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Norwalk signs five-year secondary internet contract to preserve network continuity
Summary
City IT recommended and the committee approved a five-year contract with Lightpath Technology Inc. to provide a physically separate secondary internet path routed to police headquarters to keep critical services online during primary outages.
Norwalk’s information-technology director told the Finance & Claims Committee on July 10 that the city will enter a five-year contract with Lightpath Technology Inc. to establish a physically separate secondary internet connection to improve network resilience for critical services.
Joyce Liu, Norwalk IT director, said the secondary path will terminate at 1 Monroe Street (police headquarters) and use an independent fiber route so that a failure in the primary service will not incapacitate core municipal systems. "It will be automatic," Liu said when asked about failover; both circuits are planned to remain active so traffic can flow if one path is disrupted.
The committee authorized the mayor to execute a five-year agreement not to exceed $26,400 annually (total not to exceed $132,000). Committee members said redundancy is important for public-safety continuity and voted unanimously to forward the authorization to the Common Council on July 22 for final approval.
Ending: The committee approved the Lightpath contract to secure a physically separate secondary internet route for municipal and public-safety operations.
