Telent completes WAN roll-out for National Highways
Telent has completed the nationwide roll-out of corporate Wide Area Network (WAN) services for National Highways, the agency that manages England’s strategic highways.
Telent has completed the nationwide roll-out of corporate Wide Area Network (WAN) services for National Highways, the agency that manages England’s strategic highways.
Telent connected more than 124 National Highways sites across the UK in three months to help launch the migration of National Highways’ corporate network estate from the incumbent provider.
The delivery included a national SD-WAN solution, dual data centre deployments, management system delivery, and both remote and on-site engineering support.
Key project highlights include 124 sites designed, built, integrated, migrated and onboarded between March and June this year, each site receiving a combination of on-site and remote engineering services. There was “meticulous planning and rigorous pre-site testing” to prevent any visible disruptions for end users during onboarding.
There are now around 5,400 average daily users connected to the new corporate network with 74 terabytes of data being transferred daily, supporting essential applications and services. Significantly enhanced bandwidth and performance, with measured post-cutover speeds, is showing marked improvements over previous benchmarks.
The sites covered include regional operations centres, head offices, depots and outstations, forming the digital backbone for National Highways' IT critical systems and staff.
Each site migration was managed to strict change control processes, with coordinated stakeholder engagement and approvals to limit operational impact. The upgraded infrastructure supports business applications, inter-site collaboration and secure data access.
“This has been a complex project involving the live migration of National Highways’ entire corporate network connectivity,” said Andy Gifford, director of highways at Telent.
“Completing it in such a short timeframe, while enhancing the performance and capability of the service, is a fantastic achievement.”
The project was awarded through Telent’s position on the National Highways Information Technology Commercial Framework and forms a key part of the broader transformation agenda, including ongoing work on the National Roads Telecommunications Service (NRTS).
National Highways is preparing for the next phase of digital infrastructure innovation, including the upcoming NRTS3 programme.
Telent's other clients include Transport for London and Network Rail.