SLT powers Lanka Government Network

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has been chosen as the total telecommunication service provider as well as the communication infrastructure provider to the Government Network (LGN).

The Government aims at encouraging public sector employees to get better acquainted with Information and Communication Technology (ICT), assuring efficiency and smooth flow of information as well as improving standards of service in the public sector to be able to provide efficient citizen services.

The LGN project is a strategic project of Re-Engineering the Government program of Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), which functions under the Presidential Secretariat.

The IP-VPN (Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network) solution provided by SLT connects government offices to a unified network with a host of products such as voice, video, broadband Internet, networking and hosting services. Taking the government procedures into the realm of modern technology, SLT is responsible to network this mega ICT project titled ‘Lanka Government Network’ (LGN).

This project comes under the e-Sri Lanka initiative. Three hundred and twenty five government offices in the Western, Central, Southern and Sabaragamuwa provinces via VPN will be connected under stage I of the project, which includes Ministries, Departments, Districts and Divisional Secretariats.

The solution will allow islandwide government offices to have on-line access to a centralised IT system at any given time, enabling them to communicate with the Network Operation Centre (NOC) at the LGN. The planned network can carry Internet Protocol (IP) traffic - voice, video, mission critical and standard class data facilitating Government offices located islandwide with seamless connectivity.