Xirrus High-Performance Wi-Fi Covers Motebang District Hospital
Motebang Hospital is located in Hlotse, in the Leribe district of Lesotho, a mountainous region landlocked by South Africa. The 196-bed hospital serves the second largest catchment population of any district hospital with over 55,000 outpatient visits and 5,300 inpatient admissions. The hospital's eight wards are each serviced in separate buildings, providing comprehensive care for the population's diverse needs.
Requirements
- Support large number of connected users continuously
- Provide high bandwidth for each user
- Minimum number of cable drops and devices
- Zero RF interference to medical systems
- Easy management and long term ROI
Benefits
- Only 12 Arrays needed to provide full coverage throughout entire medical campus, both indoors and outdoors<
- Support for data with sufficient capacity for voice and video on a single infrastructure
- Controller based solution to support roaming and QoS
- Fewer devices installed to result in less cabling, switch ports, installation time and maintenance
Savings
- Ratio of Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays to traditional access points
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1:4 |
- Number of additional access points saved
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33 |
- Number of additional cable runs saved
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33 |
- Number of switch ports that saved
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33 |
- Average power savings per year(kWh)
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4,073 |