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What is AMPATH™?

FIU has developed an international, high-performance research connection point in Miami, Florida, called AMPATH (AMericasPATH). One of AMPATH’s goals is to enable wide-bandwidth digital communications between the Abilene network and ten National Research and Education Networks (NRNs) in South and Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico, as well as a variety of US research programs in the region.

South Florida – because of the number of undersea fiber cables landing on its east coast and because it possesses a rich terrestrial fiber infrastructure - is strategically positioned as a major international exchange point (IXP) for the research and education networks in South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. The AMPATH IXP in Miami offers connectivity to the Abilene Internet2 high-performance research and education network and the StarLight IXP in Chicago. Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies and Juniper Networks donated carrier-class network equipment; and Terremark Worldwide, Inc. donated collocation space in the NAP Of The Americas. Since June 2001, the AMPATH project has connected four National Research and Education Networks in South America: REUNA of Chile, RNP of Brazil, CNTI of Venezuela and RETINA of Argentina; the Academic Network of Sao Paolo, ANSP, which is a State-funded network; the University of Puerto Rico; New World Symphony; Florida International University; the Arecibo observatory; and the Gemini-South telescope.

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