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Subject: AMPATH Connects REUNA to Internet2
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:40:40 -0400
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The activation of the AMPATH PoP in Miami, Florida on June 19, 2001, marks a
milestone in the AMPATH project that has been planned for over a year. The
AMPATH network is now connected to Internet2's Abilene network. REUNA, the
National Research Network of Chile and the first participant in the AMPATH
project, is connected to AMPATH and peering with Abilene.  Services going
through AMPATH to REUNA include unicast and multicast peering.
On October 16, 2000 REUNA and Florida International University (FIU) signed
a Memorandum of Understanding to connect Chile to the AmericasPATH (AMPATH)
project.  AMPATH is 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 (the Service Area) to US and
non-US R&E networks via Internet2's Abilene network and the STAR TAP.
Chile has a small, but very active scientific community that has placed a
priority on integrating into the worldwide scientific community by
electronic means, according to REUNA (Red Universitaria Nacional) executive
director Florencio Utreras. REUNA  is a private non-profit corporation
formed by nineteen universities and the National Commission of Scientific
and Technological Investigation (CONICYT). Florida International University
welcomes REUNA to the AMPATH project.
The AMPATH PoP will move to its home in Terremark's NAP of the Americas
later this year.  Terremark is the owner and operator of the NAP of the
Americas, the 5th tier-one NAP in the United States, located in downtown
Miami.  The move will be done in coordination with Global Crossing, the
carrier that donated 10 DS3s (45 Mbps) of bandwidth on their submarine and
terrestrial network to enable the AMPATH project.  One of those DS3s is
being used by REUNA.
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.
http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/news_AMPATH_REUNA_Operational.htm

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