Objectives and benefits to the society

DHA currently has a wide variety of software and hardware. In order for DHA to achieve its strategic imperative, service delivery improvement, one of the key projects to embark on is office connectivity, which seeks to address connectivity and standardize on infrastructure. This will increase end-user productivity, eases support and maintenance, enhances reliability, improves security controls and reduces cost of ownership.

The Department is in the process of implementing a new network infrastructure in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs. This exercise will ensure among other benefits, that the entire DHA foreign network will integrate with local network thus making it easy to be managed, monitored and supported through a single point of access ie. network operating center. There is a however major challenge facing the border posts. While on the one hand it is necessary to put in place a satellite infrastructure to ensure connectivity, it is equally important to have the border post network incorporated onto the overall departmental network. This project will also help in integrating these border posts into DHA one network.

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Improvement to DHA Business Processes

DHA has lots of system that runs across the offices. To be able to access these systems you will need to have manage these. 

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Benefits to the DHA officials

DHA understand the power of partnership. It also understands that as a team you can achieve more. In most missions DHA share resources with DFA. This then necessitate that when DHA think of putting VOIP infrastructure in this offices it enter into a partnership with DFA. The long term plan in to also incorporate all government departments that have offices outside the Republic of South Africa.

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Approximate time frames for the delivery of the project

The time lime for the project will be the end of December 2006 and the target missions are 110 to be completed then. Currently five missions have been connected.

In the local connectivity the project is coming to an end. In two weeks time the project will be closed. There are about 400 offices across S.A. and all those that has Telkom connectivity has been done.

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