Customer References
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
Industry: Healthcare
Alcatel-Lucent Solutions: Network Infrastructure,IP Telephony
Business Size: Large
Country: United Kingdom
In London and Surrey, 420,000 residents depend on the acute medical services of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. With more than 5,000 staff and volunteers spread out over four hospitals, the Trust required a secure, reliable IT architecture to deliver critical care to its patients. Supported by Alcatel-Lucent solutions, the Trust implemented a three-phase program of continuous improvement – delivering safe, reliable communications to increase efficiency and enhance care.
Challenges
> Create a highly resilient and secure networking infrastructure—both wired and wireless
> Maintain capacity for disaster recovery
> Support continued network improvement
Benefits
> Improved patient experience
> Ability to employ modern mobile clinical devices at patient bedsides
> Tenfold increase in network performance
Alcatel-Lucent Solutions
> Network Infrastructure
Alcatel-Lucent Products Deployed
> 7750 Service Router
> OmniStack 6200
> OmniSwitch 6850