Scottish Government Connectivity and Network Service: FOI release

Information requested

1.Connectivity and Network Services

a. Who provides your WAN and internet connectivity and the annual spend on each?

b. Who provides your SIP trunks and what is the annual spend?

c. Who provides your WAN services, is this MPLS, SD WAN or Internet, and what is the annual spend?

d. Who provides your LAN infrastructure and what is your annual spend?

e. Who provides your WIFI infrastructure and what is your annual spend?

f. Please confirm the manufacturer(s) of your wired network core and edge switching?

g. When was your core network installed?

h. Has it been updated subsequently?

i. Who maintains your core network?

j. When is the contract renewal date?

k. Please confirm value of the initial project?

l. Please confirm the value of annual support/maintenance services (in £)?

Response

Please find responses to your questions below.

1. Connectivity and Network Services
a. Who provides your WAN and internet connectivity and the annual spend on each?

The main Internet and MPLS provider is the Scottish Wide Area Network www.scottishwan.com currently operated by Capita under the National Services Scotland (NSS) Authority.
£1,499,796 p.a

Additional Internet resilience is provided by the following:
Commsworld
£65.5k p.a.
Annual rolling renewal

Virgin Media
£21k p.a
Annual rolling renewal

b. Who provides your SIP trunks and what is the annual spend?
Gamma Telecom £113,513.19 p.a.

c. Who provides your WAN services, is this MPLS, SD WAN or Internet, and what is the annual spend?
Please see above for Internet and MPLS.

We consider SD-WAN to be a security related deployment. As such while our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance an exemption under section 30(c) of FOISA (prejudice to effective conduct of public affairs) applies to your request. Disclosing this information would substantially prejudice our ability to carry out the effective conduct of public affairs. Providing details about the information you have requested into the public domain could subsequently be used by attackers, taking into consideration both the external and insider threat, to evade any protective monitoring we might or might not have in place. This could therefore enable them to target specific types of attack or data exfiltration methods and would constitute substantial prejudice to the effective conduct of public affairs.

d. Who provides your LAN infrastructure and what is your annual spend?
LAN infrastructure is provided by the Scottish Government ITECS service. Annual spend for LAN including wifi has averaged £280k per year over the last five years.

e. Who provides your WIFI infrastructure and what is your annual spend?
WIFI is provided by the Scottish Government ITECS service. Costs are included in the previous answer.

f. Please confirm the manufacturer(s) of your wired network core and edge switching?
Alcatel-Lucent.

g. When was your core network installed?
The core network was installed in 2009.

h. Has it been updated subsequently?
Core elements are updated as technology becomes end-of-life.

i. Who maintains your core network?
Network maintenance is provided by Computacentre.

j. When is the contract renewal date?
December 2024.

k. Please confirm value of the initial project?
£ 45k.

l. Please confirm the value of annual support/maintenance services (in £)?
£58,474 p.a. for core, edge and wifi.

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