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allow 2 types of traffic: unsecured access for the pub. Report of the lic to access the Internet, and secured for Town employees to access our network resources. Director of Information Technology Department Department Mission To provide 24 geographically dispersed depart- r' ments in Mashpee with consistent, cost effective,and To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and secure connectivity to all current and future informa ,^ Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: tion systems. To create an Information Systems infra- Let me start my Annual Report by expressing my structure that provides increased accessibility to infor- gratitude and thanks to my staff of one, Bruce Stello, mation for all citizens of the Town of Mashpee. for all his hard work and dedication to providing the best support possible to all employees of the Town of This includes telephony, local and wide area data Mashpee. We have accomplished much in the past 3 networks, e-mail and Internet access, network operat- ing systems, desktop operating systems, anti-virus years working together and I look forward to continu- protection,firewall protection, anti-spam and anti-spy- ing our progress for many years to come. May I also ware initiatives,backup and disaster recovery services, express my gratitude and thanks to the Mashpee Cable software licensing and maintenance, networked print- and Advanced Technology Advisory Board for their generous support in funding the hardware, software, ers and other related technology. wireless network infrastructure, and G.I.S. initiatives that we have implemented over the past 3 years to sta- Major Activities of the previous Year bilize, enhance, expand, and secure our network. • Provided data processing services to 24 town departments. The wireless network enhancements I would like • Upgraded MUNIS to version 2005 and to briefly explain are as follows: increased hard drive capacity to sustain growth. The addition of wireless backbone antennas at Implemented VLANS on the network to segre- K.C. Coombs School and the Mashpee High School, gate traffic over the Wireless Backbone,keep- which enable secure sharing of data between all 9 ing Public Access traffic separate from Town locations on the map pictured below. We also built a Employee traffic. complete redundant backup wireless backbone to Installed Access Points at the Fire Station and allow us to better utilize bandwidth between sites and Counsel on Aging, (we already had them at to enable 100%redundancy. Each site pictured below Town Hall and the Library). We reconfigured actually has 2 antennas running simultaneously to all Access Points to allow 2 types of traffic, increase data throughput by sharing bandwidth,to seg- unsecured access for the public to access the regate traffic where applicable, and to provide backup Internet, and secured for Town employees to capabilities in case of failure. Finally, we installed access our network resources. Anyone with a . wireless access points at the Fire Dept and the Counsel wireless enabled PDA or Laptop can access on Aging building,(we already had them at Town Hall either the Internet or Town applications based and the Library). We reconfigured all Access Points to on who they are, employee or Resident. qqq Waler Ta r vP.mim 5.9GFlx i w-* 30MEOs w r anepo� rR 1 f wma> Dpw � M ' NN,9.x W1 WJI VUM vW Wticlaeai ••5 FYewHlbr> K.C.CoomJs c- High School Town of Mashpee Wireless Network 5.8 GHz hared30Mbp Town Hall M mum i a � .Police Dept LibraryF R.Depl CO 28 ea