Many companies and government institutions  invest in management solutions with complete set of management  functions. 

	Resource monitoring of potential problems before the systems is disrupted  -
	Control over all government  IT resources with a fully integrated view of the whole environment.
	Accountability through powerful technology that is affordable, easy to install and easy for the user:
	The agility to anticipate and solve problems before they become critical  are the considerations  made  to attain this objective.

The rise of killer applications like  internet/Intranet, video conferencing have overloaded many network.  

We will use ATM, or Asynchronous Transfer Mode, with the ability to provide significant bandwidth improvement, is widely accepted as the best networking solutions for this adaptation - interconnection convergence capability..  ATM has assumed strategic importance in the evolution of  Virtual private network (VPN's).    With both CPU and disk capacity of servers growing so fast, ATM is one of the few technology that can keep up with it's growth.  

This initiative  is imperative considering that the    (NGI) Internet2  is just in the corner.

The Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative is a multi-agency Federal research and development program that is developing advanced networking technologies, developing revolutionary applications that require advanced networking, and demonstrating these capabilities on testbeds that are 100 to 1,000 times faster end-to-end than today’s Internet.

ATM is very useful on a centralize servers.  ATM improves bandwidth for servers because it supports multiple virtual connections on one physical link.   When several clients are requesting for data over the same connection into a server, the server can respond to all of them, interweaving traffic destined for different clients.   Beyond that ATM can standardized approach in connecting peripherals to the network.  

Internet.  Intranet,  Extranet

Basically, it's all about building a wide area network to get together resources of the government so they can share managed risks, information and reach the remote places so that they can better serve the entire community at hand. 

We leverage internet to save cost to access distant   home-servers and so that the public can access them for different services needed.

The intranet is a good mechanism for government to share vital information to do it's job on protecting our community.  Through resource sharing, police officers may be able to solve crime expeditiously.  This would require the security mechanism like password, encryption and so forth, also discussed.

And finally the Extranet, so that the government can interact with their suppliers and to make the government bidding process more transparent and efficiently.   All paperwork's will be automated and it's processing time will greatly be cut down from 30 days to 8 days and small cart shopping procedure can be reduced from 2 weeks to 3 days.   These is the same platform where the government can make use of the POS. mechanism-acceptance of credit cards.

The hardware discussed herewith on such government I.T. Infrastructures are well tested on it's efficiency and are manufactured by reputable U.S. companies.like Oracle, Cisco, The Micro Sun Federal Inc.,   Kodak,   Cornerstone Imaging,    IBM,  Netrust,   RSA Inc. and other third party entities which are essential and are integral part of the group,    together will build the  complete I.T. Infrastructure solutions.

The application software is the key and the very heart of the package and is being over emphasize here because these are proprietary  programming codes  made by  programmers from US colleges and universities and were funded by the Federal Government for beta testing on Police, Military's Department of Defense and other government agencies.  It made  their operation more  efficient and more responsive to their constituents.   The best point made here is that these applications  can fully integrate and run on different platforms and are geared for   standardization procedures in Geneva, Switzerland and will soon be adopted worldwide.

While so many companies writes programs to better suit their   client"s need, like the commercial SAP and the others.  I believe going with the above-mentioned program applications  is the right choice,  not only because these students have not even thought of making money when it was earlier   conceptualized but also  has greatly been modified through the successful   applications  of it with the Federal agencies, who have tested it and were impressed by it.

Having introduced a total   I.T. Infrastructure solutions to the afore-mentioned goals of the  Philippine government,  the issue of   security and it's Certification Authority, as an implementing body will still have to be resolved.  It  greatly hinders the e-business growth because banks   are wary to extend loans on a real estate collateral because of fraud,  or retail  merchant can not accept  credit cards,  because banks would not let them transact online, thereby losing 40% of their potential sales.  (Figures from Bank of America.).

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