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Healthcare Network Solutions

When the mission holds lives in the balance, the network is Brocade.

Brocade networks enable healthcare organizations to deliver safe, accessible care to their patients while increasing operating efficiency and reducing costs.

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Today, healthcare is typically delivered by multidisciplinary teams consisting of doctors, nurses, social workers, insurers, pharmacists, therapists, and others. These care teams are distributed and need more effective ways to collaborate in order to provide high-quality healthcare services. Their needs include keeping up with the latest developments, coordinating with other care team members, and managing administrative tasks. Moreover, all of these tasks must be performed in full compliance with patient privacy requirements.

Collaboration Services Critical to Healthcare:

  • VoIP and unified messaging
    With VoIP and unified messaging, caregivers can have voice mail forwarded to portable devices and listen at anytime, or archive the voice mail for compliance reasons or validation at a later date.
  • Unified Communications (UC)
    Unified communications provide caregivers with cost-effective and time-saving communications tools that help them access and share information in real time and across distributed areas.
  • Wireless mobility services
    Healthcare is a highly mobile business, with caregivers always busy attending to patients. Wireless mobility services enable them to get real-time information on each patient's condition and respond quickly no matter where they are.
  • Video conferencing
    Video conferencing enables caregivers in multiple locations to participate in interactive meetings and training sessions in real-time, and access recorded meetings and training sessions on demand.

Collaboration Services Network Infrastructure Challenge

  • The network must be capable of running advanced video collaboration and conferencing services while maintaining high levels of service for all applications.
  • The consolidated network infrastructure must support data flow to the variety of devices used to provide patient care.
  • Reliable, highly available networks must be able to support both mission-critical care delivery and UC data streams using a common network infrastructure.

Brocade Solution

  • Optimized wired/wireless network infrastructure for UC
  • Validated joint VoIP and UC solutions with Avaya, ShoreTel, and Microsoft
  • End-to-end network security with McAfee, IBM ISS, Symantec

Brocade Solution Benefits

  • Unified wired/wireless communications to improve productivity and reduce operational costs
  • Scalable network edge capacity for WLANs to support future growth while protecting investments
  • Optimized performance with minimizing power and deployment costs
  • Maximum network security with intrusion detection capabilities across both wireless and wired networks

Brocade networking solutions enable innovative healthcare applications, increased efficiencies, and better patient care. As a result, healthcare providers benefit from a lower total cost of ownership due to ease of migration, scalability, training, and support for the full lifecycle of their network investments.

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