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Terremark and FIU Sign Research and Development Agreement With Aim of 
Establishing Miami as Major
Hub for Regional Research and Education Network

Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (AMEX:TWW), a global leader in providing Internet 
infrastructure and
managed services to the telecommunications industry, today announced that 
Terremark's NAP of the
Americas will serve as the home of the AMPATH Network and South Florida's 
Internet2(R) GigaPoP.

AMPATH, a project developed by Florida International University (FIU) in 
collaboration with Global
Crossing, interconnects the research and education networks in South America, 
Central America, the
Caribbean, Mexico and other countries to U.S. and non-U.S. research and 
education networks via the
Internet2(R) Abilene network.

Internet2(R) is a consortium being led by more than 180 universities working 
in partnership with
industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications 
and technologies,
accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet.

Internet2(R) is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and 
government that fostered
today's Internet. Abilene is an advanced backbone network that supports the 
development and
deployment of the new applications being developed within the Internet2(R) 
community. Abilene
connects regional network aggregation points, called GigaPoPs, to support the 
work of Internet2(R)
universities as they develop advanced Internet applications. Abilene 
complements other
high-performance research networks.

The announcement is part of a Research and Development Agreement between 
Terremark and FIU to work
together, through FIU's Telecommunications and Information Technology 
Institute, on research and
development projects to create test beds for experimentation at the NAP of 
the 
Americas using the
AMPATH network to study current and emerging Internet and telecommunications 
technologies,
including but not limited to, IPv6, Quality of Service (QoS), multicast and 
optical switching.
These R&D projects will enable Terremark and FIU to study advanced network 
technologies prior to
their introduction into production networks.

"We are proud that the NAP of the Americas will be the home of the AMPATH 
Network and the South
Florida GigaPoP," said Manuel D. Medina, Chairman and CEO of Terremark. "We 
are particularly
excited to join forces with Florida International University to develop a 
program to connect
educators and students across the Americas and beyond, which will establish 
the NAP of the
Americas and Miami as one of the premier educational points for the 
development of applications
for the advancement of Internet technologies."

The NAP of the Americas will serve as a major connecting point where research 
and education
networks can peer with U.S.-and non-U.S.-based National Research Networks. 
Colocating AMPATH, a
point-of-presence, within the NAP of the Americas will establish Miami as a 
major connectivity
point for research and development for educational initiatives.

"With this agreement, the AMPATH and FIU partnership is positioned to become 
the leading
international technology initiative for higher learning throughout the 
Western 
Hemisphere," said
FIU President Modesto A. Maidique. "The NAP of the Americas is the ideal site 
to host a
pan-regional higher education initiative, which will enhance Miami's stature 
as a leading
high-tech learning center."

Terremark is the operator and owner of the NAP of the Americas, a 
TerreNAP(sm) 
Data Center that
will be a state-of-the-art facility providing interconnection between global 
carriers, ISPs and
others. The carrier-neutral NAP of the Americas is one of the most 
significant 
telecommunications
projects in the Western Hemisphere, as it will connect fiber networks in 
Latin 
America, Europe and
Africa to those in the U.S. and have a profound impact on Internet traffic 
flow once completed in
the second quarter of 2001. It is only the fifth Tier-1 NAP in the Western 
Hemisphere.

About Terremark Worldwide, Inc. Terremark Asia is a subsidiary of Terremark 
Worldwide Inc.
(AMEX:TWW). Terremark Worldwide, Inc. is a global leader in providing 
Internet 
infrastructure and
managed services, as well as a full range of real estate services. Terremark 
is headquartered at
2601 S. Bayshore Drive, 9th Floor, Miami, Florida USA, 305/856-3200, and has 
offices in several
other locations throughout the United States, Latin America and Asia. More 
information can be
found on Terremark Worldwide, Inc at http://www.terremark.com.

About NAP of the Americas The NAP of the Americas, a TerreNAP(sm) Data 
Center, 
is the fifth Tier-1
Network Access Point (NAP) in the world. TerreNAP(sm) Data Centers is a 
subsidiary of Terremark
Worldwide, Inc. NAP of the Americas is the first carrier neutral Tier-1 NAP 
and it is the first
one housed in a facility built specifically for a NAP. Located in Miami, 
Florida, the NAP of the
Americas will be a premier facility providing interconnection between global 
carriers, ISPs and
others as well as connecting fiber networks in Latin America, Europe and 
Africa to those in the
U.S. Terremark Worldwide is the owner and operator of the NAP of the 
Americas; 
Telcordia
Technologies will engineer it with its latest IP technology. For more 
information on NAP of the
Americas can be found on www.napoftheamericas.com.

About FIU FIU, recognized as one of the nation's best public research 
universities, educates some
32,000 students on campuses throughout South Florida and Latin America. Its 
Telecommunications and
Information Technology Institute delivers high-quality telecommunications and 
information
technology education and training, conducts and promotes research to enhance 
Florida's role as a
leader in telecommunications and information technology, offers training 
necessary to fostering
business development and workforce preparedness, and promotes technology 
transfer to enhance
enabling technologies of the telecommunications and information technology 
industries.  For more information about the AMPATH project, see: 
http://www.ampath.fiu.edu.  For more information about FIU, see: 
http://www.fiu.edu.

About Internet 2(R) Led by over 180 U.S. universities working with industry 
and government,
Internet 2 (R) is developing and deploying advanced network applications and 
technologies for
research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's 
Internet. Internet 2 (R)
recreates the partnership of academia, industry and government that helped 
foster today's Internet
in its infancy. For more information about Internet 2(R), see: 
http://www.internet2.edu.


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