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District technology leaders outline redundancy strategy, caution against full power/internet duplication costs
Summary
Indian Prairie CUSD 204 technology staff gave a spring update describing the district’s network topology, cloud migration, and options and costs for greater power and internet redundancy; presenters said fully redundant generators and separate fiber paths would be costly and may not be cost-effective for rare outages.
District technology leaders presented a spring update to the Indian Prairie CUSD 204 Board of Education on April 7, 2025 describing the district’s network setup, cloud migration of services and a cost-benefit analysis for increased power and internet redundancy.
Presenters — identified in the meeting as Rodney Mack, William Gray and Brian Grinstead — said about 80–90% of district services have moved to cloud-based platforms, making reliable internet and power the principal dependencies for daily operations. The district operates two 10-gig internet “pipes” and segments buildings so that half of the facilities use one pipe and half use the other; automatic failover is configured so that traffic reroutes in seconds if a link fails.
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