1. Florida International UniversityAMPATH AMPATH: Pathway of the Americas Julio Ibarra Principal Investigator Julio.Ibarra@fiu.edu International Task Force Meeting Internet2 Member Meeting Spring 2002

2. Florida International UniversityAMPATH What is AMPATH? AMPATH is a project led by FIU, with partial support from the National Science Foundation to interconnect the RENs in South and Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico to US and non-US NRENs networks via Internet2's Abilene network

3. Florida International UniversityAMPATH What is AMPATH? The AMPATH Network is built upon Global Crossing’s terrestrial and submarine optical-fiber networks AMPATH began with a generous donation of 10 DS3 circuits for three years from Global Crossing

4. Florida International UniversityAMPATH What is AMPATH? AMPATH is the effective international peering and interconnection point for Research and Education networks for South and Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean Located in the NAP Of The Americas –5 th Tier-1 NAP in the US –Strategically located to serve Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern Europe and Africa –Close to major carrier PoPs and 7 worldwide international undersea cable landings Columbus-2, Telefonica Sam-1, 360 Networks, Global Crossing, Americas-2, MAYA1, ARCOS-1 Strategic Corporate and Community Support –10 DS3s from Global Crossing –Cisco GSR 12012, Lucent CBX 500 ATM switch, Juniper M10 router –Collocation in the NAP of the Americas –Shared OC3 to Abilene with the South Florida GigaPOP

5. Florida International UniversityAMPATH AMPATH Service Area South America Central America Caribbean Mexico

6. Florida International UniversityAMPATH St. Croix Venezuela Brazil Argentina Chile Peru Colombia Panama Mexico Puerto Rico REUNA RETINA RNP REACCIUN US VI AMPATH CINTEL RCP SENACYT CUDIUPR NAP Of The Americas Abilene StarLight STAR TAP AMPATH Network Service Fiber Pairs Protection Fiber Pairs Global Crossing’s MAC/SAC/PAC ANSPRNP Aricebo Gemini

7. Networks reachable via AMPATH – by country Europe-Middle East Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Cyprus Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Asia-Pacific Australia China Hong Kong Japan Korea Singapore Taiwan Thailand Americas Argentina Brazil Canada Chile Mexico United States Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom *CERN Heather Boyles Presentation AMPATH Conference Chile 4/12/02

8. Florida International UniversityAMPATH AMPATH NSF Funded Meetings FIU AMPATH Workshop to Identify Areas of Scientific Collaboration between the US and the AMPATH Service Area August 16, 2001 NSF Award #0123388 Grid Workshop February 7-8, 2002 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil NSF Award #0215434 First International AMPATH Conference, April 10 -12, 2002 Valdivia Chile NSF Award #0220176

9. Florida International UniversityAMPATH e-Science Applications August, 2001 AMPATH Workshop in Miami to identify scientific research applications ~ 40 applications identified http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/workshop.htm

10. Florida International UniversityAMPATH The Gemini Observatory The Premier National Observatory for Seven Nations on Four Continents

11. Florida International UniversityAMPATH More e-Science Opportunities In addition to Gemini and Arecibo, AMPATH can provide connectivity for other US funded projects in the Service Area. For example: Radio and Optical Astronomy –Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Project—Chile –Pierre Auger Observatory, Argentina –Yale Southern Observatory—Argentina Life Sciences –The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research— Headquarters, Brazil HEP Data Grids, the LHC and Global Networks International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory National Virtual Observatory (NVO)

12. Florida International UniversityAMPATH AMPATH Thank You Pathway of the Americas Julio Ibarra Julio.Ibarra@fiu.edu www.ampath.fiu.edu