There's a fiber-optic Gigabit Ethernet backbone with 100Mbps desktop connections throughout, nearly 100 SIP-compatible IP telephones and associated switching gear, and incoming trunk lines from all across Victoria.

With an entire floor of the NITSC building available as serviced office space, the site could potentially become the operations center for a government organization displaced by a disaster. NEC's history in managing Victorian government desktops, combined with the integration of live links from the site into departments' own data centers, would smooth the transition from one site to another, with the ample computing resources at NITSC providing necessary IT support.

"Brought together, this is a hosted convergence model that bridges across all of the existing disparate areas of transport," Purcell said. "If the center is functioning in its third iteration as a contingency disaster recovery site, they need user profile portability from the government back into that site. The only way that can happen is if they're part of our hosted regime. By pulling back profiles [to the new site] it will complete the portability loop for government agencies."