Alder Hey Children's Hospital Selects Xirrus for Campus-wide Network
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest specialist children's healthcare providers in Western Europe. It has a national and international reputation as a centre of excellence for children with cancer, heart, spinal and brain disease and is one of a small number of children's hospitals in the UK providing a comprehensive range of services from those based in the community to supra-regional specialties for children and young people. It sees and treats more than 200,000 children each year and is England's first paediatric health promoting hospital accredited by the World Health Organisation.
Requirements
- Ubiquitous Wi-Fi access throughout the campus
- Quick and easy to install without major disruptions to hospital's operations
- Minimal IT closet space
- Bandwidth for electronic prescribing, RFID tagging, and VoWiFi
- Upgradable to 802.11n
Benefits
- 100% pervasive Wi-Fi coverage across their campus
- Reduced cost due to far fewer devices, cables, and time to deploy
- High capacity and performance for physician and patient applications
- Very short installation time with easy option for 802.11n upgrade
Savings
- Ratio of Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays to traditional access points
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1:5 |
- Number of additional access points saved
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776 |
- Number of additional cable runs saved
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776 |
- Number of switch ports that saved
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776 |
- Average power savings per year(kWh)
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66,751 |