GSN revamp likely to cut costs
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| Government agencies can expect to save more than 30 per cent on telecommunications bills when the Government Shared Network (GSN) is relaunched at the end of November, its main supplier says.
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Datacraft and FX Networks will take over the existing GSN on October 1 and expect to have all 109 sites around New Zealand hooked up to the new network by the end of November, he says. |
Seven sites have been connected so far, and the firms plan to triple the size of the network to 300 sites by the end of next year. Read more at www.stuff.co.nz |
New Zealand replaces failed govt shared network |
New Zealand’s government has planned a six month project to shift agencies from the failed Government Shared Network (GSN) to a new platform called one.govt (Open Network Environment).
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An interview with Laurence Millar, in which he reflects on lessons learned during his five-year stint as New Zealand’s GCIO, will feature in the next issue of FutureGov.
Read more at www.futuregov.net |
Datacraft confirmed as new govt network provider |
| The Department of Internal Affairs has announced an agreement with Datacraft for the provision of telecommunications services to state sector agencies. |
Agencies are free to opt in to the IT networking services to be provided by Datacraft, but are not required to do so. Datacraft will brand the services as “one.govt”. “One” is an acronym for “open network environment”.
Read more at computerworld.co.nz |
Government IT service kicks off with GSN fix |
| The successor to the Government Shared Network (GSN) already has the critical mass to be viable, says Stephen Crombie, head of Government Technology Services (GTS), and anything beyond this would be a bonus. |
| “We know the service is viable now with the current demand we’ve got,” Crombie says. “It’s obviously cost-effective for the provider [Datacraft] to provide it at the current demand level, which is nine participating agencies. So any further demand — and there seems to be quite a lot of interest out there — would further improve the economics for the service provider as well as for the agencies themselves,” Crombie says. Read more at computerworld.co.nz |
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GSN revamp likely to cut costs 30%
