City of Pharr Leads the Way for Other Cities with its Public Safety Initiatives and Enhancements

From a Well-Traveled International Bridge to Consoles for Crucial Public Safety Systems, This City Relies on Extreme Networks
Solutions to Constantly Scale up and Improve Its Performance.

Pharr, Texas is a city on the move. In 2019, the City of Pharr completed several key projects, including road and drainage infrastructure improvements, renovating parks, and developing a new state-of-the-art Public Safety Communications Building and data center.
But perhaps one of the city’s largest responsibilities is the operation of the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge, which is the country’s busiest bridge for moving produce between the U.S. and Mexico. In fact, more than 175,000 vehicles traverse the bridge each month and almost 70 percent of the nation’s produce crosses through here.

To handle this magnitude of projects, you need technology that’s 100-percent reliable. That’s why, when the City of Pharr merged the 911 dispatchers from the fre and police departments for its Public Safety Communications Building, getting the infrastructure right was paramount. “We remodeled an old building and had to get everything up to par,” says Jose J. Peña, CGCIO, Director of Innovation and Technology for the City of Pharr. “All of our operations are running from the new data center there.”

Prioritizing Safety for Pharr and Other Cities

From a Well-Traveled International Bridge to Consoles for Crucial Public Safety Systems, This City Relies on Extreme Networks
Solutions to Constantly Scale up and Improve Its Performance.
Pharr, Texas is a city on the move. In 2019, the City of Pharr completed several key project

s, including road and drainage infrastructure improvements, renovating parks, and developing a new state-of-the-art Public Safety Communications Building and data center.

But perhaps one of the city’s largest responsibilities is the operation of the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge, which is the country’s busiest bridge for moving produce between the U.S. and Mexico. In fact, more than 175,000 vehicles traverse the bridge each month and almost 70 percent of the nation’s produce crosses through here.