THE Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources has signalled it will install internet protocol telephony in its new Canberra premises.
The agency is seeking submissions from consultants for technical requirements and costs of voice over IP for a greenfield site.
The department’s Canberra office will move to new premises in the second half of 2006 bringing together about 1500 staff from four buildings.
At present, the department’s voice network is a standalone system that is not networked with interstate offices.
All interoffice communications between the six state offices and 16 regional offices are carried over PSTN.
DITR outsources its managed voice services.
It owns its Cisco-based data services infrastructure but outsources the management to Macquarie Corporate Telecommunications.
The successful tenderer will be required to prepare a report containing non-vendor specific advice on IP telephony systems and cost estimates for the department’s VoIP technical requirements.
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