The deal aims to enable the day-to-day operation of the Commonwealth Treasury and the production of critical government policy, including the Federal Budget. With responsibility for informing Australia's macro- and micro-economic future, the Treasury required a means of improving the delivery of services and applications to its ministerial and administrative employees, and running day-to-day systems. Following a comprehensive evaluation of networking technology based on government eligibility criteria, Treasury commenced a staged progression to implement the Avaya SDN Fx architecture to replace its legacy network infrastructure.