Finance seeks new data network

Data travelling across the fibre network is typically routed through a redundant core in JGB, creating a single point of failure that exposes the department to the risk of an unacceptable outage of critical business processes should the JGB data centre fail.

The new network design is expected to reduce single points of failure in the network, be flexible, agile and scalable, support VoIP, unified communications and 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless communications and incorporate IPv6.

It is expected to integrate with the department's existing Microsoft System Centre Operations manager (SCOM) application and meet its business requirements for the next decade.