ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala -- The Department of the Army, in partnership with the Defense Information Security Agency, is focusing efforts to provide a single, secure, standards-based network across the Department of Defense.
The 7th Signal Command and the 106th Signal Brigade will spearhead this effort at Anniston Army Depot beginning in the first quarter of 2015.
This modernization effort will increase network capacity, provide enterprise services and increase network operation and security.
Currently, our network core provides one gigabyte per second connectivity between nodes. The Network Modernization CONUS effort will increase network capacity to 10 Gbps.
Along with the local core bandwidth increase, access layer devices will be replaced with a standard hardware platform enabling increased port capacity which supports power over the Ethernet.
As employees have seen in previous years, the integration of information technology into our business practices is ever increasing.
The DoD recognizes this trend and plans to enhance security by providing zone-based security policies at the enterprise level. These zones will be managed and monitored by DISA.
How will this impact ANAD?
There will be periodic network interruptions in two phases.
Phase 1 will impact the core nodes. There will be a scheduled outage while these routers are replaced.
Phase 2 will replace the access layer devices. DOIM network staff and 106th Signal Brigade Soldiers will be in the work areas replacing switches. Please be patient with us as we upgrade our infrastructure.
DOIM will contact directors to schedule the network outages as the connections are upgraded.
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