In accordance with the executive work plan of the e-Government Program "YESSER", a Communications Network for e-Government Transactions had to be established by YESSER Program. Such a network has been envisioned to interconnect Government Agencies with the e-Government Data Center which has been established with Highest international technical and security standards to be used as a host for the e-Government National Portal "Saudi" and the e-Government Program "YESSER". This network has enabled the e-Government Data Center to be the effective, cost-saving and unifying Link for interconnecting all Government Agencies with one another.

Objectives:

•  Unifying the Mechanism of reliably, yet effectively interconnecting and linking Government Agencies.
•  Providing higher speeds in data-transportation.
•  Providing a confidential and secure medium for data-transportation.
•  Easy future expansions as per requirements of each stage in addition that such expansions can be applied to any types of data among Government Agencies.

Interconnection standards:

•   Government Agencies with independent budgets.
•   Government Agencies that offer e-Services through Government Services Bus (GSB).
•   Government Agencies that utilize e-Services offered through Government Services Bus (GSB).
•   Government Agencies that offer e-Services directly, not being interconnected to the GSB, yet such e-Services are legally binding to all other Government Agencies.

Currently interconnected services:

• Government Services Bus services.
•  Private payments voucher (Ministry of Finance).
•  SADAD system (Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency.
• Government e-Services

Classification of Agencies:

Category (A):
-Agencies that provide e-Services to GSB.
-Agencies that provide e-Services that are legally binding to all Government Agencies.
-Agencies that provide critically important e-Services.
-Agencies that provide e-Services with high rates of usages.
Category (B):
-Agencies that provide moderately important e-Services.
-Agencies that provide e-Services with moderate rates of usage.
-Agencies that make benefits of e-Services with high rates of usage.
Category (C):
-Agencies that provide moderately e-Services with limited importance.
-Agencies that provide e-Services with limited usage rates.
-Agencies that make benefits of e-Services with moderate rates of usage.
Category (D):
-Agencies that make benefits of e-Services with limited rates of usage.

Public agencies linked with the Government Secure Network GSN

List of government agencies in the process of being connected to GSN

 *Phase 2

Services offered:

• Make hardware available
• Make circuits available
• Equipment.
• Circuits.
•  Network security Center.
•  Control and Monitoring Center.
• Network Management and Operation Center.
• Service Quality level Agreement*: Class (A): 99.99% - Class (B): 99.9% - Class (C): 99.6%