Ohio County to Use CARES Funds for Fiber Network Expansion

Government Technology: Summit County Council is expected to consider giving $6.5 million in federal CARES Act money to Fairlawn to expand the city’s existing fiber-optic network to county and City of Akron municipal buildings that conduct criminal justice hearings.

The project seeks to connect buildings – especially courthouses and jails – to the FairlawnGig network, in an effort to improve high-speed Internet for court proceedings held online due to the coronavirus pandemic, the county said Tuesday in a news release.

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