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AMPATH adds Top Research Connection Point in Sao Paolo,
Brazil to its Americas High-Speed Network
- AMPATH, supported in part by grants from the National
Science Foundation, began as a collaborative project between Florida
International University and Global Crossing.
- Academic Network at São Paulo (ANSP), the network of
the State of São Paulo in Brazil, will benefit from the advanced speed and
connection to U.S.-based universities and research centers.
- Global Crossing is donating bandwidth for this
project.
MIAMI - (March 6, 2002) -- The AmericasPath (AMPATH)
project is announcing the recent connection of the Academic Network at São
Paulo (ANSP), the network of the State of São Paulo in Brazil. Late last year,
ANSP and Florida International University (FIU) signed a Memorandum of
Understanding to connect this Brazilian network to AMPATH. Now, ANSP is
connected to AMPATH through a 45 Mbps fiber optic connection, provided in part
by telecommunications firm Global Crossing, and is peering with the highly
regarded Abilene research network. Services going through AMPATH to ANSP include
unicast and multicast peering, as well as engineering support, and NOC services,
provided through the Global Research NOC at Indiana University.
ANSP unites São Paulo's University networks, as well as
the Scientific and Technological Research Centers in the State of São Paulo.
The ANSP network is managed by the State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
It is the main Internet connection point of all the Institutions that belong to
the State of São Paulo Science and Technology System. The international traffic
of the ANSP network is encoded independently through a 155 Mbps fiber optic
connection. The ANSP Network also encompasses the PoP of the National Research
Network (RNP) in São Paulo.
Prof. Hartmut Glaser, ANSP's Network Coordinator, sees a
future of international collaboration and exploration. "Through this
connection to AMPATH, all of the institutions connected to ANSP will have new
opportunities to expand their cooperation with US universities and research
centers, offering these centers significant potential for new applications and
services. I expect that, because of this new connectivity, the partnership
between AMPATH and ANSP researchers will enhance the quality of our
relationships, and working together will result in new scientific
developments."
AMPATH, now supported in part by grants from the
National Science Foundation, began as a collaborative project between FIU and
Global Crossing. Using Global Crossing's terrestrial and submarine optical-fiber
network, AMPATH will interconnect the Research and Education (R&E) networks
in South and Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico to US and non-US R&E
networks via UCAID's Abilene network. Participants will also be able to utilize
the StarLight/STARTAP peering points led by the University of Illinois at
Chicago, with grant support from the National Science Foundation.
The AMPATH PoP currently consists of a GSR 12012 router
donated by Cisco Systems, a CBX-500 ATM switch donated by Lucent Technologies,
and a Juniper Networks M10 router. The Global NOC at Indiana University provides
network monitoring and back-up engineering services in coordination with FIU's
network engineering staff.
About FIU: FIU, Miami's public research
university, educates 33,000 students on campuses throughout South Florida and
Latin America. It is the only public urban university in Florida with both a Phi
Beta Kappa chapter and the Carnegie Foundation's top rating for research
universities. Over the past three years, its sponsored research program has been
the fastest growing of any research university in the state. FIU delivers
high-quality education and training, conducts and promotes research to enhance
Florida's role as a leader in telecommunications and information technology,
offers training necessary to fostering business development and workforce
preparedness and promotes technology transfer to enhance enabling technologies
for the telecommunications and information technology industries. More
information about FIU can be found at www.fiu.edu and www.ampath.fiu.edu.
About Global Crossing:
Global Crossing provides telecommunications solutions
over the world's first integrated global IP-based network, which reaches 27
countries and more than 200 major cities around the globe. Global Crossing
serves many of the world's largest corporations, providing a full range of
managed data and voice products and services. Global Crossing operates
throughout the Americas and Europe, and provides services in Asia through its
subsidiary, Asia Global Crossing (NYSE: AX).
On January 28, 2002, Global Crossing and certain of its
affiliates (excluding Asia Global Crossing and its subsidiaries) commenced
Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District
of New York and coordinated proceedings in the Supreme Court of Bermuda.
Please visit http://www.globalcrossing.com
or http://www.asiaglobalcrossing.com
for more information about Global Crossing and Asia Global Crossing.
About StarLight: StarLight(sm), the optical
STARTAP(sm) initiative, is an advanced optical infrastructure and proving ground
for network services optimized for high-performance applications. Operational
since summer 2001, StarLight is a 1GigE and 10GigE switch/router facility for
high-performance access to participating networks and will ultimately become a
true optical switching facility for wavelengths. StarLight is being developed by
the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at
Chicago (UIC), the International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR)
at Northwestern University, and the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at
Argonne National Laboratory, in partnership with Canada's CANARIE and Holland's
SURFnet. STARTAP and StarLight are made possible by major funding from the US
National Science Foundation to the University of Illinois at Chicago. STARTAP
and StarLight are service marks of the Board of Trustees of the University of
Illinois. See http://www.startap.net/starlight.
About Abilene: Abilene, developed in partnership
with Qwest Communications, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks and Indiana
University, is an Internet2 backbone network providing nationwide
high-performance networking capabilities for over 200 Internet2 universities in
all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. For more information
on Abilene please see http://www.internet2.edu/abilene
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