QUESTION
What is the status of the citywide data center network upgrade project?
1:49:16
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Chief Technology Officer Matthew Fraser confirms the citywide data center network upgrade project is ongoing and on track.
- The project focuses on connecting assets within the data center, such as servers and network security appliances.
- It is part of the foundational infrastructure management project.
- The effort is continuous, aiming to keep the city's network updated.
- Upgrading one component often necessitates upgrading others, maintaining a state of perpetual change.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:49:16
Can you provide the committee with an date on the city wide data center network upgrade upgrade project.
Matthew Fraser
1:49:27
Citywide data center upgrade runs?
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:49:29
Yeah.
1:49:29
Citywide data center network upgrade.
Matthew Fraser
1:49:32
Okay.
1:49:32
So I it's it's a different version.
1:49:35
So CityNet Assuming that is the wide area network, that's how we connect multiple sites together.
1:49:41
The data center network upgrade project is focused on how do we connect all of our assets that live in the data center itself.
1:49:47
So your server, your storage, anything that's your network security appliances, anything that's in the physical data center.
Alex Stein
1:49:53
Mhmm.
Matthew Fraser
1:49:54
Updating the core network that supports the distribution within the data center itself.
1:50:00
And that that project is a part of our FIM foundational infrastructure management project.
1:50:05
And like that that project is is on track, and it's it's ongoing.
1:50:11
And it when you look at network upgrades and programs like that, we we are in a state of perpetual change because as you upgrade some components, other components, they require upgrading.
1:50:24
So it's it's an ongoing effort to keep make sure the city's network is up to the latest and greatest.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:50:30
Okay.
1:50:31
Thank you.