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Pushing Body-Cam Video to the Cloud: Is Utah's Network Up to the Task?

Broadband is making its way back onto CIO priority lists, and the reason why lies in the cloud.

Utah CIO Mike Hussey
Mike Hussey, CIO, Utah
David Kidd/Government Technology
Mike Hussey has a broadband problem. At the NASCIO Midyear conference last week in Virginia, the Utah state CIO told Government Technology that broadband ranks near the top of his priority list. Like many of his counterparts, cloud storage — in Utah's case, with Amazon Web Services — is helping the state deal with the unprecedented volume of body-cam video footage gathered by law enforcement officers as they do their jobs around the state. It simply doesn't make financial sense to store it on premise. 

But turning to the cloud comes with its own challenges. At the Beyond the Beltway conference earlier this year, Hussey captured the extent of the issue in rural Utah communities, explaining that it took a state trooper a full day to upload the video he captured on one shift.

Here, Hussey talks about one strategy Utah is pursuing to beef up its broadband network. 




 

 

Noelle Knell is the executive editor for e.Republic, responsible for setting the overall direction for e.Republic’s editorial platforms, including Government Technology, Governing, Industry Insider, Emergency Management and the Center for Digital Education. She has been with e.Republic since 2011, and has decades of writing, editing and leadership experience. A California native, Noelle has worked in both state and local government, and is a graduate of the University of California, Davis, with majors in political science and American history.