2. A step towards collaboration:
By building a single infrastructure
service across Kent and Medway to
support a common approach to
integrated systems that will:
3. A step towards collaboration
- Meeting Common Goals:
• Facilitate a personal health record focused around Kent
residents.
• Maximise the opportunities of the Internet of Things and
create fluid boundaries for Kent residents.
• Mobilise the workforce to support workforce reform.
• Remove waste and duplication in business processes.
• Enable greater use of data intelligence to shape future care
pathways.
5. Kent Public Service Network
370,000+ users
1160+ sites
27 Partners /
users
60+ access
points
Health
Schools
Universities
Fire & Rescue
FE Colleges
Business Parks
District Councils
County Council
Hospices
Libraries
Museums
Leisure Centres
6. What does it look like...
Internet
Internet
Commercial
Internet
Commercial
Internet
PSN
HSCN
HSCN
7. What does it offer?
• Connectivity for:
– Local Authorities
(428)
– Health (64)
– Local Authority
Education (565)
– Blue Lights (61)
– Others (5)
• Aggregated
Services:
– Internet
– PSN
– N3 via a Partner
– Mail relays
– Filtering
– Remote Access
– Firewalls
– Roaming
– Shared Buildings
8. Roaming
A common WiFi roaming
service is being provided
over KPSN.
Currently available at 250
sites and growing.
This service is due to be
rolled out nationally.
Provides access to local
WiFi services and the
internet, based upon a
common set of
standards.
9. Roaming (cont’d)
Benefits include:
Increases the productivity of mobile workers by
enabling them to easily connect from any public
sector building (that offers “govroam”).
Allows staff to work flexibly from various locations
across the public estate across Kent and beyond.
Improves disaster recovery and business continuity
operations by enabling staff to easily relocate to
alternative sites and have access to their online
systems.
Facilitates health/social care interaction by enabling
connectivity at NHS sites.
10. Roaming (cont’d)
Benefits include:
Improves professional development and training by
enabling connectivity at Higher Education and
school sites (including joint publishing of eduroam
and “govroam”). (“eduroam” is the Further
Education / Higher Education equivalent of
“govroam” and is used extensively within that
community.)
Less reliance on mobile 3G/4G “dongles” to provide
connectivity for mobile workers.
11. Summary
• Use of existing services such as the Kent Public Service
Network and Roaming can facilitate the “Virtual Estate”.
• It facilitates the mobility of the workforce.
• It enables services to be delivered form any location.
• It makes it easier to share.
• This fosters trust and collaboration by sharing buildings and
services.
• Combined with other innovations being developed it will
enable Kent’s residents to receive and get access to a better
service.
What is KPSN?
It is a one-stop-shop for network connectivity in Kent for all Public Sector organisations.
It currently supports public service providers ranging from the County Council to GP’s. And has brought connectivity to the Sandwich Discovery Park supporting a number of SME’s with broadband where industry have found it non-viable.
It currently supports all local authorities in Kent and enables them to share services were possible and appropriate.
It provides secure and monitored Internet access to all of its users.
It enables organisations to reduce their networking costs by up to 40%
It provides a single point on contact for all network and security related services for its users, making the resolution of issues, changes to services and the acquisition of new network related services easy to access.
In the early it facilitated the bringing of High-Speed broadband to support local business where others could not.
It also has improved access to business class broadband services across the county, by just being there.
It vison is to…………………..
Its an MPLS network that spans the whole county and is predominately based upon BT exchanges.
This gives us the opportunity to provide high speed , low costs local access circuits to nearly all of the sites connected.
Configured as a series of resilient rings we can offer five 9’s availability across the core infrastructure and 15ms round trip delay from one side to the other.
We are a fully accredited PSN Service Provider.
A lot has bee played on saving money by the aggregation of services. We do this particularly well within the Core by:
Aggregating Internet services
Using Jisc and a Commercial feed
Aggregating PSN connectivity
We also via one of our Partners and Users provide to N3 services as required.
Connectivity is totally flexible providing highly available connection services and resilient options if the site wants it.
All of these buildings have the capability of supporting any of the other users of the service. In fact some of them do with LA, Health, Police, and education service all using the single connection out of the building.
A wide range of connectivity services are used, ranging from 1Gb fibre all the way through wireless or fibre UTP to connect within the same campus.
Connection Services can be fully managed or wires only where the Partner wants to connect two locations directly together. We are just putting in a 10Gb wires only service for a Health organisation to back up their Data Centres.
Aggregated Services:
These are all part of the service and can be delivered to any site, within reason. The majority of our Partners use the majority of these services, some and free to use at the moment.
One exciting new development at the moment is Roaming. We have created a standard county wide roaming service using Partners Wi-Fi service within there buildings. The has to date been rolled out across 250+ sites connected to KPSN. This enables mobile officers effectively to work from building publishing the standard SSID. For those of you familiar with the eduroam service this is built on that technology and soon be compatible with the new National Roaming service govroam which is about to come into use.
