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Request to Approve a Resolution Authorizing the Town Manager to Enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and to Create Amendments as Needed between the Town of Carrboro and the Town of Chapel Hill for Fiber Optic Infrastructure Facilities Sharing and/or Exchange
PURPOSE: The purpose of the MOU and Amendments is to allow the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill to interconnect portions of their respective existing fiber optic cable plant to facilitate network path redundancy and diversity, access to high speed and low cost internet access through MCNC, facilitate interconnection of regional fiber networks for inter-municipality emergency services communications and many other benefits.
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DEPARTMENT: MO-IT
CONTACT INFORMATION: Andy Vogel, 919-918-7305
INFORMATION: The Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill jointly desire to formally recognize and maintain a mutually beneficial and collaborative environment surrounding the planning, engineering, deployment, documentation and maintenance of their respective fiber optic infrastructure resources.
The Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill each utilize significant fiber optic infrastructure assets to interconnect their respective facilities, buildings and other interests. The two Towns acknowledge that each entity would be able to enhance the scope, route diversity, redundancy and overall reliability of such connectivity through a structured and detailed process whereby the two Towns equitably, and by mutually beneficial means, share and/or exchange specific elements of their respective fiber cable plants. Therefore, it is the purpose of the MOU to establish the terms and conditions for the two Towns to equitably share and/or exchange defined elements of their respective (a.) fiber optic infrastructure systems, (b.) fiber optic infrastructure strategic planning, and (c.) fiber optic infrastructure engineering and administration expertise.
The initial term of the MOU is for five years and...
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