Municipal Area Network

The LUS Powered Network consists of a Metropolitan Area Optical Network for Business Continuance, Storage Consolidation, and Multiservice Integration for the Lafayette Consolidated Government. The MAN can transmit data up to 100 Mbps. IBM Main Frame, Geographical Information Network Management, SCADA, and SAP systems are currently operating successfully on the network today. Lafayette Consolidated Government sites currently utilizing the MAN include City Hall, Lafayette Utilities System (electric substations, water and wastewater plants, Customer Information System, GIS), Clifton Chenier Center, and Public Works.

Lafayette Consolidated Government has plans for migrating voice, video and storage applications in Phase II of the implementation. Explosive growth of the Internet and enterprise business applications was placing a tremendous demand on the prior network, thus the mission-critical applications, such as e-business, voice, video, storage networking, and emerging applications such as streaming media, were out of reach with the legacy Frame Relay network. Development is also underway to connect additional locations to the network.