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AMPATH Status Report: 

AMPATH Status Report Julio E. Ibarra Principal Investigator, AMPATH August 23, 2001

What is AMPATH?: 

What is AMPATH? AMPATH is a project led by FIU, in collaboration with Global Crossing (GC), to interconnect the R&E networks in South and Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico to US and non-US R&E networks via Internet2's Abilene network

What is AMPATH?: 

What is AMPATH? AMPATH is built upon Global Crossing’s terrestrial and submarine optical-fiber networks

What is AMPATH?: 

What is AMPATH? 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

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St. Croix Venezuela Brazil Argentina Chile Peru Colombia Panama Mexico Puerto Rico RETINA REACCIUN AMPATH CINTEL NAP Of The Americas Abilene STAR TAP AMPATH Network Service Fiber Pairs Protection Fiber Pairs Global Crossing’s MAC/SAC/PAC

AMPATH Engineering Support: 

AMPATH Engineering Support FIU Network Engineers Global NOC noc@ampath.net

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Fifth Tier-1 NAP Strategically located to serve Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern Europe and Africa Close to major carrier POPs and 7 worldwide undersea cable landings

International Cable Landings: 

International Cable Landings

Project Time Line: 

Project Time Line Aug 2001 Connect Argentina Complete AMPATH Workshop Report Participate in HPIIS measurement workshop Sept 2001 Dec 2001 Move AMPATH to NAP Of The Americas Connect Panama, Mexico, USVI, Venezuela Position AMPATH for participation in the StarLight project April 2002 Work with Project Participants to exceed bandwidth utilization Develop value added services to support next generation networks and research (e-science, global distributed systems, data grids) Dec 2002 Connect Peru and Colombia Connect remaining countries in the AMPATH Service Area Connect Brazil and Puerto Rico Conduct workshop at FIU to identify science applications for collaboration in AMPATH Service Area

Metrics: 

Metrics Bandwidth utilization Traffic characteristics TCP, UDP, multicast, unicast Ports Flow metrics, NetFlow Link latency over time Important with international links Monitoring latency between Miami and Santiago Soon latency measurements from Miami to Puerto Rico and Brazil will be available Application level performance metrics

Goals: 

Goals Fully utilize the capacity of the donated DS3s: Science and education applications Partnerships Activities Optical wavelengths Optical routing IPv6 Multicast QoS Access Grid MPLS tunnels Wireless to wired networks

AMPATH Information: 

AMPATH Information

AMPATH Workshop: 

AMPATH Workshop Thank you www.ampath.fiu.edu