(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Omantel together with The Information Technology Authority (ITA) recently conducted a workshop outlining the details of the Oman Government Network (OGN). The workshop, which was held at Intercontinental Hotel Muscat, was attended by representatives of all ministries and government organisations, in addition to heads of corporate sectors.
Samy Ahmed al Ghassany chief operating officer, Omantel, said, ''We are proud of our partnership with ITA to implement this ambitious project which comes in-line with the government plans to transform into digital society.'' He added, ''We have achieved great milestones in Oman Government Network (OGN) project linking hundreds of Government locations through a state-of-theart MPLS network.
This has enabled these organizations to work as one entity through the electronic exchange and transmission of data.'' Commenting on the occasion, Yaqoob Safer al Balushi, deputy CEO for Infrastructure and eServices at ITA said, ''Establishing a digital network will ensure fast and secure exchange of information and data in the country. By streamlining our systems, our goal is to increase the efficiency of the Oman government.
OGN is a key factor to achieving the Digital Oman Strategy, whereby Oman is electronically transformed into a digitally based knowledge society.'' The objective of the day-long workshop is to increase awareness among the government entities about the Oman Government Network, the benefits it provides, and how it aligns itself with Oman's eGovernment vision. (OGN), put simply, is an interconnection of government organizations and ministries and within each ministry exist numerous sites.
The OGN facilitates communications between the different branches or sites of a Ministry, and also enables transactions between different ministries in a safe and secure way. The OGN is a completely managed service utilizing network equipment (routers and modems) owned and managed by the service provider, Omantel. Ministries are provided access to a monitoring portal whereby they can view the performance, utilization, and availability of the service.
In addition to educating the ministry employees who will most benefit from the adoption of the Oman Government Network (OGN) through MPLS technology, there was an open panel discussion between speakers from ITA and Omantel. Topics up for discussion included current best practices, complete with real life case studies, identifying challenges that have presented thus far with regard to the operation of the OGN.
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