Finance dept to proof network for outages

The Department of Finance and Deregulation will upgrade its IT data infrastructure network to remove points of failure as well as enable the the introduction within three years of new technologies such as Voice over IP (VoIP) and wireless networking.

Data travelling across the fibre network is generally routed through a redundant core located in JGB. The datacentre infrastructure supporting the core switches at JGB creates a single point of failure for the network. This exposes Finance to the risk of an unacceptable outage of critical business processes in the event of any prolonged failure of the JGB datacentre.

The winner of the tender will also be required to take into account future enhancements including VoIP and wireless computing capabilities, both of which are expected to be implemented within the next three years. Desktop virtualisation and desktop video-conferencing are also future possibilities that need to be accommodated for in submissions for the tender.