Science & Technology
Science and Technology
Science and Technology
Tue, January 27, 2009
Mon, January 26, 2009
Aruba Networks, Inc.: Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Selects Aruba Networks to Enable Advanced Wirele
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - January 27, 2009) - Aruba Networks, Inc. (
"The Aruba wireless network supports 2,500 healthcare professionals who now have reliable, secure access to Electronic Patient Records and Picture Archiving Communications Systems (PACS)," said Pete Marsh MBE, Technical Director for Wirral Health Informatics Service. "Our staff deal with sensitive, time-critical data all day, and immediate access is essential. We now send PACS data securely and reliably to clinicians' mobile devices, improving efficiency, reducing the risk of transcription errors, and ensuring that compliance protocols are met. As a result both acute and primary care is delivered to patients with greater speed and accuracy than ever before."
Aruba's patent-pending Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) technology lowers Wi-Fi deployment and maintenance costs by automating site surveys and using infrastructure-based controls to optimize the performance of Wi-Fi clients in real-time. Acting on their own, Wi-Fi clients do not always work cooperatively with other clients, or select the optimal band, channel, and access point. These issues are exacerbated in settings with densely packed users such as large hospitals, lecture halls and libraries. ARM uses a variety of techniques to control how Wi-Fi clients interact, thereby helping to ensure that data, voice, and video applications have sufficient network resources to operate properly. The result is that end-users enjoy a better wireless experience.
Aruba's centralized architecture delivers switch-like performance and lowers IT operating expenses by simplifying network set-up, expansion, and updates. Whether managing a single campus or a multi-national enterprise, the centralized architecture delivers exceptional performance yet requires minimal IT staff overhead to manage.
"The Trust has a long history of innovation in the field of mobile healthcare technologies, including early wireless systems and wearable computers, so the bar was set quite high for the new wireless infrastructure," said Bob Vickers, Aruba's UK sales director. "Aruba's centralized management and high security made the network easy to install and configure, and ensured that privacy was maintained for patient-related data. The end result is an increase in staff efficiency and a better patient experience."
About Aruba Networks
People move. Networks must follow. Aruba securely delivers networks to users, wherever they work or roam. Our mobility solutions enable the Follow-Me Enterprise that moves in lock-step with users:
-- Adaptive 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi networks optimize themselves to ensure that users are always within reach of mission-critical information; -- Identity-based security assigns access policies to users, enforcing those policies whenever and wherever a network is accessed; -- Remote networking solutions ensure uninterrupted access to applications as users move; -- Multi-vendor network management provides a single point of control while managing both legacy and new wireless networks from Aruba and its competitors.
The cost, convenience, and security benefits of our secure mobility solutions are fundamentally changing how and where we work. Listed on the NASDAQ and Russell 2000® Index, Aruba is based in Sunnyvale, California, and has operations throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions. To learn more, visit Aruba at [ http://www.arubanetworks.com ].
About Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Wirral University Teaching Hospital is one of the biggest and busiest acute U.K. National Health Service trusts in northwest England, with a budget of £280m and a workforce of almost 6,000 staff. The trust provides acute healthcare services to 400,000 people annually across the Wirral peninsula, Ellesmere Port and Neston from its Arrowe Park Hospital, Clatterbridge Hospital, Victoria Central Hospital, and St Catherine's Community Hospital.
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