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Case Study | Kapiti Coast District Council Kapiti Coast District Council, in New Zealand, selects Allied Telesis to provide a powerful protected network with automatic failover, for their civil defense Emergency Operations Centre.
Civil Defense operation communication, services and coordination would still continue. Allied Telesis was chosen for their new network solution, providing the redundancy and load failover required for the this civil defense operation.
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KCDC's normal day-to-day business in an efficient, cost effective manner. Therefore, the proposed design had to balance the required redundancy carefully with the associated cost, in order to arrive at a scalable solution. Allied Telesis Case Study: Kapiti Coast Civil Defense Page 3...
8848 AR410 Page 4 Allied Telesis Case Study: Kapiti Coast Civil Defense This location was chosen for the central point of the wireless network because of its physical location - on top of a hill, allowing line of sight wireless to all other council offices, from the Raumati main office in the south to the Otaki office/library in the north.
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At the KCDC's Operations Depot in Fytfield Place, and at their main site in Rimu Rd, AT-8948 switches were chosen for their OSPF routemap capabilities, to support a network design allowing for automatic failover of both voice and data traffic in the event of either network failing. A multi-Iayer IPv4 and IPv6 Switch, the AT-8948 offers performance, flexibility, and reliability.