Glasgow City
Council,one of the UK’s largest, is rolling
out an IP network over the next six months that will provide data,
video and voice services to more than 30,000
employees.
The network upgrade is the latest to be delivered under a £42m
deal with telecoms supplier Thus that Glasgow signed in 2004.
Thus will install the
Cisco Unified Communications System and a new contact centre
that will be multi-lingual.
Glasgow provides services to more than 600,000 people. Its
network infrastructure had developed in an ad hoc way and needed to
be consolidated.
Last year, Glasgow announced the largest shared services project
in local government when it signed a deal with other public sector
agencies in Strathclyde to jointly run services with a combined
budget of some £1bn a year. (Link to
Glasgow Council targets savings with £1bn shared services.)
Glasgow councillor Alan Stewart said that the council will cut
its maintenance costs by moving to a single network.
http://www.thus.net/industrysectors/localgovernment/challenge-04.shtml
http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/YourCouncil/eGovernment/Strategy/Communications+Strategy.htm
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