1. Florida International UniversityAMPATH AMPATH: Network of the Americas Heidi L. Alvarez heidi@fiu.edu Grid Workshop February 7-8 Rio de Janeiro,Brazil

2. Florida International UniversityAMPATH 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

3. Florida International UniversityAMPATH What is AMPATH? The AMPATH Network is built upon Global Crossing’s terrestrial and submarine optical-fiber networks But AMPATH is more than a Network for the Americas…

4.  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

5. Florida International UniversityAMPATH International Cable Landings

6. Florida International UniversityAMPATH 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

7. Florida International UniversityAMPATH AMPATH Service Area Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Mexico Panama Peru Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands Venezuela

8. Participating Country W Miami … … … ADM GC POPW n DS3s GC MAC/PAC/SAC Participating Country Y DS3 … … ADM Participating Country X DS3 GC POPY GC POPX GC POPZ DS3 Participating Country Z DS3 OC12 Abilene n DS3s DS3 STAR TAP Cisco GSR 12012 AMPATH Network AMPATHPOP OC3 Lucent CBX-500 Juniper M10 OC12 ATM NAP Peering Fabric 1000Mbps

9. Florida International UniversityAMPATH AMPATH Network Flexible and Scaleable SDH Infrastructure: Avoids ATM overhead Benefits Participant NRNs not using ATM ATM infrastructure: PVCs, PVPs Direct peering between Participants Optical infrastructure supporting wavelenghts Direct layer 2 or layer 3 connectivity to other countries connected to the AMPATH network.

10. 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 Global Crossing’s MAC/SAC/PAC ANSPRNP Aricebo Gemini

11. Florida International UniversityAMPATH AMPATH Engineering Support FIU Network Engineers Global NOC noc@ampath.net

12. StarLight Optical Network Connections Vancouver Seattle Portland San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego (SDSC) NCSA Chicago NYC SURFnet, CERN CA*net4 Asia- Pacific AMPATH PSC Atlanta IU U Wisconsin DTF 40Gb CA*net4

13. Florida International UniversityAMPATH Project Time Line Aug 2001 Connect Argentina Complete AMPATH Workshop Report Participate in HPIIS measurement workshop Sept 2001 Dec 2001 Connect AMPATH to StarLight NSF StarLight Support Proposal for the LISHEP Grid Workshop Connect ANSP Sao Paulo – DONE! Connect Gemini South Observatory, Chile “We’re Testing Now!” Move AMPATH to NAP Of The Americas – Some active equipment installed Connect Brazil and Puerto Rico Conduct workshop at FIU to identify science applications for collaboration in AMPATH Service Area Feb 2002 March 2002 Connect Venezuela. Identify funding a consortium activities to make the AMPATH / StarLight connection persistent in support of e-science

14. Florida International UniversityAMPATH Project Time Line 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) July 2002 Connect Peru, Colombia, USVI Participate in iGrid 2002 in Amsterdam with an AMPATH Service Area country application demonstration – BRAZIL? Connect remaining countries in the AMPATH Service Area September 2002 Ongoing Activity December 2002 First Int’l AMPATH Conference: Valdivia Chile April 10 – 12 with sponsorship from the US National Science Foundation. Please join us! April 2002

15. Florida International UniversityAMPATH Request for Application Information Request first issued April 2001 Workshop proposal submitted to the NSF’s CISE/ANIR Division awarded proposal for the AMPATH Workshop in August, 2001

16. Florida International UniversityAMPATH Application Information Results To date, 40 application information requests have been documented Requests cover a diverse field of study

17. Florida International UniversityAMPATH Application Information Results Having an advanced networking infrastructure for research & education would benefit research institutions in: - Argentina-Australia- Austria- Brazil - Canada- Chile- Colombia- Korea - Mexico- Panama- Puerto Rico- Peru - Singapore- Spain- US- Venezuela - West Indies And the list goes on…

18. Florida International UniversityAMPATH Application Information Results Bandwidth requirements range from 8 Mbps today to a projected 2.4 to 10 Gbps over the next 3 – 5 years. The average requirement today is between 45 and 155 Mbps.

19. Florida International UniversityAMPATH HEP Data Grids, the LHC and Global Networks Contact: Harvey B. Newman California Institute of Technology newman@hep.calte ch.edunewman@hep.calte ch.edu

20. Florida International UniversityAMPATH A Virtual Laboratory: NASA Astrobiology Institute, NASA Ames Research Center Contact: Hector D'Antoni NASA Ames Research Center hdantoni@mail.arc.na sa.gov

21. Florida International UniversityAMPATH Remote Sensing Research and Digital Archives at the University of Puerto Rico Contact: Roy Armstrong roy@cacique.uprm.edu NASA’s Tropical Center for Earth and Space Studies (TCESS) University of Puerto Rico. Fernando Gilbes gilbes@cacique.upr.clu.edu URL: http://sil.uprm.edu/http://sil.uprm.edu/

22. Florida International UniversityAMPATH TerraFly: NASA Regional Applications Center Contact: Naphtali Rishe Florida International University rishen@cs.fiu.edu Collaborators: US Geological Survey NASA National Science Foundation IBM URL: http://TerraFly.fiu.eduhttp://TerraFly.fiu.edu

23. Florida International UniversityAMPATH Use Of Metadata In Cross Language Information Retrieval For Multinational Counterdrug Agencies Contacts: Georgia Institute of Technology Laura Lucía Burkhart laura.burkhart@gtri.gatech.edu laura.burkhart@gtri.gatech.edu Jennie Lincoln jennie.lincoln@gtri.gatech.edu jennie.lincoln@gtri.gatech.edu Collaborators: US Southern Command JIATF-E Coast Guard Customs DEA ONDCP Department of State/INL

24. Florida International UniversityAMPATH Infrastructure Enabling Potential Areas of Collaboration Between the International Space Station and the Americas Contact: Bob Bradford NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center Flight Projects Directorate bob.bradford@msfc.nasa.gov 256-544-2843 URL: http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NE WMSFC/station.html http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NE WMSFC/station.html and http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/stati on/index.html http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/stati on/index.html

25. Florida International UniversityAMPATH Instituto Nacional de Pequisas Espaciais Sao Paolo, Brazil Contact: Andy Germain andyg@rattler-f.gsfc.nasa.gov andyg@rattler-f.gsfc.nasa.gov Jose Bacellar HSB Project INPE Brazil Jose.Bacellar@dss.inpe.br URL: http://corn.eos.nasa.gov/perfor mance/Net_Health/files/INPE- IDN.html http://corn.eos.nasa.gov/perfor mance/Net_Health/files/INPE- IDN.html and http://corn.eos.nasa.gov/perfor mance/Net_Health/files/INPE- HSB.html http://corn.eos.nasa.gov/perfor mance/Net_Health/files/INPE- HSB.html

26. Florida International UniversityAMPATH More Observatory Opportunities In addition to Gemini and Arecibo, AmPATH can provide connectivity for other US funded projects in the Service Area. For example: –Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Project—Chile –The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research—Brazil –Yale Southern Observatory—Argentina

27. Florida International UniversityAMPATH NGIX in Miami? AMPATH is seeking connectivity to the US Federal networks: –NREN, NISN, Esnet, DREN –Universities and research organizations using AMPATH are very interested in connectivity to the US Federal networks US federal agency projects require network connectivity to South American countries

28. Florida International UniversityAMPATH NSF 0123388 Award FIU AMPATH Workshop to Identify Areas of Scientific Collaboration between the US and the AMPATH Service Area, August 15 – 17, 2001 AmericasPATH (AMPATH) Computational Science and Engineering Applications http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/APPLICATIONS/Appendix A.htm Tell us about your applications. Complete the Request for Application Information at: http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/application_info_req.htm http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/application_info_req.htm

29. Florida International UniversityAMPATH What Can You Do with a 10Gbps Network? We hereby challenge the international research community to demonstrate applications that benefit from huge amounts of bandwidth! How will you use a 2.5Gbps (10Gbps? 40Gbps?) global network? How will you change your application codes? How will you expand the complexity of the problem you are solving? We welcome your participation in iGrid 2002, to showcase novel techniques for problem solving enabled by newly affordable global wavelengths. iGrid 2002 is soliciting demonstrations that showcase both technological innovations and application advancements requiring high-end optical networks. AMPATH wants you ! www.startap.net/igrid2002/

30. Florida International UniversityAMPATH Scientists Using AMPATH US scientists conducting high-quality science in the AMPATH Service Area Latin American scientists who are recognized research leaders Professionals from National Research Networks that support high- performance network-dependent applications for science, research and education

31. Florida International UniversityAMPATH Scientists Talking About Using AMPATH Miami Workshop, August 15, 2001 Jim Kennedy (Gemini), Tom Greene (NSF) and Julio Ibarra (Director of AMPATH) Richard Crutcher (NSCA), Tom Troland (UKY) Naphtali Rishe (Terrefly- FIU) Surredra Saxena (FIU) and Armando Fernández Guillermet (Centro Atómico Bariloche-Instituto Balseiro, Argentina)

32. Florida International UniversityAMPATH 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

33. Florida International UniversityAMPATH Goals Strengthen weak links: –Shared OC3 to Abilene will not scale to support 10 DS3s Planned upgrade to an OC12 this year –Access to the US Federal Research and Education Networks Attract the US Federal Networks to Miami –Fund a persistent link to StarLight

34. Florida International UniversityAMPATH Goals Position AMPATH as a future lambda connect point directly linking optical networks in the AMPATH Service Area to each other, to StarLight, and beyond Provide value added services in Miami at FIU and the NAP of the Americas –Global Digital Electronic Collaborative (GloDEC) Learning Network (NSF CISE-MII Proposal Pending) –Digital Libraries –Data Servers –Disaster Recovery Facilities –Network Security Monitoring

35. Florida International UniversityAMPATH AMPATH Project Sponsors The National Science Foundation Advanced Network Infrastructure and Research –Aubrey Bush –Thomas Green –Donald “Chip” Cox Florida International University Global Crossing Terremark Worldwide, Inc. Cisco Systems Juniper Networks

36. Florida International UniversityAMPATH AMPATH: Network of the Americas Thank you !!! LISHEP GRID WORKSHOP www.ampath.fiu.eduwww.ampath.fiu.edu ampath@fiu.eduampath@fiu.edu