Julio Ibarra, principal investigator, has been with AMPATH since its creation in 2000. In 2012 Ibarra received his PhD from the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands.
Heidi Alvarez
Heidi Alvarez serves as co-principal investigator for AMPATH. In 2006 Alvarez received her PhD from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, in the Netherlands. She has held the position as Co-Pi for the AMPATH International Exchange Point since April, 2000. She is also Co-PI for the 2010 AmLight International Research Network Connections project for Latin America, Mexico and the Caribbean as well as for the AMPATH International Exchange Point in Miami.
AMPATH's resources are composed of multiple of organizations, including its two primary connections with Atlantic Wave and Southern Light. AMPATH's network configuration consists of four major parts; 1) Layer2 ether connections, up to 10 Gigabits per second, including Ethernet vlans mapped using Next-Generation SONET/SDH protocols 2) Packet Over SONET /Synchronous Date Hierarchy Asynchronous Transfer Mode Standard interface configuration includes support for jumbo frames.
One of AMPATH's first achievements was connecting with the Academic Network at São Paulo, the network of the State of São Paulo in Brazil. This connection included peering services with the Abilene Network. AMPATH along with Internet2 was able to create a new link between Gemini's twin, 8-meter telescopes, located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and on Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes.
2003
In 2003 AMPATH was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for more than $500,000 to assist in connecting the Internet2's Abilene Network with regional universities and educational institutions in the United States, Latin America, and parts of the Caribbean.
2005
In the winter of 2005 AMPATH was involved in a globally distributed project known as UltraLight. Funded by the National Science Foundation, UltraLight was a transcontinental network aimed at monitoring and managing grid-based data analysis and fair sharing on long-range networks.
“The high-energy physics community is conducting a new round of experiments to probe the fundamental nature of matter and space-time and to understand the composition and early history of the universe. These experiments face unprecedented engineering challenges due to the volume and complexity of their data and the need for collaboration among scientists around the world…To overcome this limitation, major high-energy physics centers in the United States have formed the UltraLight consortium…Transcontinental and intercontinental wavelengths in our partner projects TransLight, Netherlight, UKlight, AMPATH, and CA*Net4 will be used for network experiments on a part-time or scheduled basis.”
2007
As of 2007 AMPATH has been involved with the Atlantic Wave Peering Project that enables network exchange and peering services through a variety of locations and supports the Global Lambda Integrated Facility’s Open Lightpath Exchange model.
