THE BRITISH ARMY
“ We delivered the passive element of internet access to every building within the army estate . BT , who were our partner in terms of delivering that infrastructure , wired up those 40 sites and they ' re going live as we speak ”
“ We ' re now working on phase two , which is a much bigger challenge . The next phase consists of about £ 70mn worth of infrastructure – about one hundred regular sites , a hundred reserve sites , and a whole load of publicly-financed initiative sites . PFIs are privately-financed initiatives , which will be more complicated because we don ' t necessarily own that bit of the estate , it ' s in a PFI ,” he says .
“ Phase two , again , will begin to deliver this year , though . We ' ll be putting the hardwire infrastructure in the passive infrastructure and turning it on in this financial year . Users are now increasingly connected , but that also means that that bit of the estate is connected as well . This will enable us to start exploiting technologies like the Internet of Things ( IoT ); we can start moving data around in a better way ; we can start collecting data that we couldn ' t collect from that environment .”
BRIG . STEFAN CROSSFIELD HEAD OF INFORMATION EXPLOITATION , CDO , DEPUTY CIO , THE BRITISH ARMY technologymagazine . com 47