[CAnet - news] New York-Presbyterian Hospital deploys custoner owned optical network

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[Another good example of how large institutions such as hospitals are
acquiring dark fiber and deploying their own optical networks. Many hospital
complexes around the world are pursuing similar strategies. With the advent
of such networks the future business challenge for traditional service
providers is not in providing central managed metro telecom services, but
finding ways to enable the interconnection of these optical islands on a
peer to peer basis. Some excerpts from Adva press release -- BSA]


"Cost avoidance and the many new high-bandwidth applications currently under
consideration by the hospital played a major factor in our decision," said
Aurelia Boyer, Senior Vice President (SVP)/Chief Information Officer (CIO),
Information Services, New York-Presbyterian Hospital. "By making the
decision now to deploy DWDM, we have removed network bandwidth as a concern
for such new applications, and at the same time, we are effectively
levelling future bandwidth costs at what they are today. And that's very
appealing, given the steady rise in our bandwidth budget over the last five
years."


New York-Presbyterian Hospital has deployed ADVA's FSP 3000 systems at its
Manhattan campus locations, including data centers and patient care
facilities, and multiple spur sites have been connected in a ring and
logical mesh network measuring 50 kilometers in circumference and enhanced
with Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) modules. With DWDM technology,
these sites are transporting up to 32 channels of native-speed 10 Gigabit
Ethernet and Fibre Channel traffic without procuring additional strands of
optical fiber along the network ring.

 

The hospital's applications include leading-edge Picture Archiving and
Communication System (PACS), in which radiology and cardiology images are
digitally stored, manipulated and shared across the sites; live telemetry
data over network for physiological monitoring; system/application high
availability including Fibre Channel disc mirroring, in which data is
synchronously written to each of hospitals' data centers to ensure business
continuity in the event of failure at one or the other of the sites; and
cost-effective Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), connecting the
enterprise to multiple New York City carrier Points of Presence (PoPs). 

 



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