The City of Evansville and Vanderburgh County, IN through an agreement with AT&T Inc. will have the state’s largest city/county optical fiber-based network. The fiber-optic network as expected will be faster and enable more efficient communications and operations among fire, police, park, water, transportation, and other city facilities.
AT&T will upgrade the city and county’s wide-area network from its current copper composition to an advanced, cost-effective, optic fiber-based OPT-E-MAN network as per the agreement
AT&T OPT-E-MAN, the company’s fully managed switched metro Ethernet service will accelerate communications among all 46 city and county locations with data transfer rates ranging from 5 Mbps to 1 Gbps.
This system is designed to accommodate future growth and advanced technologies. The fiber-optic network will provide greater operational efficiency and communication among the various city departments and operations.
The city and county Information Technology Department worked with AT&T for more than a year to develop and design this fiber network. It will heighten disaster recovery capabilities by creating a backup off-site. AT&T will also provide around the clock monitoring of the network which enhances network reliability.
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