What do the initials IRNE stand for?
Integrated Regional Network Enterprise • What is the purpose of IRNE? IRNE is a telecommunications network plan that will carry all voice, video and data communications for the City of Portland and its partners. The IRNE is a high-capacity, high-reliability design that does more than conventional leasing currently practiced by the City. • What is the strategy for IRNE? The IRNE will address and help solve several critical problems for the City of Portland and the Portland metro area. • There is a growing need for highly reliable, high-bandwidth network capacity for voice, video and data to allow electronic government to develop, especially in the public safety sector where information technology is now our most important law enforcement technology. • The historic government practice of implementing network solutions without an over-all architectural strategy has created a proliferation of dissimilar devices, network management strategies, replacement cycles and application. • High-spee
