Widespread 911 outage across Michigan spurs $6 million network ‘resilience’ upgrade
UPPER PENINSULA -- A Marquette-based company is investing in a $6 million network redesign after an equipment failure caused a widespread 911 outage for Michigan dispatch centers. Peninsula Fiber Network on Friday, Jan. 13, issued a statement saying an error in the company’s optical transport network caused the disruption. Peninsula Fiber leaders now say they’re working to make their network more resilient. “We take our mission-critical role in delivering consistent and reliable service to Michigan’s 911 operators very seriously and build multiple redundancies into our network. The work involves installing new optical transport network equipment intended to “improve the resilience” of the 911 system.
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