ALLIED Telesis Secure, Intelligent Infrastructure for Healthcare User Manual
Solutions Guide | Healthcare
Secure, Intelligent Infrastructure for Healthcare
Solutions | Healthcare
Executive Summary
At Allied Telesis, we know that healthcare providers must:
▶ Provide safe, affordable, and accessible care
▶ Provide faster and more thorough diagnosis and treatment
▶ Improve and enhance the patient experience
▶ Harness network technology to improve collaboration and
decision making processes used by caregivers and experts
▶ Provide services that are both cost-effective and of the
highest quality
▶ Maintain easy and fast access to information
▶ Improve caregiver efficiency by facilitating streamlined
workflow
▶ Decrease medical errors
▶ Provide comfort, distraction and entertainment to minimize
patient distress.
The Allied Telesis healthcare solution provides:
▶▶ Resiliency
Minimize the risk of downtime by using a number of different
capabilities to provide total network redundancy
▶▶ Security
Protect your network from external or internal attack,
adhere to strict privacy laws and provide total patient
confidentiality
▶▶ High▶performance
Harness network technology to enhance the speed and
accuracy of all your information sharing, collaboration and
decision making processes.
▶▶ Future-proofing
Easily expand your network as your business grows
▶▶ Value-added▶services
Offer distractions and entertainment to improve the patient
experience. Provide your patients with bedside Interactive
TVs — email, web, satellite TV and movies, audio, surveys,
patient information and third-party services.
Healthcare needs and objectives
Healthcare has come a long way in the last century. Medical
science and patient treatment are advancing at an astonishing
rate, and professional healthcare providers have to keep up in an
environment that is growing more complex every day.
As a healthcare provider, you must supply the best possible
patient care at the best possible price, harness evolving
technologies, maintain an extremely high level of network
security to protect confidential patient information, and sustain
increasing numbers of patients and staff. Resiliency is key to avoid
potentially life-threatening network downtime. High performance
is essential for both your Picture Archiving and Communications
System (PACS) image-management system, and for the digitizing
and storing of all patient files and records as Electronic Medical
Records (EMR). Then there are the usual business objectives —
maintaining and improving organizational efficiency, increasing
profitability, and meeting regulatory requirements.
Finding a network that meets all your needs can seem like an
impossible task — but with an Allied Telesis solution that is
tailored for your organization, it is both achievable and simple.
Why Allied Telesis?
Allied Telesis is an industry leader in networking solutions. With
our proven history of delivering highly reliable and featurerich advanced network solutions, more and more healthcare
institutions are turning to Allied Telesis to achieve their objectives.
At Allied Telesis, we are committed to providing the resiliency,
security, and high performance you need for your healthcare
network, both now and well into the future. Our products
meet your requirements for a robust and scalable solution,
whilst still working within your budget. Our healthcare solution
provides you with resiliency, high-availability, security, productivity,
interoperability, flexibility, plus many value-added services.
Read on to learn how Allied Telesis can provide enhanced
operations for your healthcare organization.
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Achieve optimal resiliency and
eliminate network downtime
In today’s busy healthcare environment, patient diagnosis and
treatment can be extremely time-critical. Network downtime is
not just an annoyance — it can be a life-threatening event.
Your healthcare business needs a resilient network, which offers
optimal resiliency to minimize the risk of dangerous and costly
downtime. Today’s healthcare network must support any number
of recent and emerging technologies, such as IP telephony
for voice communication, and content networking for video
distribution, as well as electronic patient records that combine
medical data, handwritten notes, verbal records, and images. Any
failure in your network can result in your entire network being
impaired, which can in turn impede the delivery of potentially lifecritical applications and data.
Allied Telesis healthcare solutions utilize a number of different
sophisticated high-availability features. Our products work
together to provide a robust and reliable network with maximum
resiliency, ensuring traffic flow continues even during outages.
The result is a resilient network, from the core to the edge — to
easily deliver your video and medical imaging files as well as video,
VoIP, and traditional IP traffic. This not only ensures minimum user
downtime, but also allows your staff to work in collaboration to
improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your patient care.
“The major reason for selecting Allied Telesis for the
network upgrade was their proven experience in the
market. The SwitchBlade® met all of the requirements
for the core of the new LAN, such as the ability to
forward high capacity graphical content, high reliability
and a comprehensive feature set.”
Mr. Horiguchi, System Sales Manager,
San Esu Management Systems (SEMS),
Kushiro City Medical Hospital
Resiliency Benefits
■ Seamless traffic flow
■ High performance at the core of your network
■ Higher bandwidth, and optimum use of available
bandwidth
■ Optimal network speed
■ Ensure continued delivery of essential services
■ Reduced risk of network outage
■ Continued service even in the event of a power supply
failure
Allied Telesis Advanced Resiliency Features
▶■ Virtual▶Chassis▶Stacking▶(VCStack™)
VCStack provides uninterrupted network service,
and delivers chassis-like resiliency and redundancy
features without the high price tag. Combined with
Link Aggregation, VCStack provides a superior network core
solution.
▶■ Link▶Aggregation
Link Aggregation provides resiliency with higher performance,
since it utilizes your full network bandwidth. Failover is immediate,
as the switch (or Virtual Chassis) almost instantly adapts its
forwarding process in the event of the loss of a link.
▶■ Ethernet▶Protection▶Switching▶Ring▶(EPSRing™)
EPSR allows Allied Telesis products to form a
protected ring of switches with as little as 50ms
failover. A multiple-ring EPSR network can provide
extremely high performance throughout your network.
▶■ Built-in▶power▶redundancy
Built-in power redundancy guarantees the continued delivery of
essential services. Many of our key products reduce the risk of
network outage by allowing for two PSUs to be installed, when
only one is required to power the device.
▶■ Hot▶swappable▶Power▶Supply▶Units▶(PSUs)
PSUs can be easily removed and replaced with no interruption
to the network. Using two separate power sources (feed
redundancy) provides even more power redundancy to the
network.
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