Monday, May 17, 2010

Governing Board Adopts New System Name

At the May Governing Board meeting, the system members adopted a new official name for the council of governments: the Central Ohio Interoperable Radio System (COIRS).

The members wanted an official name that represented the regional collaboration along with the primary mission of the system - interoperability. All COG business will be conducted under the new COIRS name effective immediately.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

System Event - Connectivity

Today at approximately 10:56hrs, the Dub/Wor simulcast lost connectivity with the main controller in Delaware causing the system to go into SITE TRUNKING and the dispatch consoles to lose connection. In checking the system, technicians found there was a network interruption on the OARNet portion of the connection. OARNet network operations has been notified and is investigating the problem. The connection was restored at 11:09hrs. 

During the interruption, back up plans were implemented successfully. 

A full outage report will be provided as soon as it is available.