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To: Harold S. Kirby who wrote (25572)	12/2/1998 3:23:00 PM
From: Tim Luke	Respond to of 45548

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To: Harold S. Kirby who wrote (25572)	12/2/1998 3:24:00 PM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 45548

NON-PP: Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center Launches Advanced Healthcare Network With 3Com's New Large Enterprise Core Switching Systems - BW, 12:45 p.m. Dec 02, 1998 Eastern 3Com Systems to Deliver Advanced Imaging, Information Management and Future Multimedia Applications for Leading New Jersey Hospital SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 1998-- 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ:COMS) today announced that Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, southern New Jersey's preeminent hospital for high-risk medical procedures, is standardizing its new $1.1 million local area network (LAN) on new 3Com(R) CoreBuilder(TM) 9000 ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) enterprise switches and supporting ATM and Ethernet systems. The CoreBuilder 9000 switches will constitute a 622 megabits-per-second (Mbps) OC-12 ATM backbone with OC-12 links to wiring closets. The fully redundant LAN additionally delivers 100 Mbps and switched 10 Mbps desktop connections, providing a high-speed environment that can support medical imaging, information management and other bandwidth-intensive applications Lourdes plans to implement to better serve its patients. Founded in 1950, Lourdes specializes in tertiary care and utilizes a staff of 640 physicians to treat more than 14,000 in-patients annually. The hospital performs over 6,000 non-invasive cardiac procedures and 1,300 open-heart surgeries per year. A member of Catholic Health East, Inc., Lourdes is also one of only two Level III Regional perinatal centers in southern New Jersey and handles high-risk pregnancies, as well as routine deliveries. Lourdes' Dialysis and Transplant Center is southern New Jersey's only major organ transplant center and the state's first hospital to perform a successful kidney/pancreas transplant. Powered by its new 3Com network, Lourdes is poised to deliver several service enhancements designed to significantly improve patient care. Chief among these are sophisticated radiology and cardiology imaging applications, which will allow consulting physicians to view radiology and cardiology images off site and confer with on-site colleagues viewing the images from hospital desktops. Off-site doctors will use dial-up connections and notebook computers to access images necessary to make immediate, accurate assessments. The 3Com network will also run radiology and cardiology information systems, which will automate data management for those services while cutting the costs of archiving radiology and cardiology images by storing them in a digital format. Lourdes additionally plans to utilize the 3Com network's scalable bandwidth by rolling out entirely new classes of applications. The hospital is evaluating videoconferencing, which would be used to facilitate consultations between physicians located in different campus buildings and remote sites. Long term, Lourdes is considering eliminating its proprietary voice network and handling voice traffic over the 3Com LAN at substantial savings. "Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center has a rich tradition of applying technology to provide the most advanced healthcare treatment to our patients," said Mike Monostra, Lourdes' director of information services. "With our 3Com infrastructure, we're equipped to continue this legacy by leveraging the power of networks to bring new and faster services to make our care even better." Architected for 21st Century Care Lourdes' migration to its ATM network emanated from a strategic decision to upgrade network-driven services to improve patient care. Having used a shared Ethernet fabric since 1992, Lourdes' LAN had become severely overloaded, forcing the hospital to run its Eclipsys clinical information system on a separate proprietary network. The former network's saturated bandwidth also precluded the hospital from rolling out advanced medical imaging applications, including those that use voice and video. To rectify this, Lourdes evaluated solutions from five competing vendors and judged each using specific functional criteria, such as scalability, manageability, and virtual LAN (VLAN) sophistication. Ultimately, 3Com emerged the winner of Lourdes' evaluations. "We wanted a scalable network we could manage from a centralized management station," said Monostra. "3Com's management solution gave us that and allowed us to create VLANs with point and click simplicity for our radiology and cardiology imaging applications. 3Com's ATM systems also outperformed the other vendors in laboratory tests and provided significant savings by allowing us to put the Eclipsys information system on our new LAN." Slated for completion in January 1999, the core of Lourdes' network consists of a collapsed backbone comprised of two CoreBuilder 9000 enterprise switches and two CoreBuilder 3500 Layer 3 switches dedicated to VLAN switching. Equipped with dual power supplies and redundant switching engines, the CoreBuilder 9000 switches will have redundant OC-12 links to 12 CoreBuilder 7000HD (High Density) ATM switches in the hospital's wiring closets. Each CoreBuilder 7000HD switch is equipped with two CoreBuilder 7600 interface cards and a CoreBuilder 7600 interface card to deliver 100 Mbps and 10 Mbps respectively to desktops. The hospital plans to deploy OC-3 155 Mbps ATM links to servers. Lourdes will use VLAN technology to isolate local user communities and ensure adequate bandwidth to support the flow of multi-megabyte image files on the LAN. In addition to 3Com hardware, Lourdes will employ 3Com's Transcend(R) Enterprise Manager network management software with remote monitoring (RMON) to configure, control and manage its new infrastructure. The 3Com management software's simplifies network management by using a graphical interface with drag-and-drop capabilities to configure adds, moves and changes for VLANs. "Our goal at Our Lady of Lourdes is to improve any procedure that impacts the well-being of our patients, from diagnostics to record keeping," said Monostra. "The CoreBuilder 9000 15 Gigabit-per-second backplane is a step above the processing capacity of any system we've seen. The system's redundant switching engines and power supplies give us confidence the 9000 CoreBuilder will provide the reliability we need, and we expect it to be a key technology for the delivery of patient services for many years to come." About 3Com Corporation With more than 200 million customers worldwide, 3Com Corporation connects more people to information in more ways than any other networking company. 3Com delivers innovative information access products and network system solutions to large, medium and small enterprises; carriers and network service providers; PC OEMs; and consumers. 3Com -- More connected(TM). For further information, visit 3Com's World Wide Web site at www.3com.com or the press site at www.3com.com/pressbox. 3Com and Transcend are registered trademarks and CoreBuilder and More connected are trademarks of 3Com Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective companies with which they are associated. 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