AMPATH Status Report

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

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

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What is AMPATH?

• AMPATH is built upon Global Crossings
  terrestrial and submarine optical-fiber networks

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

• FIU Network Engineers
• Global NOC

noc_at_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

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International Cable Landings
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Project Time Line
Connect Brazil and Puerto Rico Conduct workshop
at FIU to identify science applications for
collaboration in AMPATH Service Area
Aug 2001

Participate in HPIIS measurement workshop
Connect Argentina Complete AMPATH Workshop Report
Sept 2001
Move AMPATH to NAP Of The Americas Connect
Panama, Mexico, USVI, Venezuela Position AMPATH
for participation in the StarLight project
Dec 2001
Connect Peru and Colombia Connect remaining
countries in the AMPATH Service Area
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
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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

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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

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AMPATH Information
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AMPATH Workshop

• Thank you

www.ampath.fiu.edu