<p>The responsibilities of Federal civil telecommunications are distributed by Congress
among the General Services Administration (GSA), the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), and the Department of Commerce. GSA provides a centralized organization and
coordinated process for acquisition and oversight of equipment and services for an
Integrated Federal Telecommunications System (IFTS) to meet federal telecommunication
requirements.</p>
<p>
The IFTS currently consists of heterogeneous, largely independent networks and
telecommunication acquisition programs which are being coordinated through GSA. Under
GSA's direct control within the IFTS are the two Federal Telecommunications System 2000
(FfS2000) voice and data networks (Network A-services acquired from AT&T and
Network B-services acquired from US Sprint). Presently, the FTS2000 does not provide
telecommunication services outside the United States (U.S.), Puerto Rico, Guam, and the
Virgin Islands. There are, however, federal agency requirements for telecommunication
services to international locations. International locations are by definition any locations
outside the U.S., excluding Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. Agencies requiring
international telecommunication services are currently subscribing individually to interlata
carriers authorized to provide international telecommunication services and may not be
benefiting from economies of aggregating their international telecommunication traffic with
other agencies.</p>
<p>The objective of this project is to support GSA in procuring technically-effective and
cost-efficient end-to-end international telecommunication services. This will be achieved
by aggregating international bound traffic of several agencies, reducing the number of
access points to the international carrier's network, establishing a government-wide standard
on performance and features of the network, consolidating the billing, and obtaining better
discounts due to higher traffic volume. Every agency participating in this program will
benefit from better service and lower costs.</p> / Master of Engineering
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/40886 |
| Date | 02 February 2010 |
| Creators | Khanna, Yogesh |
| Contributors | Systems Engineering, Blanchard, Benjamin S. Jr., Triantis, Konstantinos P., Ghare, Prabhakar M. |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master's project |
| Format | BTD, application/pdf |
| Relation | LD5655.V851_1991.K537.pdf |
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