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Healthcare Leader Mayo Clinic Enables Innovative Mobility Solutions to Enhance Patient Care
Cisco Achieves Major Milestone in Enterprise Wireless Market With Shipment of Five Millionth Access Point to Mayo Clinic
| Source: Cisco Systems, Inc.
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - May 7, 2008) - Cisco (NASDAQ : CSCO ) announced today that Mayo
Clinic, the largest integrated, not-for-profit group medical practice in
the world, has deployed a Cisco® Unified Wireless Network to improve its
patient care. The network encompasses more than 3,000 Cisco access points,
Cisco 4400 Series controllers and the Cisco Wireless Services Module for
the Catalyst 6500; delivering a broad set of healthcare mobility
applications to its population of approximately 40,000 physicians, nurses
and staff within its three U.S.-based campuses. In addition, Mayo will
begin evaluating Cisco's 802.11n Aironet® 1250 Series Access Points to
enable a broader set of new mobility applications across its facilities.
Cisco also announced that Mayo Clinic received Cisco's five millionth
Aironet access point, which began shipping in 2000. This marks yet another
major milestone for Cisco in the evolution of the enterprise wireless
market.
In addition to wireless data access for its 5,000 mobile users, Mayo has
equipped approximately 1,000 users with wireless voice over IP (VoIP)
phones, enabling better mobile collaboration between doctors, nurses and
hospital staff, helping ensure that tasks like physician information entry
can be accomplished in real time at a patient's bedside. Mayo has also
connected a variety of medical devices and equipment to the wireless LAN
(WLAN) including 2,000 infusion pumps, 300 patient-controlled analgesia
(PCA) pumps and 100 pulse oximeters that are used to monitor patient heart
rates and breathing. Connecting these devices to the wireless network
allows doctors and nurses to access vital patient information from wherever
they are in the hospital, improving their efficiency and resulting in
better patient care.
Cisco Wireless Network Delivers Productivity Benefits, Better Patient Care
to Mayo
Mayo's reputation as a healthcare innovator required its information
technology department to deploy a wireless networking infrastructure that
supports the organization's overall goals of delivering the highest levels
of patient care, medical research and academic education. With its Cisco
Unified Wireless Network, Mayo has enabled collaborative and
productivity-enhancing applications for its physicians, nurses and staff.
"Mayo is constantly striving to improve upon its reputation as a pioneer in
medical care, research and education," said Randy Regimbal, Mayo Clinic's
director of network services. "Our Cisco Unified Wireless Network has
become an essential foundation for meeting these strategic objectives and
has empowered our physicians, nurses and administrative staff to
dramatically improve the quality of patient care."
"As the enterprise wireless network has evolved from a convenient access
option into a strategic corporate asset, Cisco has introduced innovations
in design, performance, security and reliability that have helped customers
use the wireless network for their business-critical applications and
data," said Ben Gibson, Cisco's senior director of mobility solutions. "We
are committed to helping our customers meet and exceed their business
objectives by transforming their wireless infrastructures into true
mobility networks. In the case of Mayo Clinic, we're enabling a broader set
of mobility solutions that can help improve the overall patient
experience."
Mayo will begin testing the Cisco 802.11n Aironet 1250 Series Access
Points, as the clinic is interested in the enhanced throughput, reliability
and predictability afforded by 802.11n technology, as well as its ability
to enable new mobility applications that will continue to improve the
quality of care.
Cisco was first to market with an integrated 802.11n draft 2.0 solution,
allowing organizations like Mayo to take full advantage of mobility
applications, and it was the first vendor to ship Wi-Fi Alliance-certified
802.11n draft 2.0 products globally. Cisco continues to accelerate the
adoption of 802.11n with customer deployments across numerous vertical
markets including healthcare, education and hospitality. With more than
50,000 802.11n access points shipped since October 2007, and landmark
deployments including Concordia University, University of California at
Berkeley, Duke University and Oriental Bangkok, Cisco leads the market with
real-world production deployments that give enterprises the performance and
reliability they need to scale their networks now, while protecting their
investments for the future.
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