FOI request detail

Information in Communications Systems and Technology

Request ID: FOI-0947-2425
Date published: 15 July 2024

You asked
Connectivity and Network Services: a. Who provides your WAN and internet connectivity and the annual spend on each b. Who provides your SIP trunks and what is the annual spend c. Who provides your WAN services, is this MPLS, SD WAN or Internet, and what is the annual spend d. Who provides your LAN infrastructure and what is your annual spend e. Who provides your WIFI infrastructure and what is your annual spend f. Please confirm the manufacturer(s) of your wired network core and edge switching? g. When was your core network installed? h. Has it been updated subsequently? i. Who maintains your core network? j. When is the contract renewal date? k. Please confirm value of the initial project? l. Please confirm the value of annual support/maintenance services (in £)? Telephony and storage: 1. Telephony and UC/ Collaboration a. Please confirm the manufacturer of your telephony system(s) that are currently in place b. When is your contract renewal date? c. Who maintains your telephony system(s)? d. Do you use Unified Communications or Collaboration tools , if so which ones? 2. Microsoft a) What Microsoft 365 licence do you have across the business e.g. E3, E5 b) Which partner looks after your Microsoft tenant? c) Where do you host your applications? Do you have on-premise infrastructure or do you host your applications in public or private cloud? Which? 3. Storage a. Does your organisation use on-premise or cloud storage or both? b. Please confirm the on-premise hardware manufacturer c. Please confirm your cloud storage provider d. What is your annual spend on cloud storage? e. How do you back up your data and with who e.g. Backup as a Service Contact Centre, CRM, and AI & Automation: 1. Contact Centre – target to organisations we know have a CC a. Do you have a customer/ citizen facing contact centre? If not please skip these questions. b. Do you employ and manage your own agents, or do you outsource to a third party? If you outsource who to? c. How many contact centre agents do you have? d. Do agents work from home? Or just your offices? e. Please confirm the manufacturer of your contact centre system(s) that are currently in place? f. When is your contract renewal date? g. Who maintains your contact centre system(s)? 2. CRM a. Do you use a CRM in the contact centre? What platform is used? b. Do you use the same CRM for the rest of the organisation? What platform is used? c. Do you use a knowledge base / knowledge management platform? What platform is used? 3. AI & Automation a. Does your organisation have a customer or citizen facing chatbot? If so, who provides this chatbot technology? b. Does your organisation utilise RPA technology? If so which RPA technology provider do you use?

We answered

TfL Ref: FOI-0947-2425

 

Thank you for your request which we received on 21 June 2024, asking for information about TfL’s communication systems and technology. 

 

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.  I can confirm that we hold some of the information you require. 

 

Please find responses to your questions in the attached spreadsheet. 

 

If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for any reason, please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed. 

 

Yours sincerely

 

Eva Hextall 

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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