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October 13, 2009

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Selects Aruba Networks

By Anil Sharma, TMCnet Contributor

U.K.-based Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has selected Aruba Networks to support the use of mobile applications at the Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General Hospitals.



 
Aruba officials said that the company’s 802.11n high-speed networks have also been deployed in the administrative offices of NHS Gloucestershire to support data access, wireless VoIP and guest connectivity.
 
After conducting an extensive technical review of single and multi-channel wireless LANs, the Trust found Aruba’s adaptive multi-channel WiFi (News - Alert) to be more scalable, its Adaptive Radio Management easier to deploy and its network more easily managed than competing systems.
 
“Our priority is to deliver an infrastructure that enables improvement in clinical care,” said Steve Edwards, head of IT development services at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in a statement.
 
Edwards said that it is generally recognized that mobile access to applications and services improves efficiency in a clinical environment -- saving several hours a week of clinical time. That equates to clinicians seeing more patients, spending more time with patients and patients spending less time waiting for treatment.
 
He said that the Aruba network is the cornerstone of a flexible IT infrastructure that allows the trust to deploy mobile applications based on imaging (PACS), data (administration applications) or VoIP.
 
“Aruba won our technical evaluation on all points,” said Edwards, adding that in practice, the Aruba equipment is ‘self contained’ in that it goes in and works the first time. It doesn’t need any tweaking by the staff, and as a result has a low total cost of ownership.
 
From an architectural viewpoint, ARM (News - Alert) is a better solution than a single channel model, both with regard to interference mitigation and because it’s standards based and not proprietary, he added.
 
Edwards said that the proof is in the deployment results – the implementation team find the Aruba wireless LAN easy to deploy, highly reliable, and readily scalable.
 
“Gloucestershire Hospitals’ experience is proof positive that Aruba can lower the IT overhead and life cycle costs of a wireless LAN,” said Bob Vickers, sales director for Aruba Networks (News - Alert) U.K. and Ireland.
 
Vickers said that new access points can be added as and wherever needed, and the network infrastructure will automatically ensure that they work optimally. This frees the IT staff to work on other projects, while the wireless network looks after itself, he added.
 
Recently TMCnet reported that the Arts et Métiers ParisTech had deployed Aruba’s adaptive wireless solutions at its Aix-en-Provence, Angers, Bordeaux, Châlons-en-Champagne, Chambéry, Cluny, Lille, Metz, Chalon-sur-Saône and Paris campuses. 

Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anil’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Marisa Torrieri


 







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