9-1-1 director urges server financing and backup communications after storm
Dispatch officials proposed financing replacement servers and adding cellular/satellite backups to avoid a single fiber failure disrupting county dispatch; staff suggested shifting some planned server payments to fund communications redundancy this year.
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The county’s 9-1-1/dispatch leadership told council the center’s Spillman server cluster is nearing end-of-life and that hardware support has lapsed for some nodes. The director recommended financing to replace the remaining nodes over multi-year payments rather than paying large one-time capital bills, and proposed adding a layered backup for communications (fiber, cellular and low-band satellite) to reduce single-point failures.
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