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<br /> <br />Ms. Kierkiewicz: Mitch Roth mentioned that the Prosecutor’s Office has a phone <br />system that’s separate from the rest of the County. <br /> <br />Mr. Jacobs: Yes, it is separate. <br /> <br />Ms. Kierkiewicz: Is there, is that intentional? <br /> <br />Mr. Jacobs: It’s, I think it’s a product of cost and separation that’s happened. <br />For example, this is a CISCO voice over IP system and that’s the same system that we <br />use in West Hawai‘i so for me to be able to dial over to John, it’s a four digit dialing it’s <br />like they’re here. The system that Mitch and Prosecutor’s is using is a different vendor <br />and when they were looking to upgrade that system, we talked about maybe <br />consolidating on the CISCO platform. CISCO is very proprietary so in order for <br />Prosecutor’s to do that they were going to have to swap out every network switch they <br />had. <br /> <br />Mr. Mitchell: Oh my God. <br /> <br />Mr. Jacobs: To get to CISCO and so it was just so cost prohibitive that they <br />Said, “Well you know it’s less expensive for us to get a system that works with the <br />infrastructure that we have as oppose to try to switch.” I would love to go; I would love <br />to go to their system because I know their technology ends very good, but it’s the same <br />problem on this side. All of my switches are CISCO, I would have to switch all of those <br />out and about a thousand telephones. So it’s not an easy transition to try and bring <br />those two things together because of the cost involved. <br /> <br />Ms. Maddox: But is that necessarily a negative thing to have that as a stand <br />alone? <br /> <br />Mr. Jacobs: I honestly don’t think it’s a negative thing. In some aspects there’s a <br />little bit of positivity to that because if one system goes down you don’t lose everybody. <br />So I mean I could lose the Hilo side for voice over IP, but it’s not going to impact the <br />Prosecutors. So there’s an advantage to having some of that separation. <br /> <br />Ms. Kelly: But my understanding is that Prosecutors, the judiciary system and <br />the Police work so close and networking that some time they cause each other a lot <br />expenses if they don’t know the schedule somebody and they got to bring in an officer <br />to testify in court that’s a day off is being paid time and a half. So if he wasn’t at work <br />that was shared among these three identities. You know Prosecution and district and <br />Police, you would think that it would be a better networking between them because <br />they’re working in the same function. <br /> <br />Mr. Jacobs: Right and I think we’re going to see a little bit of that because one of <br />the problems was Prosecutors have their own email system and Police have their own <br />email system and now we’re all going to be together so if I wanted to, if I knew what the <br />police officer’s schedule was I could see it in his calendar in exchange and I can in the <br />consolidated world, which I could not before. So there’s going to be some availability to <br />better schedule things like that with the consolidation and you’re absolutely right, a <br />converged network allows much easier communications on that sort of things. <br /> <br />12 <br /> <br /> <br />