Senior FBI officials today pointed to the recently completed Trilogy network and their progress in creating a data warehouse as the leading projects in their IT overhaul. Wilson Lowery, executive assistant director for administration, said the March 28 deployment of the first phase of the Trilogy project at 591 sites included fielding 22,000 workstations, 2,612 switches and routers, 622 Ethernet LANs and 291 servers at FBI locations worldwide. The Trilogy network relies on a four-tier infrastructure with redundant connections and an asynchronous transfer mode frame relay backbone. To bolster security in the network, Lowery said, “We can see if anyone in the organization is going into files they are not allowed access to.” The Trilogy network later this year will host the Virtual Case File system, a browser-based application that will let FBI agents store, inspect and correlate data about criminal cases and national security investigations. The bureau plans to deploy the VCF on Dec. 13. Full Story
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