which will top one gigabit per second.
Google gave places interested in hosting the network until March 26 to submit online responses saying why they would be a good host site.
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Author: Peter Key
