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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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Brocade healthcare solutions enable medical facilities to protect patient information, and provide secure 24/7 access to applications and data. As a result, healthcare providers can deliver faster, more accurate health assessments, while adhering to government regulations (such as HIPAA in the US) for information exchange and protection.

While accommodating the medical staff's need to utilize more demanding and sophisticated applications, the healthcare network must ensure patient privacy and protect against malicious attacks and Denial of Service (DoS) threats.

The challenges lie in providing security and proper access control, while maintaining the flexibility to accommodate future application needs. To accomplish this, healthcare providers must take a holistic approach to data and network security by utilizing capabilities such as:

  • Firewall protection
  • Intrusion prevention
  • Network access control
  • Denial of Service (DoS) mitigation

Healthcare providers are increasingly required to support a variety of devices and users in both wired and mobile networks. Protecting data and applications from intruders and malware, and adhering to government regulations requires an innovative, highly secure network infrastructure.

Healthcare providers face the following challenges:

  • Unauthorized access to data and applications
  • Data deletion/modification/corruption from malware
  • DoS attacks against critical applications
  • Natural and manmade disasters
  • Data and application access for mobile devices

The solutions to address these challenges require:

  • High-performance, secure networking infrastructure
  • High availability of applications and data
  • A holistic approach to protecting data and applications from malicious software and DoS attacks
  • Encryption of patient records

This will lead to the following benefits:

  • Secure, non-stop patient services
  • "Always-on" access to information and applications
  • Reduced operational costs
  • Compliance with government regulations, such as HIPAA in the US

Brocade healthcare solutions combine resilient networking infrastructure with high-performance host and network security solutions from world-class partners. Hospitals around the world are utilizing providing secure, cost-effective patient care with Brocade and ecosystem partner solutions to securely provide patient care, while reducing the cost of delivering sophisticated and flexible services.

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Ekahau and Brocade help improve hospital workflow, staff productivity, and safety by enabling real-time tracking and managing of assets, staff, and visitors.

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The medical clinic associated with the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, took a multi-phase approach to upgrading its network. The clinic has invested more than $1.5 million in the network and today has a high-speed Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) backbone that supports cur-rent doctor, staff, and patient use—as well as future network growth.

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Community Hospital of Long Beach is saving $1 million annually while enabling flexible, mobile patient care thanks to its upgraded networking infrastructure.

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Government Employee’s Health Association (GEHA) redesigns network with Brocade Ethernet Fabric technology, simplifying management and increasing network scalability and flexibility.

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Software developer creates healthcare applications more quickly and efficiently while keeping networking operations and capital expenses at a minimum

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As the existing network aged out, network administrators recognized that it was time to upgrade the infrastructure to support current and more innovative technologies that would move the hos-pital forward on its mission of excellence. Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis sought a faster, high-performance networking partner that could deliver a reliable, scalable solution—with compre-hensive and user-friendly management tools. The hospital found that partner with Brocade.

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Brocade enables a regional medical center to deliver quality patient care while meeting growing data storage needs and compliance requirements

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Managing large distributed WLANs within the difficult environment of healthcare poses unique challenges. Unlike wired networks, WLANs have to operate in a shared wireless medium that is constantly changing. This document examines how to maximize availability to critical wireless applications.

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Using the intelligent PoE/PoE+ capabilities of the Brocade FastIron family can ensure last-minute power to critical devices while saving operating costs.

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Brocade is taking groundbreaking performance and reliability from the data center and extending it across the entire network all the way to the edge. Now, superior performance can be maximized across the entire campus network, giving you a more managed and efficient approach to growth.

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While 802.11n wireless networks let enterprises create a seamless working environment by combining the mobility of wireless with the performance of wired networks, the best ways for deploying 802.11n—while minimizing acquisition and operational costs—may still be unclear.

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The Brocade® Mobility product family combines Wireless LAN (WLAN) access point and controller-based security services with wireless intrusion prevention to offer a unified suite of security capabilities, which not only deliver a more robust threat defense but also lower the total cost of implementing and maintaining a secure wireless network.

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This business-level white paper describes how Brocade Professional Services can help organizations optimize their existing networks while transitioning to a dynamic next-generation IP network infrastructure.

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Technological advances and trends, including improvements in WLAN performance and security, are encouraging IT administrators to consider wireless networks as a core part of every enterprise network. By simplifying wired and wireless deployment through integrated, end-to-end solutions, companies can significantly increase productivity and save costs to achieve unified and robust communications.

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New features in Brocade Fabric OS 7.0 help increase SAN security in enterprise environments to better protect sensitive data.