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Selection Criteria
While price/performance, good customer support and an
open and direct communication with its vendor are important
selection criteria, HSC placed priority on selecting a vendor
who understands the nature of its business and services.
HSC was looking for a vendor that has experience in providing
reliable Telemedicine network infrastructures.
After a thorough selection process, HSC chose Allied Telesis,
one of the leading global IP networking leaders. With a solid
track record of supporting the Asia Pacific Advanced Network
(APAN) Telemedicine initiative with Virtual Private Network
(VPN) and high speed switching technologies, Allied Telesis
met and exceeded HSC’s requirements.
“Allied Telesis offers the experience, knowledge and technology
that we were looking for. Its solutions are able to seamlessly
integrate our new and existing network. This resulted in
giving HSC the best Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). I’m happy
that Allied Telesis meet all the stringent requirements within
the hospital's budget,” said Dr. Soo.
Allied Telesis Case Study: HSC Medical Center, Malaysia
The Solution
Allied Telesis presented a flexible, cost-effective switching
and routing solution that could grow with HSC. The solution
was adopted using the Allied Telesis AR750S series routers,
AT-9724TS and AT-9748TS series Stackable Layer 3 Switches.
The AT-AR750S router provides IPsec VPN connectivity
from HSC Darby Park, Kuala Lumpur to HSC PGRM, Cheras
(remote site) over Broadband xDSL services. The Allied Telesis
routers and switches both supports SSH, which allows secure,
encrypted, remote management and configuration of the
hardware.
In HSC Darby Park, the AT-9724TS and AT-9748TS switches
provide the workstations and servers with 10/100/1000Mbps
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LAN connectivity. The network supports multiple VLANs
namely iCare and Siemens. Layer 3 Routing enabled the
switches to facilitate connectivity between the two VLANs.
On the HSC remote site (PGRM), the AT-9724TS is installed
to provide LAN connectivity 10/100/1000Mbps to all the
workstations and servers. Similarly, the PGRM network
supports multiple VLANs.
There are two IPsec VPN tunnels created via two separate
xDSL lines, supporting iCare and Siemens applications
respectively. The Siemens application is delay sensitive,
and is a mission-critical application.
The Result
The investment in Allied Telesis’s solution proved worthwhile.
The benefits of the new solution were immediately felt.
With a secure high-speed broadband network between the
centers, HSC experienced increased coverage that allows
the various resources and facilities to be shared across the
network. The LAN implementation, meanwhile, allows users
the convergence of voice, video, and data. Medical specialists,
surgeons, doctors, nurses, and allied medical hospitals and
professionals are all assured of full access to network resources.
They are able to utilize the network to share information
efficiently and effectively. For example, graphical content
can be referred directly from examination rooms, and clinical
laboratory center examination outcomes can be easily checked
on a real-time basis.
“Allied Telesis prides itself in helping customers enhance its
competitiveness and efficiency. To be able to contribute to
HSC’s customer-centric vision is what we strive to achieve,”
said Paul Choy, Country Manager, Malaysia, Allied Telesis.
