Governing Board Meeting

The next meeting of the COIRS Governing Board is set for Friday January 21st at 9:30am at Worthington PD. CLICK HERE for a copy of the meeting agenda.

For more information about the meeting, or to submit an item for the agenda, please contact Jay Somerville.

Recent Outages Diagnosed

The system outages that occurred on 12/15, 12/30 and 01/06 were caused by connectivity interruptions on the OarNET network. OarNET is the connectivity provider between the Dub/Wor side of the system and the master site located in Delaware. On each of the three nights, OarNET engineers conducted upgrades to the network that required the switches to be rebooted, causing the 8 to 9 minute outages.

OarNET routinely notified users in advance of this work, but these notices were not specifically going to the COIRS representative, but instead to agency IT employees. OarNET apologized repeatedly for the interruption and has taken steps to ensure COIRS is notified before any future outages.

Site Trunking Dub/Wor System

At approximately 12:25 this morning, the Dub/Wor simulcast zone went into site trunking causing a loss of console connection at both the Dublin and Worthington communications centers. The outage lasted approximately 8 minutes.

System managers are again following up on the outage, which appears to be T1 interruption between the Avery Road site and the Dublin Justice Center. Motorola has been engaged to help track the outages and determine if there is some 

The system is back in full operation.