The Cabinet has considered proposals to commission a capital scheme that would enable the replacement of the existing Local Area Network (LAN) and Wi-Fi system, and has given approval to:-
(1) The replacement of the existing Aruba wifi solution with a completely new Cisco solution, this would tie in more with the strategic direction of the GM One network.
(2) The replacement of all local Area Network (LAN) equipment with new cisco switching infrastructure.
(3) The council moving to an industry standard 5 year lifecycle management programme for this critical network infrastructure.
(4) The funding of the capital and revenue costs of the recommended options as set out in section 8 of the report.