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County IT consultant warns jail is vulnerable to single‑point failure; recommends fiber redundancy
Summary
Cabot Howell, the county's IT consultant, told commissioners a leased fiber/microwave link serving the jail failed during storms and recommended adding a dedicated dark‑fiber circuit or other redundancy; estimated cost was about $21,000 upfront and $1,200/month, prompting some commissioners to question the expenditure given the rarity of outages.
Cabot Howell, Haralson County's IT consultant, told the Board of Commissioners the county's jail operates on a network path that currently contains a single point of failure and that a recent storm caused an outage that left jail systems offline for roughly two days. Howell said the county's original configuration used a microwave link to the jail when the facility moved; since then, the county has leased fiber along the railroad via a third party (identified in testimony as Parker Fiber). He said an intermediate device on that…
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