Law Enforcement Net goes IP
A "highly secure system". Righto... ;-)
Dibya Sarkar writes in FCW.com:
The National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System (NLETS), a highly secure system that shares private information among public safety and justice agencies, has upgraded to an IP-based network, making it possible to encrypt the 41 million-plus transmissions the network carries each month.
Established 38 years ago as a nonprofit organization and jointly owned by the 50 states, NLETS has been making improvements in recent years to keep current with technological advances. About 30,000 agencies in the United States and Canada use the system.
Law enforcement and public safety officials can query databases for vehicle data and motorist histories, criminal records, citizenship and immigration information, and aircraft tracking and registration data, among other types of information.
NLETS administrators decided to upgrade the network from a frame relay infrastructure to an IP-based one after the FBI mandated that all public safety agencies must provide end-to-end encryption by today. Cisco Systems routers, switches and firewalls were deployed at the organization’s Phoenix headquarters and at a backup facility in Idaho. The company also deployed an intrusion-prevention system.
posted by Fergie @ 9/30/2005 12:32:00 PM
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