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Florida International University AMPATH

AMPATH: Network of the Americas

Heidi L. Alvarez

[email protected]

Grid Workshop February 7-8

Rio de Janeiro,Brazil

mailto:[email protected]


What is AMPATH?

• AMPATH is a project led by FIU, in collaboration with Global Crossing (GC), to interconnect the R&E networks in South and Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico to US and non-US R&E networks via Internet2's Abilene network


What is AMPATH?• The AMPATH Network is built upon Global

Crossing’s terrestrial and submarine optical-fiber networks

• But AMPATH is more than a Network for the Americas…

Fifth Tier-1 NAPStrategically located to serve Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern Europe and AfricaClose to major carrier POPs and 7 worldwide undersea cable landings


International Cable Landings


What is AMPATH?

• 10 DS3s from Global Crossing

• Cisco GSR 12012

• Lucent CBX 500 ATM switch

• Juniper M10 router

• Collocation in the NAP of the Americas

• Shared OC3 to Abilene with the South Florida GigaPOP


AMPATH Service AreaAMPATH Service Area

• Argentina• Brazil• Chile• Colombia• Costa Rica • Mexico• Panama• Peru• Puerto Rico • US Virgin

Islands• Venezuela

ParticipatingCountry W Miami

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ParticipatingCountry Y

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STAR TAP

Cisco GSR 12012

AMPATH AMPATH NetworkNetwork

AMPATHAMPATHPOPPOP

OC3 OC3 LucentCBX-500

JuniperM10

OC12 ATMNAP Peering

Fabric1000Mbps


AMPATH NetworkAMPATH Network• Flexible and Scaleable• SDH Infrastructure:

Avoids ATM overheadBenefits Participant NRNs not using ATM

• ATM infrastructure:PVCs, PVPsDirect peering between Participants

• Optical infrastructure supporting wavelenghts• Direct layer 2 or layer 3 connectivity to other

countries connected to the AMPATH network.


St. Croix

Venezuela

Brazil

ArgentinaChile

Peru

Colombia

Panama

Mexico

Puerto Rico

REUNARETINA

RNP

REACCIUN

US VI

AMPATH

CINTEL

RCP

SENACYT

CUDI

UPR NAP Of TheAmericas

AbileneStarLight

STAR TAP

AMPATH NetworkAMPATH Network

Service Fiber Pairs Protection Fiber Pairs

Global Crossing’s

MAC/SAC/PAC

Global Crossing’s

MAC/SAC/PACANSP

RNP

Aricebo

Gemini


AMPATH Engineering Support• FIU Network Engineers• Global NOC

[email protected]

StarLight Optical Network Connections

Vancouver

Seattle

Portland

San Francisco

Los Angeles

San Diego(SDSC)

NCSA

Chicago NYC

SURFnet, CERN

CA*net4

Asia-Pacific

Asia-Pacific

AMPATH

PSC

Atlanta

IU

U Wisconsin

DTF 40Gb

CA*net4


Project Time Line

Aug 2001

Connect ArgentinaComplete AMPATH Workshop Report

Participate in HPIIS measurement workshop

Sept 2001

Dec 2001 Connect AMPATH to StarLight NSF StarLight Support Proposal for the LISHEP Grid Workshop

Connect ANSP Sao Paulo – DONE!Connect Gemini South Observatory, Chile “We’re Testing Now!”Move AMPATH to NAP Of The Americas – Some active equipment installed

Connect Brazil and Puerto RicoConduct workshop at FIU to identify science applications for collaboration in AMPATH Service Area

Feb 2002

March 2002 Connect Venezuela. Identify funding a consortium activities to makethe AMPATH / StarLight connection persistent in support of e-science


Project Time Line

Work with Project Participants to exceed bandwidth utilizationDevelop value added services to support next generation networks and research (e-science, global distributed systems, data grids)

July 2002 Connect Peru, Colombia, USVI

Participate in iGrid 2002 in Amsterdam with an AMPATH Service Area country application demonstration – BRAZIL?

Connect remaining countries in the AMPATH Service Area

September 2002

Ongoing Activity

December 2002

First Int’l AMPATH Conference: Valdivia Chile April 10 – 12 with sponsorship from the US National Science Foundation. Please join us!

April 2002


Request for Application InformationRequest for Application Information• Request first issued

April 2001 • Workshop proposal

submitted to the NSF’s CISE/ANIR Division awarded proposal for the AMPATH Workshop in August, 2001


Application Information ResultsApplication Information Results

• To date, 40 application information requests have been documented

• Requests cover a diverse field of studyApplication Distribution

13%

24%

8%5%17%

15%

18%Biology

Math/Physical Sciences

Engineering

Geosciences

Computer Science

Education

Other



• Having an advanced networking infrastructure for research & education would benefit research institutions in:

- Argentina -Australia - Austria - Brazil

- Canada - Chile - Colombia - Korea

- Mexico - Panama - Puerto Rico - Peru

- Singapore - Spain - US - Venezuela

- West Indies

And the list goes on…



• Bandwidth requirements range from 8 Mbps today to a projected 2.4 to 10 Gbps over the next 3 – 5 years.

• The average requirement today is between 45 and 155 Mbps.


HEP Data Grids, the LHC and Global Networks

Contact:

• Harvey B. Newman• California Institute

of Technology• [email protected]

ch.edu


A Virtual Laboratory: NASA Astrobiology Institute, NASA Ames Research Center

Contact:

Hector D'Antoni

NASA Ames Research Center

[email protected]


Remote Sensing Research and Digital Archives at the University of Puerto Rico

Contact: Roy [email protected]’s Tropical Center

for Earth and Space Studies (TCESS) University of Puerto Rico.

Fernando [email protected] URL: http://sil.uprm.edu/


TerraFly: NASA Regional Applications Center

Contact: Naphtali RisheFlorida International

[email protected] Collaborators: US Geological SurveyNASANational Science FoundationIBMURL: http://TerraFly.fiu.edu


Use Of Metadata In Cross Language Information Retrieval For Multinational Counterdrug Agencies

Contacts: Georgia Institute of TechnologyLaura Lucía Burkhart

[email protected] Jennie Lincoln

[email protected]:US Southern CommandJIATF-ECoast GuardCustomsDEAONDCP Department of State/INL


Infrastructure Enabling Potential Areas of Collaboration Between the International Space Station and the Americas

Contact:Bob BradfordNASA/Marshall Space Flight CenterFlight Projects [email protected] 256-544-2843 URL:

http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWMSFC/station.html

and http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html


Instituto Nacional de Pequisas EspaciaisSao Paolo, Brazil

Contact:Andy Germain

[email protected] Jose Bacellar

HSB Project INPE [email protected]

URL: http://corn.eos.nasa.gov/performance/Net_Health/files/INPE-IDN.html

and http://corn.eos.nasa.gov/performance/Net_Health/files/INPE-HSB.html


More Observatory Opportunities

• In addition to Gemini and Arecibo, AmPATH can provide connectivity for other US funded projects in the Service Area. For example:– Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)

Project—Chile– The Inter-American Institute for Global

Change Research—Brazil– Yale Southern Observatory—Argentina


NGIX in Miami?

• AMPATH is seeking connectivity to the US Federal networks:– NREN, NISN, Esnet, DREN– Universities and research organizations

using AMPATH are very interested in connectivity to the US Federal networks

• US federal agency projects require network connectivity to South American countries


NSF 0123388 Award FIU AMPATH Workshop to Identify Areas of Scientific Collaboration between the US and the AMPATH Service Area, August 15 – 17, 2001

AmericasPATH (AMPATH)

Computational Science and Engineering Applications

http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/APPLICATIONS/Appendix A.htm

Tell us about your applications. Complete the Request for Application Information at: http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/application_info_req.htm


• What Can You Do with a 10Gbps Network? We hereby challenge the international research community to demonstrate applications that benefit from huge amounts of bandwidth!

• How will you use a 2.5Gbps (10Gbps? 40Gbps?) global network? How will you change your application codes?

• How will you expand the complexity of the problem you are solving?

• We welcome your participation in iGrid 2002, to showcase novel techniques for problem solving enabled by newly affordable global wavelengths.

• iGrid 2002 is soliciting demonstrations that showcase both technological innovations and application advancements requiring high-end optical networks.

• AMPATH wants you !• www.startap.net/igrid2002/


Scientists Using AMPATHScientists Using AMPATH

• US scientists conducting high-quality science in the AMPATH Service Area

• Latin American scientists who are recognized research leaders

• Professionals from National Research Networks that support high-performance network-dependent applications for science, research and education


Scientists Talking About Using AMPATHScientists Talking About Using AMPATH

Miami Workshop, August 15, 2001

Jim Kennedy (Gemini), Tom Greene (NSF) and Julio Ibarra (Director of AMPATH)

Richard Crutcher (NSCA), Tom Troland (UKY)

Naphtali Rishe (Terrefly- FIU)

Surredra Saxena (FIU) and Armando Fernández Guillermet (Centro Atómico Bariloche-Instituto Balseiro, Argentina)


Goals• Fully utilize the capacity of

the donated DS3s:– Science and education

applications– Partnerships

• Activities– Optical wavelengths– Optical routing– IPv6– Multicast– QoS– Access Grid– MPLS tunnels– Wireless to wired

networks


GoalsStrengthen weak links:

– Shared OC3 to Abilene will not scale to support 10 DS3s• Planned upgrade to an OC12 this year

– Access to the US Federal Research and Education Networks• Attract the US Federal Networks to Miami

– Fund a persistent link to StarLight


Goals• Position AMPATH as a future lambda

connect point directly linking optical networks in the AMPATH Service Area to each other, to StarLight, and beyond

• Provide value added services in Miami at FIU and the NAP of the Americas– Global Digital Electronic Collaborative

(GloDEC) Learning Network (NSF CISE-MII Proposal Pending)

– Digital Libraries– Data Servers– Disaster Recovery Facilities– Network Security Monitoring


AMPATH Project SponsorsAMPATH Project Sponsors

• The National Science FoundationAdvanced Network Infrastructure and Research– Aubrey Bush– Thomas Green– Donald “Chip” Cox

• Florida International University• Global Crossing• Terremark Worldwide, Inc.• Cisco Systems• Juniper Networks


AMPATH: Network of the Americas

Thank you !!!LISHEP GRID WORKSHOP

www.ampath.fiu.edu [email protected]

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