PSNs are the most important building block in
the process of reducing the back-office ICT costs in the public
sector, and a fundamental tool for creating better connected
collaborative shared service delivery. Without local, regional and
national PSNs the public sector will fail to deliver the
efficiencies and savings it simply has to find.
PSNs connect all services onto a single,
secure and flexible communications network, offering individual
services to organisations, while aggregating the need and cost of
connectivity. PSNs have proved they can cut the cost of
connectivity by up to 50–60 per cent, but that is only part of the
PSN story. By reducing the number of data centres, servers and
storage systems, cutting duplication in back office application and
licence costs, and downsizing operational teams, tens of millions
of pounds will be saved through PSN adoption.
PSN adoption is a vital step in creating
internal and cross-sector collaboration. If services can securely
share one network, and securely share back office systems and
processes, then front-line workers are enabled to collaborate and
work smarter together.
Founded on our experience of building and
operating the
Public Sector Broadband Aggregation (PSBA) Network for the
Welsh Assembly Government, Logicalis’ Community and Regional Public
Sector Network (PSN) Architecture is our blueprint for the rest of
the UK in terms of PSN adoption. The PSBA network, the UK’s largest
single PSN, connects over 2,000 sites across all major sectors,
delivering cost savings and a platform for further collaboration
and consolidation.
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Manifesto brochure