Wifi Revolution

Draeger Medical Systems, Inc. and Aruba Networks (News - Alert), Inc., A developer of wireless LANs and secure unified mobility solutions, have entered into a technology solution provider agreement for medical network and bandwidth management. Under the agreements, the companies will be taking up joint marketing programs.

Aruba has issued a Compatible Partner interoperability rating to Draeger's Infinity OneNet solution, and Draeger Medical has qualified Aruba's Multi-Service Mobility Controllers and access points for use in the OneNet solution.

 

"Infinity OneNet allows vital patient monitoring information to be sent over Wi-Fi networks using Aruba's bandwith management, QoS, and security features," said Peter Mongroo, Aruba Global Healthcare Marketing. "Aruba's unique traffic management technology ensures that bandwith will be made available for patient monitoring data, while our Compatible Partner interoperability rating provides assurance to integrators and end users that the Draeger and Aruba products have been tested to work well together."

 

Security enforcement at the Application and Physical level by the Aruba infrastructure ensures that data collected from patient monitors is completely secure throughout the transmission, while built-in QoS capabilities ensure that sensitive real-time data are protected against latency and jitter.

 

Bandwidth management allows hospitals to dynamically allocate bandwidth to individual or groups of high-priority devices, such as Draeger's Infinity Patient Monitors. When patient monitors are not present, Aruba automatically frees reserved bandwidth for other uses.

 

"This agreement reinforces our commitment to standards-based technology that supports clinical efficacy and simplifies the lives of hospital IT managers," said Steve Menet, Director, Enterprise Patient Monitoring and IT of Draeger Medical, Inc. "The OneNet solution represents a new way of thinking about patient monitoring networks and Aruba enables the system to operate very efficiently from a price/performance perspective."

 

 

 

Back to WiFi Revolution home