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Press Release:
FIU to Host Major Internet Workshop on
AMPATH Project, Sponsored by NSF
MIAMI, Fla. (Aug. 15, 2001) - Florida
International University is hosting a three-day workshop starting today -- Wed.,
Aug. 15 -- on the AMPATH Project, a high-speed research and education computer
network linking South and Central America, including Mexico and the Caribbean,
to Internet2. The workshop, which is being sponsored by a grant from the
National Science Foundation, is being held at FIU-Biscayne Bay's Kovens
Conference Center (3000 N.E. 151st St., North Miami). It is intended to identify
new potential areas of scientific collaboration between U.S. research interests
and others throughout the AMPATH service region.
More than 100 universities, corporations and organizations will be represented
at the Aug. 15-17 workshop, with participants coming from Argentina, Chile,
Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Canada and other countries.
Presenters from such organizations as the National Science Foundation, the U.S.
Dept. of Defense and NASA will discuss future AMPATH applications, Internet
traffic routing and international research collaboration. Cisco Systems is
offering an engineering workshop in conjunction with the event.
FIU and Global Crossing announced the creation
last year of the AmericasPATH or AMPATH project, which uses Global Crossing's
terrestrial and submarine optical-fiber network to connect service-region users
to Internet2 and Next Generation Internet networks
globally. Participating research centers have the opportunity to contribute to
research and development of applications for the advancement of Internet
technologies.
As its contribution to the AMPATH project, Global Crossing is donating a DS3
connection on its network to each participating country for a period of three
years. The donated DS3s connect the research and education networks of each
country to the AMPATH point-of-presence in Miami at the Network Access Point of
the Americas, which is owned and operated by Terremark Worldwide, Inc. The
implementation of the AMPATH project was aided earlier this year by new
donations from Cisco Systems (a GSR 12012 router) and Lucent Technologies (a CBX
ATM switch) to further the successful implementation of AMPATH.
FIU is one of America's leading public
research universities, with more than $42 million in annual, federally sponsored
research and more than $61 million in total yearly contracts and grants. A
recipient of the Carnegie Foundation's top ranking for research universities,
the school is home to major research centers in such areas as
telecommunications, engineering and environmental technology.
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