What the buyer wrote
DVLA has a highly complex networks architecture which has grown organically over 10 years or more to become difficult and inflated to support and manage. DVLA's core and edge switching solution has become hugely complicated, with over 25 Nortel/Avaya 8600 series chassis switches making up the 'core' network. This core is distributed over three sites and many data centres, several of which are in sub-optimal locations. A Technical Initiative was agreed to deliver an entirely new networking architecture for DVLA, based on Juniper Networks technology. The technology selection was based on technical, engagement and service considerations. The requirement was to replace all legacy core, data…
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Network Technical Assessment
- How they are buying
- Called off an existing agreementThe work went to a supplier already on a framework or dynamic market.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 17 Jul 2018
- Work ends
- 17 Nov 2018
- Kind of work
- IT support and managed services
Who the buyer named
Sharon Morris was the named contact on this notice.