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Technology commission backs change order to add Meraki switches after DPW outages
Summary
Franklin Technology Commission recommended a TPx change order to add five Cisco Meraki switches to the city's fiber ring after repeated Department of Public Works outages revealed routing and failover problems. The commission recommended funding adjustments and will request a common council budget amendment.
The Franklin Technology Commission on Oct. 22 recommended a change order to the city's TPx WAN/firewall contract to add five Cisco Meraki switches to remote sites after multiple outages exposed a weakness in the fiber ring when the Department of Public Works (DPW) lost power.
The change order, presented by IT Director Jim Matoski, calls for new 24-port Meraki switches at five remote offices to enable better link aggregation and to resolve a spanning-tree blocking issue that currently forces traffic to route in only one direction when parts of the ring go offline. Matoski told commissioners the work is "a needed element" and that "it is absolutely essential to the city that we have reliable, fault tolerant, highly redundant Internet." The commission moved to recommend the change order and the motion carried.
Why it matters: The city's fiber WAN was built as a redundant ring and is the main route to state/education-only WISCNET and the Education and Community Center (ECC). During…
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