Blackberry & RAS WAN Links

Initiative Overview

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the potential savings that could be made by
the Home Office Business Unit by changing internet service provider and consolidating
the connections. The current service is provided by Fujitsu, and costs the Business
Unit approximately £110k per year (£55k per datacentre). This paper demonstrates
how this charge could be reduced, without impact to service.

Service Supplier Review

In order to assess the value of this work, different providers were asked for estimates
based on a combined solution. Currently two separate services (RAS access and
Blackberry) are provided over separate internet links provided by NSD in SDC01.
These are then mirrored for disaster recovery (DR) in SDC02 giving a total of 4
separate links. For purposes of comparison the two links at SDC01 are combined
(30Mb and a 1Mb link.) All costs are based on very high level estimates from the
supplier; they do not include SLAs, or uptime guarantees. It is also important to state
that the providers currently support other Government teams within Fujitsu. Final
costs may differ from what is listed. The purpose of this document is to ascertain
whether there is a credible case for a more in depth review. If decided that there is
value in pursuing this case, then a detailed analysis can be completed by an architect
in 4 - 8 days.

The table below lists the provider responses and focus on SDC01 Datacentre only. All
costs are based on estimates from the supplier.
Total
Bandwi Installat Annual Cost of
Supplier dth ion Cost Yr 1 - 5 Service Saving (%)
NSD £55,222.7 £276,113 £276,113
(Incumbent) 31Mb £0 2 .60 .60 £0.00 (0%)
£38,400.0 £192,000 £204,500 £71,613.60
Abovenet 50Mb £12,500 0 .00 .00 (26%)
£13,260.0 £66,300. £69,300. £206,813.60
Colt (36mth) 40Mb £3,000 0 00 00 (75%)
£15,600.0 £78,000. £81,000. £195,113.60
Colt (12mth) 40Mb £3,000 0 00 00 (71%)
£2,703.0 £19,536.0 £97,680. £100,383 £175,730.60
A&A 40Mb 0 0 00 .00 (64%)
£48,000. £50,000. £226,113.60
FJ Abovenet 40Mb £2,000 £9,600.00 00 00 (82%)

A Graph showing the total projected estimated expenditure on the internet

link in SDC01 over five years.

The table below lists the provider responses and focus on SDC02 Datacentre only. All
costs are based on estimates from the supplier.

Bandwi Installat Annual

Supplier dth ion Cost Yrs 1 – 5 TCV Saving
NSD 31Mb £0 £55,222. £276,113 £276,113 £0.00 (0%)
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(Incumbent) 72 .60 .60
£4,500.0 £21,000. £105,000 £105,000 £171,113.60
Abovenet 50Mb 0 00 .00 .00 (62%)
£13,260. £66,300. £66,300. £209,813.60
Colt (36mth) 40Mb £3,000 00 00 00 (76%)
£15,600. £78,000. £78,000. £198,113.60
Colt (12mth) 40Mb £3,000 00 00 00 (72%)
£2,703.0 £21,360. £106,800 £106,800 £169,313.60
A&A 40Mb 0 00 .00 .00 (61%)
FJ Abovenet £9,600.0 £48,000. £50,000. £226,113.60
(Est) 40Mb £2,000 0 00 00 (82%)

A Graph showing the total projected estimated expenditure on the internet

link in SDC02 over five years.

The table below shows the combined figures for both data centres. All costs are based
on estimates from the supplier.

Supplier TCV Saving

NSD £552,227
(Incumbent) .20 £0.00 (0%)
£309,500 £242,727.20
Abovenet .00 (44%)
£135,600 £416,627.20
Colt (36mth) .00 (75%
£159,000 £393,227.20
Colt (12mth) .00 (71%)
£207,183 £345,044.20
A&A .00 (62%)
FJ Abovenet £100,000 £452,227.20
(Est) .00 (82%)

Capacity & Growth

To ensure the link can provide for future growth without significant additional cost, a
brief review of existing and forecasted demand was completed.

The Home Office have just over 1600 live blackberry devices on the estate and a fixed
limit of 1900 users set by the customer. The blackberry service currently uses around
1Mbps and it would be reasonable to forecast that due to this fixed user limit, the
service will not require more than 2Mbps in it’s lifetime.

It was not feasible within the scope of this review to gather any useful data on
predicted growth for the RAS Service. There is currently no historical data on service
demand. Many variables affect this services use, for example; employment cuts and
bad weather. For an accurate estimate of demand over the next five years a specific

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piece of work would need to be commissioned similar to the Storage Capacity review
recently finished.

Charges: For any upgrade to the WAN Service bandwidth, Colt charges a one off fee of
£1,000. For example, a 60Mbps pipe, rather than the current 40Mbps one would cost
an additional £192 - £225 depending on contract length. Any further detail from other
suppliers would be compared at bid.

Summary

As you can see from the tables by switching both Data centres to different providers
there is a potential estimated saving above £400,000 over five years.

All of the suppliers listed except FJ Abovenet are simple point to point connections and
would require no additional design changes to the estate. The FJ Abovenet option
would use existing Fujitsu connections from other accounts as well as our own existing
links. This cross account co-operation would save a further £35,600.00 compared with
the cheapest single point provider Colt. However it would require a network re-design
and a security review.

If other Fujitsu accounts have existing business with suppliers not listed here, then
these could also be approached. The CTO forum would be an excellent place to raise
this.

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