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The Interior Department has been formally established and today launches its official website at interior.gov.vin, where guidance on shared infrastructure and departmental facilities will be published.

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  • Register of Sites Published

    The Department has published the Register of Sites, recording the twelve sites and routes transferred into common holding by members, together with the principal plant installed at each.

  • Service Standard for Shared Infrastructure Adopted

    A single service standard now applies to every site and route on the register, setting availability targets, fault response times and inspection intervals for each class of shared infrastructure.

  • Departmental Facilities Open for Booking

    Meeting rooms, the assembly hall, exercise floors, training rooms and secure stores at departmental premises may be booked by members from today, without charge, on ten working days' notice.

About the Department

Infrastructure, land and facilities of the Velocity Interoperability Network.

The Department holds the relay sites, exchange points, data halls and cabling shared by member organisations, manages the land on which they stand, and makes departmental premises available to members.

About the Department

A relay mast and equipment hut on a snow-covered hillside
Photo: MD Arif Jawed

Services

  • Infrastructure

    Relay sites, exchange points, data halls and cabling shared by members of the Network.

  • Register of Sites

    The sites and routes held by the Department, with their class, status and principal plant.

  • Service Standard

    Availability targets, fault response times and inspection intervals for each class of infrastructure.

  • Planned Works

    The schedule of works affecting shared infrastructure, and how members notify their own works.

  • Land and Wayleaves

    The land on which shared infrastructure stands, and the wayleaves granted to members across it.

  • Facilities

    Departmental premises available to members, and how to book them.

The Department in figures

Register of Sites
4
Classes of shared infrastructure
12
Sites and routes on the register
14
Rooms, floors and stores available to members
99.9%
Minimum availability under the service standard

In focus

  • Register of Sites

    Every site and route held by the Department, with its class, status and principal plant.

  • Facilities

    Meeting rooms, an assembly hall, exercise floors and training rooms, available to members without charge.