[CAnet - news] Customer Owned Fiber Networks saves Hospitals money

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[More detailed information on why NY Presbyterian decided to acquire their
own fiber and deploy their own DWDM system.  Some excerpts from original
article - BSA] 

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/051605-presbyterian.html


DWDM is the right RX for New York Presbyterian Hospital

New York Presbyterian Hospital has dumped its WAN service provider and lit
up leased dark fiber with dense wavelength division multiplexing gear that
saves money and enables the hospital to grow its network as it adds more
high-bandwidth applications.

Leasing fiber from a New York-area network consortium for research and
educational organizations, rather than buying network services from Verizon,
provides more bandwidth and saves the hospital $151,000 per year, according
to Leo Bodden, director of the hospital's network group. Adding more and
faster lasers with its new optical gear give it nearly unlimited bandwidth
for future needs.

With two strands of fiber, the hospital uses 21 wavelengths to provide
connections ranging from 10G Ethernet to Fibre Channel on a core network
stretching 41 miles around New York City. The network can support up to 32
separate 10G bit/sec wavelengths - enough bandwidth for a long time, Bodden
says.

The addition of high-bandwidth traffic, including medical imaging, a
mirrored data center and storage-area networking (SAN ), have pushed the
limits of New York Presbyterian's network since 1999.
[..]
The hospital bought in to the NYSERNET proposal and pays NYSERNET $542,000
per year for the fiber, Bodden says. That's down from the $693,000 it paid
Verizon last year for its OC-3 network that had been supplemented with DS-3s
until the new network came online earlier this year.

The Adva DWDM gear cost $1.5 million to buy, as opposed to the other bid the
hospital got - $4 million for Cisco 15454 optical gear. 

So far the hospital has lit up 21 wavelengths on the network, two at 10G
bit/sec, others at 1G carrying 10G Ethernet and Fibre Channel. Bandwidth can
be boosted by increasing laser speed or adding more lasers, Bodden says.
Fiber solves hospital bandwidth crunch
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