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Newbridge Networks Provides Switched Routing Solution for St. Paul's Hospital, Linking Seven Vancouver Healthcare Network Facilities into a Single Entity
Business Wire - August 12, 1998 14:48
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KANATA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 1998--Newbridge (TSE:NNC.) (NYSE:NN) Newbridge Solution Enables Delivery of High-Quality, Competitive Healthcare Services.
Newbridge Networks today announced that it has been selected to install the high-performance Newbridge(R) VIVID(TM) Switched Routing system at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. The networking solution will enable St. Paul's to provide high-quality, competitive healthcare services to the six other healthcare facilities that comprise the Providence Health Care consortium and the thousands of individuals it serves.
By seamlessly linking Providence Health Care's communications facilities into a single entity, the network enables physicians and other healthcare workers located in various facilities to instantaneously access and share a wide range of information, including detailed electronic medical records, regardless of the time of day. Other applications made possible by the Newbridge solution include: telemedicine; on-line training of healthcare personnel; the conversion of lab manuals and other documentation into web pages for healthcare employees; and convenient, "transportable" patient records, which eliminate the need for individuals to complete new forms each time they visit a different facility.
St. Paul's selected Newbridge Networks to provide the switched routing solution because of the Company's knowledge and understanding of the changing healthcare environment and its implications on internetworking requirements. As more and more hospitals merge to form consortiums, there is an ongoing need to provide a cost-effective, fully managed networking solution that will enable information to be shared and exchanged between multiple sites quickly and reliably. The Newbridge solution delivers high performance ubiquitous network services that are locationally independent and "application-proof."
"As the needs of our network continued to grow and change at a phenomenal rate, we began to experience difficulties handling traffic and managing our network, which was being taxed to the limit," said Dr. Barry Wiggs, Technical Infrastructure, St. Paul's Hospital. "With more than 7,500 employees, Providence Healthcare needed a fast, reliable network that is simple to administer and can be managed from a single point. We needed to manage and deliver useful network services to our end users and not just offer connectivity. The Newbridge solution met all of our needs. Within a matter of hours, the network was up-and-running for us to test and use. Now that's plug-and-play technology!"
The VIVID switched routing solution being installed at St. Paul's Hospital consists of CS3000 ATM switches at the network core, Orange Ridge(TM) and Yellow Ridge(TM) edge devices, Route Servers, and a System Manager. The entire solution functions as a single network-wide Layer 3 switch.
With dual route servers to provide redundancy, the Newbridge MultiProtocol-Over-ATM (MPOA)-based switched routing network will enable the delivery of multiple traffic types (e.g., voice, video and data) to each of the healthcare consortium members without the delays inherent in a traditional router-based solution.
"We are pleased that we have been able to develop a networking solution that will enable the people who are served by the Providence Health Care consortium to benefit from superior quality, competitive healthcare services," said Stu Aaron, Assistant Vice President, Enterprise Marketing, Newbridge Networks. "The flexibility and scalability of the network will ensure St. Paul's is well positioned to meet demand for even higher bandwidth applications, such as digital x-rays and cardiac imaging well into the future."
Newbridge Networks (NYSE:NN) (TSE:NNC.) designs, manufactures, markets and services networking solutions to organizations in more than 100 countries. Newbridge leverages its relationship with 16 Affiliate companies and strategic alliances with Siemens and 3Com Corporation to deliver seamless, end-to-end solutions. Newbridge customers include the world's 250 largest telecommunications service providers and more than 10,000 corporations, government organizations and other institutions. Founded in 1986, the Company employs more than 6,000 people on five continents. News and information are available at www.newbridge.com. >>>>
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M2 PRESSWIRE-10 August 1998-VISION IN BUSINESS: Commercially Viable Internet Telephony (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
Conference organised by Vision in Business, Technical Telecommunications Division Dates: 23rd and 24th September 1998 City: Copenhagen, Denmark Venue: Radisson SAS Hotel Sponsored by: Newbridge Networks Ltd and ITXC and supported by: The Internet Telephony Newsletter
From Science Fiction to Reality in a Year!! The last twelve months have seen a sudden realisation by operators world-wide that the future may well lie in Internet Telephony. 12 months ago telephone calls via the Internet were unreliable and commercially unusable, a cheap but frustrating way for a tiny percentage of the worlds' netheads to bypass the costs of international calls. The incredible pace with which the technology will allow the transition from circuit to packet switched networks has developed means that VON (voice on the net) will change the way we all communicate in the 21st Century.
All operators now need to examine how best to deal with the opportunities. and threats VON poses for them.
Learn from the Experts Commercially Viable Internet Telephony, to be held in Copenhagen on September 23rd and 24th, is the only platform where you can hear speakers from Deutsche Telekom, Stockholm Telecom and France Telecom sharing experiences gained from their respective launches of Internet Telephony services over the last year.
Vision in Business has also assembled the world's leading experts on IP technology from companies including: Telenor, BT, Ericsson, Cisco Systems, Dialogic and MCI to discuss issues such as: I. Achieving and Maintaining Quality of Service for VoIP II. Developing Pricing Strategies III. Forecasting Customer Usage IV. Maximising Bandwidth
In addition Kevin Coates from the European Commission Telecommunications Unit DGIV will address the European and global regulatory issues that VoIP raises.
CONTACT: Vision in Business Tel: +44 (0)171 839 8391 Fax: +44 (0)171 839 3777 e-mail: postmaster@visibis1.demon.co.uk WWW: visibis.com >>>>
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M2 PRESSWIRE-12 August 1998-VISION IN BUSINESS: ATM Interworking (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
Conference organised by Vision in Business, Telecommunications Division Dates: 21st-23rd October 1998 City: Nice, France Venue: The Meridien Nice Endorsed by: ETSI Exhibition by: Anritsu; The ATM Forum
New Concepts -- New Products -- New Standards -- New Players -- New Controversies and New Opportunities for YOU!
Features Key Talks on: -- Which applications and services will drive ATM and where IP has taken over? -- How to operate an efficient network management strategy to bring real business advantage.
Also: A one day interactive workshop: "IP based VPN Strategic Implementation and Management", led by Cisco Systems.
Speaker Panel includes experts from: BT Laboratories, Nortel, Equant, O.Tel.O., Hermes Railtel, Sonero, Bay Networks, 3Com, GTE Internetworking / BBN Technologies, Schema, Fore Systems, Newbridge, Telecom Italia, Deutsche Telekom, Siemens, IBM Global Service and Cable. & Wireless.
CONTACT: Dina Isaac, Vision in Business Tel: +44 (0)171 747 5423 Fax: +44 (0)171 839 3777 e-mail: dina@visibis1.demon.co.uk WWW: visibis.com
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