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First High-Performance Internet Link Between North and South America for
Research & Education Established

Santiago, Chile--September 12, 2000--The first high-performance Internet
link between North and South America dedicated to research and education was
inaugurated today at a ceremony in Santiago, Chile. REUNA in Chile and
Internet2(R) in the United States have established a link that connects
their respective countries' high-performance research and education
networks.

Attended by nearly 300 leaders from the research and education community in
Chile, the ceremony included a speech by President Ricardo Lagos of Chile as
well as a live video presentation from the United States by Douglas Van
Houweling, President and CEO leading Internet2 that used the new network
link.

This new connection will help enable collaboration among researchers and
educators at universities in the two countries, including access to Gemini
South, a new advanced telescope now being built in Chile through an
international collaboration. The Gemini project consists of twin telescopes
in both hemispheres that together will provide unprecedented coverage of the
Northern and Southern skies. High-performance network links are critical to
the observatories’ joint operation.

About REUNA
The National University Network is a non-profit consortium of 19 leading
Chilean universities plus the National Commission for Science and
Technology. Its mission is the creation and development of networks and
services in IT aimed at supporting participation in the Information Society.
Reuna introduced Internet in Chile in 1992. Reuna´s high-speed network,
REUNA2, is an ATM network of 155 Mbps. across the country. For more
information see: http://www.reuna.cl

About Internet2®
Internet2® is a consortium of leading US universities working in partnership
with industry and government to accelerate the creation of tomorrow's
Internet. Internet2 is recreating the partnership among academia, industry
and government that fostered today/s Internet in its infancy. For more
information, see: http://www.internet2.edu/

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MEGACONFERENCE II TO HOLD WORLD'S FIRST TOTALLY VIRTUAL INTERNET CONFERENCE
TRACK

Virtual Panels and Speakers to Present at Fall 2000 Internet2 Member Meeting

MegaConference II will use Internet videoconferencing technology to connect
sites around the world for the world's first totally virtual conference
track at the Fall 2000 Internet2 Member Meeting on 31 October in Atlanta,
Georgia.  MegaConference I, held in conjunction with the Internet2 Member
Meeting in October 1999, joined over 60 organizations around the world in a
less-structured demonstration of similar videoconferencing technology.

Internet2 Member Meeting participants will attend the virtual track exactly
like other parallel tracks, with the only difference being that all
speakers, panelists and chairs will join the meeting from around the world.
In addition, a large virtual audience is expected to join the in-person
audience in the meeting room in Atlanta. The entire track, including breaks
between formal sessions, will be totally interactive so that audience
members anywhere in the world can ask questions of any speaker and speakers
may have discussions among themselves at any time.

The day-long conference track will use Internet-based H.323
videoconferencing technology and presenters will be people who use H.323
video technology today as part of education or research. This conference
track is paving the way for future conferences to use Internet
technology--not travel--to bring together speakers, panels and audiences
around the world.

To be part of the audience or apply to present as part of the virtual
conference track, register via the MegaConference Web site at:
http://www.mega-net.net/megaconference/about.htm

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Guillermo Jofré, chief financial officer
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IMPSAT Fiber Networks, Inc.
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IMPSAT Becomes First Latin American Carrier for STAR TAP International 
Exchange

(September 20, 2000  Buenos Aires, Argentina)--IMPSAT Fiber Networks, Inc. 
(“IMPSAT” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:IMPT), a leading provider of broadband 
data transmission and private telecommunications services in Latin America 
with operations in the United States, today announced that STAR TAP 
(Science, Technology, And Research Transit Access Point), has designated 
IMPSAT as a “Distributed STAR TAP” provider, after its remarkable 
achievement of directly connecting the first Latin American institution 
(REUNA, Chilean National Universities Network) to STAR TAP’s Chicago-based 
location.

STAR TAP is the premier global exchange point for advanced international 
networking; it is managed by the University of Illinois at Chicago and 
operated by Ameritech Advanced Data Services (AADS) in Chicago, Illinois. 
With this new status and its facilities in the United States, IMPSAT can 
now offer Research and Educational (R&E) institutions in Latin American 
access to STAR TAP, enabling them to peer with other advanced networks from 
Canada, Asia, Europe and Russia, as well as the American Next-Generation 
Internet (NGI) and Internet2 networks.

Currently, there are three carriers with the status of Distributed STAR TAP 
provider worldwide, and IMPSAT is the first Latin American carrier to offer 
interconnection services to the AADS Network Access Point (NAP) in Chicago.

STAR TAP’s National Research Network partners are: CA*net3 (Canada), CERN 
(European Laboratory for Particle Physics), CERNET (China), IUCC (Israel), 
MIRnet (Russia), NORDUnet (Nordic countries), SURFnet (The Netherlands), 
RENATER2 (France), SingAREN (Singapore), APAN (Asia-Pacific), and TANet2 
(Taiwan). In the U.S., both UCAID/ Internet2 Abilene connect, as well as 
U.S. NGI networks, which include: vBNS (NSF), ESnet (Dept. of Energy), DREN 
(Dept. of Defense), and NREN/NISN (NASA), are connected to STAR TAP.

Through IMPSAT, Latin American universities and research centers will 
benefit from communicating with leading research institutions worldwide at 
significantly higher transmission speeds, thus allowing for enhancing 
enhanced knowledge sharing and scientific collaboration.

Ricardo Verdaguer, IMPSAT’s chief executive officer, stated, “Since we 
signed a contract with REUNA to provide connectivity to STAR TAP one month 
ago, we have worked extensively in developing the quality standards that 
would guarantee the service required. Today, STAR TAP confirms the success 
of those efforts and, through IMPSAT, Latin America can now enjoy the 
benefits of global research interconnection. We are very proud of this 
major accomplishment in our race to provide world-class Internet access to 
the region”.

“We welcome IMPSAT’s commitment to provide providing a Distributed STAR TAP 
service. Our goal is to make it easier and more cost-effective for Latin 
American advanced research networks to connect to the STAR TAP 
infrastructure in Chicago, facilitating collaboration with American 
scientists,” said Tom DeFanti, STAR TAP Principal Investigator.

IMPSAT Fiber Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of Internet and private 
network integrated data and voice telecommunications services in Latin 
America. IMPSAT is building an extensive pan-Latin American high-capacity 
broadband network using advanced technologies, including IP/ATM switching, 
DWDM, and non-zero dispersion fiber optics; the Company is also developing 
a strategy to build state-of-the-art data centers in the Region. IMPSAT 
provides services to more than 2,100 national and multinational companies, 
government entities and wholesale services to carriers, ISPs and other 
service providers throughout the region. The Company currently has 
operations in Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, the 
United States, Chile and Peru.

STAR TAP, Science, Technology, And Research Transit Access Point, is a 
persistent infrastructure, whose aim is to facilitate the long-term 
interconnection and interoperability of advanced international networking 
in support of applications, performance measuring, and technology 
evaluations. STAR TAP is made possible by major funding from the National 
Science Foundation, awards ANI-9712283 and ANI-9980480, to the University 
of Illinois at Chicago. For more information, see http://www.startap.net.

STAR TAP and Distributed STAR TAP are service marks of the Board of 
Trustees of the University of Illinois.


Statements made in this press release that state IMPSAT's intentions, 
beliefs, expectations, or predictions for the future are forward-looking 
statements.  It is important to note that the company's actual results 
could differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking 
statements.  Information concerning factors that could cause actual results 
to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements is 
contained in the company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange 
Commission (SEC).  Copies of these filings may be obtained by contacting 
IMPSAT or the SEC.

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University of Illinois at Chicago Electronic Visualization Laboratory (M/C 
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Chile and China Now Talking to U.S. Universities, Scientific Centers 
Through STAR TAP


Within the span of one week, STAR TAP engineers hooked-up Chile's REUNA and 
China's CERNET research and education networks to the universal exchange 
point STAR TAP, providing the two countries access to over 100 U.S. 
universities and national laboratories, and most of the world's premier 
networks.

The Science, Technology, And Research Transit Access Point, or STAR TAP, is 
a proving ground for long-term interconnection and interoperability of 
advanced international networking. Launched in 1997, it provides a 
universal peering point in the U.S. where international networks have 
formal agreements to exchange data traffic with the National Science 
Foundation's vBNS and other advanced networks, such as Internet2's Abilene, 
and those of the U.S. Dept. of Energy, U.S. Dept. of Defense and NASA.

For China, the connection enhances the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese 
Academy of Science's ability to collaborate on Bio-Mirror, a worldwide 
project that provides high-speed access to DNA/protein biological sequence 
data banks. For Chile, as partners in the multi-national Gemini project to 
build twin astronomical observatories atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea and Chile's 
Cerro Pachon, astronomers will be able to rapidly exchange observatory data 
with their worldwide colleagues.

"Chile has a small, but very active scientific community," said REUNA 
executive director Florencio Utreras. "For a country like ours, being 
integrated into the scientific community by electronic means is a must. Our 
scientific capacity depends upon our links to the world, without which 
there is no critical mass for any scientific project. We certainly view our 
connection to STAR TAP as an important point in the development of a 
scientific infrastructure."

CERNET is the largest academic Internet backbone in China, connecting over 
700 universities in 130 cities. "Connecting to STAR TAP is China's first 
step in participating in the research and development of the 
next-generation Internet," said Xing Li, CERNET networking engineer.

The addition of China and Chile bring the number of international research 
networks peering at STAR TAP to twelve. Other peers are CA*net3 (Canada), 
CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics), IUCC (Israel's 
Inter-University Computation Center), MIRnet (Russia), NORDUnet (Nordic 
countries), SURFnet (The Netherlands), RENATER2 (France), SingAREN 
(Singapore), APAN (Asia-Pacific), and TANet2 (Taiwan).

STAR TAP is managed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the 
University of Illinois at Chicago, aided by the Math and Computer Science 
Division of Argonne National Laboratory, and it is operated Ameritech 
Advanced Data Services (AADS).

STAR TAP is made possible by major funding from the NSF, awards ANI-9712283 
and ANI-9980480, to the University of Illinois at Chicago, For more 
information, see http://www.startap.net and http://www.evl.uic.edu. STAR 
TAP is a service mark of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

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1.  GPN Research News Pages
2.  GPN Research Collaboration Interest Group
3.  GPN Discussion Forums
4.  GPN Position Announcements
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1.  GPN Research News Pages

The first "installment" of the Great Plains Network Research News pages are
located off the main GPN page at

http://www.greatplains.net/applications/collaboration/

The pages are designed to provide information about research projects,
funding opportunities, expertise, tools and techniques, and so forth to
members of the Great Plains Network gigapop and to the broader Internet2
community.  Please send corrections, news, ideas, and suggestions for
improving this area.
___________________________________________

2.  GPN Research Collaboration Interest Group

The Great Plains Network has formed a Research Collaboration Interest Group,
with a monthly conference to update members of the group on what's been
tried, what works, and so forth.  Please notify Greg Monaco if you would
like to be notified of this meeting or have an idea for starting an interest
group around another topic (e.g., Access Grid Technology).
___________________________________________

3.  GPN Discussion Forums

The Great Plains Network has created a series of Discussion forums,
including a forum on Research Collaboration.  These forums may be reached
from the GPN Research News Home page:
http://www.greatplains.net/applications/collaboration/

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4.  GPN Position Announcements

A new Discussion forum has been added for Position Announcements.  If you
are interested in current position announcements or have a vacancy you wish
to announce, please visit the GPN  Discussion Forums located off the GPN
Research News Home Page:
http://www.greatplains.net/applications/collaboration/


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Greg Monaco, Ph.D., Research Collaboration Coordinator
THE GREAT PLAINS NETWORK
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