Children’s Hospital Boston is comprised of several locations in downtown Boston primarily associated with pediatric healthcare and medical research. With an expansion to another facility located several miles away in Waltham, and the moving of their primary data center to a state-of-the-art facility in another Boston suburb, Children’s sought a high-performance, scalable dense wavelength division multiplexing solution offering the performance and reliability of their local area network over a wide area network, with the flexibility to accommodate future growth.
Children’s selected Ciena’s CN 4200 through the EMC Select program for its unique multi-protocol capabilities, which enable the delivery of multiple services on-demand, including gigabit Ethernet, fibre channel and video across multiple locations, as well as its low latency to enable the fastest response times and the ability to scale to meet the needs of new services at higher speeds as demand evolves.
With our increasing dependency on clinical information systems and the electronic medical record, we need to provide a 100% available network backbone with capacity and performance that supports the application response times our clinicians require, said Paul Scheib, director of IS operations at Children’s. With such critical information stored and sent across our network for hospital operations and data backup, we needed a versatile connectivity solution that would grow with our network and evolving clinical data requirements.
