Peter Dinham
Sunday, 08 March 2009 06:54
IT Industry -
Strategy
The Shoalhaven City Council in New South Wales has contracted national network service provider, ViaIP, to upgrade their data network with the installation of a premium MPLS based wide area network with enhanced data services and quality of service to support VOIP.
ViaIP’s business development manager, Heath
Donald, said today that the network “carefully designed” for the
Shoalhaven council would allow sites to communicate with each other
more effectively.
“QoS is enabled on the network which maximises bandwidth efficiencies
giving key applications the protection required to perform day in and
day out. This means critical applications such as VoIP will have
priority over the network.”
Shoalhaven’s IT manager, John Lenehan, said the ViaIP upgrade to the
council’s network would improve business practices across the council,
and the architecture’s in-built redundancy would provide business
continuity and use of a back up link in times of emergency.
ViaIP says it won the contract with Shoalhaven Council’s after a
lengthy and competitive tender process administered by PABX Advisory
Services.