Conquest Hospital in East Sussex is working with Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and Khipu Networks to provide a network infrastructure that offers enough capacity to support the next generation of medical equipment and services.
In order to support over 6,000 staff across the two hospitals and rising demand from essential but data intensive healthcare operations, including telemetry such as CT scanners and radiology image reporting, the core network speed has been significantly been improved with a tenfold increase in bandwidth - 1Gbit/s to 10Gbit/s.
The new network will handle and electronically deliver up to two million patient healthcare records.
There are plans to repeat the project at Eastbourne District General Hospital in 2016, which is the second of two major district hospitals operated by the East Sussex Healthcare Trust, with proposals for a further extension to community hospitals.
Andy Bissenden, Associate Director of IT, East Sussex Healthcare Trust, said: "The core network is one of the most vital aspects of our IT modernisation programme, and we have ensured first-class Quality of Service by introducing consistent reliability and redundancy. I am particularly impressed with the power-saving features of our new switches, which will assist in cutting operational expenditure and the hospital's carbon footprint."
Chris Butler, Customer Account Manager, Khipu Networks, added: "Our delivery of a modern network tailored to the requirements of a healthcare environment with Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise technology demonstrates the flexibility and versatility of the products we installed.
"The close working partnership we fostered with the team at Conquest Hospital was vital to delivering a solution that fulfils their needs - a reference trip to Royal Brompton Hospital allowed the team to see the benefits of a similar Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise solution in action."