Featurenet Replacement Study

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Featurenet Replacement Study

• What does Featurenet cost now?
• What alternatives are there?
• What are the likely costs?

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What is the cost now?

• 1600 Handsets
• _at_ 205,612 per year

As at Sept. 2003
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What is the cost now?
In addition

• NNC carrier lines
• Fnet 1000 lines
• Fnet 5000 ISDN lines
• Additional services
• _at_ 46,271 per year

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What is the cost now?

251,883
Total annual rental
30,000
M.A.C.s
123,372
Call Charges/year
405,255
Total Service Cost
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What is the cost now?
Call costs 123,372
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Issues

• Fnet is centrex service
• No on site switches
• All lines are direct
• Whole service is leased
• Possible replacement
• Switch equipment required
• Telephone network required
• Maintenance SLA required

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Service impact

• Pros
• Voice mail (one off cost)
• Features (as part of switch)
• Call costs vendor independent
• Cons
• Shared lines
• Impact on facilities staff
• Renumbering of whole network

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Alternatives

• Independent switches on all sites
• High switch investment
• High support costs
• No economies of scale on call costs
• No economies of scale on line provision
• No overall numbering scheme

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Alternatives

• Extension of Acute service
• High switch investment
• Medium VPN investment
• Economies of scale on call costs
• Economies of scale on line provision
• Single overall numbering scheme

Dependant on CORE network provision of
technical infratructure project
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Alternatives

• WSSA phone system
• High switch investment
• High VPN costs
• Economies of scale on call costs
• Economies of scale on line provision
• Overall numbering scheme
• Independent of other projects

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Costs
Independent switches

• Cost prohibitive no detailed costs

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Costs
Extend Acute service
N.B. Some costs may be covered by other projects
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Costs
WSSA phone system
Based on quotation from GFI April 2003
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Costs
Estimated new annual call costs

115,000
N.B. does not include on net traffic
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Comparison
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