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Read more about the NAP at Red Herring "Gateway to the Americas" |
Terremark's NAP of the Americas to Serve as Home of FIU's
AMPATH Network and South Florida's Internet2 GigaPoP
Dec. 20, 2000 Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (AMEX:TWW), a global leader in providing Internet infrastructure and managed services to the telecommunications industry, today announced that Terremark's NAP of the Americas will serve as the home of the AMPATH Network and South Florida's Internet2® GigaPoP. AMPATH, a project developed by Florida International
University (FIU) in collaboration with Global Crossing, interconnects the
research and education networks in South America, Central America, the
Caribbean, Mexico and other countries to U.S. and non-U.S. research and
education networks via the Internet2® Abilene network. Internet2® is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and government that fostered today's Internet. Abilene is an advanced backbone network that supports the development and deployment of the new applications being developed within the Internet2® community. Abilene connects regional network aggregation points, called GigaPoPs, to support the work of Internet2® universities as they develop advanced Internet applications. Abilene complements other high-performance research networks. The announcement is part of a Research and Development Agreement between Terremark and FIU to work together, through FIU's Telecommunications and Information Technology Institute, on research and development projects to create test beds for experimentation at the NAP of the Americas using the AMPATH network to study current and emerging Internet and telecommunications technologies, including but not limited to, IPv6, Quality of Service (QoS), multicast and optical switching. These R&D projects will enable Terremark and FIU to
study advanced network technologies prior to their introduction into
production networks. The NAP of the Americas will serve as a major connecting point where research and education networks can peer with U.S.-and non-U.S.-based National Research Networks. Colocating AMPATH, a point-of-presence, within the NAP of the Americas will establish Miami as a major connectivity point for research and development for educational initiatives. "With this agreement, the AMPATH and FIU partnership is positioned to become the leading international technology initiative for higher learning throughout the Western Hemisphere," said FIU President Modesto A. Maidique. "The NAP of the Americas is the ideal site to host a pan-regional higher education initiative, which will enhance Miami's stature as a leading high-tech learning center." Terremark is the operator and owner of the NAP of the Americas, a TerreNAP(sm) Data Center that will be a state-of-the-art facility providing interconnection between global carriers, ISPs and others. The carrier-neutral NAP of the Americas is one of the most significant telecommunications projects in the Western Hemisphere, as it will connect fiber networks in Latin America, Europe and Africa to those in the U.S. and have a profound impact on Internet traffic flow once completed in the second quarter of 2001. It is only the fifth Tier-1 NAP in the Western Hemisphere. About Terremark Worldwide, Inc. Terremark Asia is
a subsidiary of Terremark Worldwide Inc. About NAP of the Americas The NAP of the
Americas, a TerreNAP(sm) Data Center, is the fifth Tier-1 Network Access
Point (NAP) in the world. TerreNAP(sm) Data Centers is a subsidiary of
Terremark Worldwide, Inc. NAP of the Americas is the first carrier neutral
Tier-1 NAP and it is the first one housed in a facility built specifically
for a NAP. Located in Miami, Florida, the NAP of the Americas will be a
premier facility providing interconnection between global carriers, ISPs
and others as well as connecting fiber networks in Latin America, Europe
and Africa to those in the U.S. Terremark Worldwide is the owner and
operator of the NAP of the Americas; About FIU FIU, recognized as one of the nation's best public research universities, educates some 32,000 students on campuses throughout South Florida and Latin America. Its Telecommunications and Information Technology Institute delivers high-quality telecommunications and information technology 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 of the telecommunications and information technology industries. More information about FIU can be found at www.fiu.edu and www.ampath.fiu.edu . About Internet 2® Led by over 180 U.S. universities working with industry and government, Internet 2 ® is developing and deploying advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet 2 ® recreates the partnership of academia, industry and government that helped foster today's Internet in its infancy. For more information about Internet 2®, see: http://www.internet2.edu. This press release contains "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties or other factors which may cause actual
results, performance or achievements of the Companies involved to be
materially different from any future results,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, without
limitation, relationships with the Companies' partners,
political instability in countries in which the Companies do business, the
Companies' ability to obtain proper funding for their business plan,
decline in demand for the Companies' services or products, the effect of
general economic conditions generally, factors affecting real estate
development or telecommunications and other risks, uncertainties detailed
from time to time in the Companies' Securities and Exchange Commission
filings and the Companies' ability to reach definitive binding agreement
and work together on a long term basis. URL: http://www.businesswire.com
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