Ceará opens licitation for VoIP service

In next day 9 to May, the Government of the State of the Ceará will launch notice with invitation to bid to renew the Net Governmental of Data and Images (Regov), infrastructure that establishs connection the public agencies. The project foresees the implementation of the voice service goes up IP and installation of one all backbone in the State, following the adopted model already in Pernambuco.

Values and stated periods of the contract had not been divulged. Currently, the Ceará is taken care of by the operator Telemar (Grupo Oi), but the contract is successful in July since year.

The Etice (company of Technology of the Information of the Ceará) will be the responsible one for the licitation of the Regov. According to Fernando Carvalho Gomes, director of the Etice, the State of the Ceará intends to modernize all the public net with telephony for the Internet, also using resources of the Skype and video under demand. With the new net, Gomes advances the possibility to introduce digital TV on IP.

The pertaining to the state of Ceará public universities already use service IP in videoconferência (video and voice) for international linkings. The proposal is to extend to the solution other nets and to add the Skype in local linkings.

Another initiative of the Ceará is the union of the technological polar regions northeasterns. René Teixeira Barreira, secretary of the Secretariat of Science and Technology of the State of the Ceará (Socitece), will present in the InfoBrasil event, that happens between days 23 and 26 of May, in $fortaleza, the base of the program of regional cooperation.


Source: IDG Now

Ceará opens licitation for VoIP service