NSW Telco Authority is hoping to fix performance issues in its emergency radio network’s IT system through an infrastructure refresh.
The authority’s Public Safety Network (PCN), a dedicated radio network for frontline emergency and essential services and government agencies, is underpinned by an IT and operating technology environment known as RADNET.
RADNET’s “ageing” Dell-Nutanix hardware hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is reaching end-of-life, resulting in “performance degradation” [pdf].
As such, the authority is looking to replace and decommission its legacy HCI by June next year and has now gone to tender for proposals.
In a statement to iTnews, an NSW Telco Authority spokesperson said the tender “represents a critical step in refreshing the HCI Infrastructure”.
Currently, a Dell-Nutanix HCI with VMWare vSphere is used to host 90 percent of RADNET’s servers and applications, including Kalibre for performance insights and monitoring.
The HCI spans 12 nodes spread across two Sydney data centres and 200 virtual machines on VMware vSphere.
According to tender documents, NSW Telco Authority intends to migrate its VMs to either an upgraded vSphere or AHV Nutanix.
As part of the migration, the Authority is also looking to build five new Nutanix or vSphere ESXi clusters.
According to the document, the project “presents an opportunity to refresh the HCI to better align with current business needs, including dedicating four nodes to support Kalibre’s governance management responsibilities, thus consolidating oversight and responsibility”.