City Departments have staff, offices, and facilities spread across many square miles. Information Systems builds and operates the LAN, WAN, wired, wireless, and fiber infrastructure serving City facilities and staff. The department manages servers, workstations, information security, software platforms, phone (VoIP) and email communications systems, cloud or hosted services, and helpdesk services for City staff. Almost all the City's technology-related planning, budget, and purchasing are centralized under Information Systems to help manage costs, security, compatibility, and technology life cycles.