The City of Jacksonville, JEA, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, the Jacksonville Port Authority and the Sheriff’s Office, put onto the state’s research and education network alongside commodity internet.
Five organisations with five budgets and five sets of leadership sharing one high-capacity path is a governance problem wearing a network’s clothes.
Physical path diversity was built using infrastructure the city already owned: separate primary and backup fibre routes running over different bridge crossings on opposite structures, into a carrier facility, with an out-of-region backup path to Atlanta. Diversity that exists only on a carrier’s paper map tends to converge in a single conduit somewhere.
Outcome
A shared high-capacity path across five budgets and five sets of leadership, with diversity that was demonstrable rather than asserted.