Joining the GSN
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Who can participate in the Government Shared Network?
Participation in a controlled access, secure government network is not available as a product from any commercial supplier.
State Services agencies eligible to participate in the GSN are:
- All Public Service departments
- Non-Public Service departments
- Crown Entities (Independent and Autonomous)
- Offices of Parliament
- Crown Agents
- Local Government
Public Service departments will be required, and other government agencies will be invited, to formally evaluate the use of the Government Shared Network when their network supply contracts are re-negotiated. We will provide an evaluation framework for this purpose.
What is the process?
An agency intending to acquire any of the GSN products will work with the GSN through the following stages:
- Requirements: Confirm agency requirements and match these to the GSN products.
- High Level Design: Develop a high level design for the agencyâs adoption of the GSN.
- Contract: Execute formal agreement/Memorandum of Understanding for adoption of the selected product set including pricing and service targets.
- Detailed Design: Develop detailed designs for each of the desired products.
- Migration Planning: Develop a detailed consolidated plan of agency and GSN activities to build, test and implement the products.
- Provisioning: Required circuits and Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) are ordered, provisioned, configured and tested. Agency complete UAT and approves productionisation.
- Migration: Agency existing services are cut-over to the GSN products on an agreed timeline. Depending on the product set, this may be over a period of weeks. BAU Operations commence as each is cut-over.
Note: In practice, detailed design, migration planning, and provisioning activities may overlap in time and may continue into the migration phase, depending on a particular agency's objectives and constraints.
How do I get started?
Contact gsn@ssc.govt.nz