Alabama FY24 NCHIPSF

Under this award, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) requests funding to improve the reliability of the state criminal justice information system network and connectivity to all criminal justice agencies. The current network needs additional network switches and new “edge routers” to meet the growing demands of bandwidth and national security standards. Recently, ALEA upgraded 19 of these switches; another 51 are needed to complete the next phase of the network modernization. The routers provide the entry and exit point for external connections into the internal network and connect remote sites that do not connect through dedicated circuits. The current routers are approximately eight years old and well beyond their expected service life. Funds are being requested to purchase Cisco Catalyst 9300 switches and Cisco Catalyst 8500 routers.