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Having a flexible, efficient and ubiquitous network is a fundamental part of the city's strategy, since
the access of citizens, companies and other actors must be guaranteed with adequate security and
availability measures.

The design and operation of a private, convergent communications network (municipal corporate
network) together with virtual private network services offered by telecommunications operators,
offers, in the medium-term, lower operating, administration and maintenance costs in addition to
the essential security needs in an SSC environment.

City ICT systems are the key elements that allow municipalities to support relationships with citizens
and administrative systems. At this point, there are different transformation approaches. A pragmatic
approach of many cities to this transformation has been to make legacy systems coexist with new
cloud-based solutions (private, on-site or public) building an architecture based on microservices
and containers. Chapter 6 describes the city IT ecosystem in detail.

The city platform, the e-government platform, the municipal database, and the geographic
information system would make up this basic core (city IT core) on which administrative information
services, citizen services, as well as interconnection services with other external stakeholders would
be developed.

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