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Dear Mr. Hellard

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your recent request received in this office on 9th November

You have requested the following information under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

i) Who are the incumbent suppliers of the "basic connectivity

(Layer 2)" for your Wide Area Network Services? Are any contracts

due for renewal in the next six months?

ii) How many sites are there on your network and how many require

high speed (greater than 1Gig) connections?

iii) Do you build and operate your own network or do you use a

Systems Integrator or Outsourcing company to do that? If so, please

specify who and when the contract expires.

iv) How many Data Centres do you use and are they on council

premises or third party premises? Please specify post codes for DC

locations. If third party please specify the company and when the

contract expires.

v) Do you operate your own Data Centres or do you use a

Systems Integrator or Outsourcing company for that? If so, please

specify who and when the contract expires.

vi) Do you use "Co-location" Services ? If yes who is the supplier

and when do the contracts need to be renewed?

Our response is as follows:-

  1. Suppliers Virgin Media (formerly NTL) and BT

  2. 90 sites. None on greater that 1 Gig connections. 10-100mg typical.

  3. Reading has Outsourced its Telecommunications to Pinacl Solutions. This contract expires end of October 2011.

  4. 1 Data Centre in Civic Offices. Post code RG1 7AE.

  5. Some applications are run on managed service basis where the individual application is run at the application vendors datacenter. Examples would include Capita, Midland Trent, Northgate

  6. No

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