Virgin Media Business

Virgin Media Business has the UK’s only nationwide fibre optic network and already runs past the front door of 85 per cent of UK businesses. We have the ability to connect to all organisations and are the largest business-to-business brand in the Virgin group, priding ourselves on delivering innovative and high quality solutions.

Staff are located at 40 offices across the country, meaning that Virgin Media Business really is closer to its customers. Organisations working with Virgin Media Business include London City Airport, Nottingham Building Society, Arqiva, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Partnership and South West Water.

We have an excellent track record of helping Local Government to transform public services and are proud of our long established partnerships and respected reputation with many local authorities, allowing us to have a clearer insight into Local Government than most. Maybe that's why we work with over 200 of the local authorities that are located on our network.

Helping you transform public services

Virgin Media Business has been instrumental in developing the Public Sector Network (PSN) over several years, working closely with the Cabinet Office, industry, and across the Public Sector, defining how the PSN will operate.

The Public Sector Network continues to underpin the Government’s ICT strategy. By delivering cost savings, improving access and delivery of public services and supporting the ‘shared services’ initiative, PSN is working towards Government central policies such as Digital Britain.

The Public Sector Network will connect you, other organisations and the citizens you serve through a ‘network of networks’. It’ll be easy to share information and access any network service that’s needed. Departments and organisations will be able to share existing services and look after their communities better too.

What we’re doing

Virgin Media Business is a candidate GCN Service Provider, and Robert Parker, Head of Public Sector Network development at Virgin Media Business, holds the Deputy Chair position on the Public Sector Network Governing Body (the industry trade association which represents the PSN supplier community).

We also sit on the GCN Governing Body. We provide the core connectivity which sits at the heart of the Public Sector Network. London Grid for Learning (LGfL), a consortium of all 33 Local Authorities across London is a Public Sector organisation which will benefit from our Next Generation Network, through our GCN. LGfL is launching the new LondonPSN, which will provide a secure and comprehensive communications infrastructure, serving the needs of up to 2,800 schools and other public bodies across the region.

Understanding Public Sector Network and the impact it will have on your organisation becomes increasingly important as it becomes more widely adopted. That’s the reason we’ve put ourselves at the centre of this Cabinet Office-led programme. We have representation in all six work streams across the programme;

• Technical
• Service Management
• Governance
• Commercial
• Information Assurance
• Transition

This keeps us at the heart of emerging Public Sector Network standards which we continuously feed directly into our customer deployments. This way, we can offer you reassurance that your network services are future proof and primed for PSN.

Dundee City Council Case Study
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