BellSouth Connects Baptist Health Facilities With 600-Mile Fiber Ring
18 Mai 2005 - 4:26PM
PR Newswire (US)
BellSouth Connects Baptist Health Facilities With 600-Mile Fiber
Ring -- Next Generation Service Provides Added Reliability and
Flexibility; Supports Innovative Medical Technology -- ATLANTA, May
18 /PRNewswire/ -- BellSouth (NYSE:BLS) today announced that it is
providing 600 miles of fiber infrastructure to link Baptist
Health's medical facilities in a five-county area of Northeast
Florida and South Georgia. The network implementation is part of
the health care system's strategy of investing in technology to
help ensure excellent patient care. Many of Baptist Health's
locations rely on new medical technologies such as PACS (digital
medical imaging which replaces old film x-ray or radiology
technologies), clinical information systems and automated point of
care, patient access and administrative systems. These and other
similar technology investments result in faster diagnoses and
improved resource utilization, all while maximizing the assurance
of appropriate patient care. BellSouth's solution allows various
locations to share information via voice, data, LAN and video
transport and gives employees ubiquitous access to the new medical
tools centralized on servers at key locations. "High availability,
reliability and affordability were key criteria for any network
connections between our five hospitals, primary care centers and
specialty facilities," said Dave Dully, director of technology -
Baptist Health. "We require redundant systems and high bandwidth
built on a secure infrastructure with lots of flexibility and
scalability." The solution includes a fiber ring with diverse paths
to all of the customer's hospital locations. The self-healing fiber
ring, known as BellSouth(R) SMARTRing(R) Service, is engineered
with MSPP (Multi-Service Provisioning Platform) features. MSPP
provides standards-based, carrier class transport capabilities to
the health care system and delivers enhanced network flexibility.
For example, if Baptist Health has the future need to share
Ethernet traffic from its primary care facilities and other
smaller, remote site locations over the fiber ring that supports
the hospitals, MSPP allows the integration of protocols. "Health
care providers can not afford the risk of communication outages.
Their entire operation is mission critical," said Rusty Rhodes,
vice president of sales for North Florida - BellSouth Business.
"Between the hurricanes in Florida last year and fiber cuts due to
construction in some of the high growth areas surrounding Baptist
Health's locations, SMARTRing technology has proven its ability to
deliver continuous service." By incorporating the new technologies
into the access network for Baptist Health, BellSouth designed a
solution built for future upgrades to be implemented "in-service,"
meaning it is not taken "down" or out of service to turn up new
bandwidth in the future. This alleviated a major concern for the
hospital's patient care consideration. Additionally, Baptist Health
will have options in the future should it decide to add its
existing Metro Ethernet traffic to the fiber ring. BellSouth worked
closely with Baptist Health's IT staff to ensure a smooth
transition to the new service. The team conducted detailed site
surveys, held training sessions for the Baptist Health users and
provided demonstration equipment prior to deployment of the
SMARTRing MSPP solution. As a result, the Baptist Health management
approached the critical live cutover date with confidence.
"BellSouth was concerned with every detail of the process, every
step of the way," continued Dully. "Careful planning resulted in a
seamless migration, without disruption to the medical facilities'
operations." Over the last three years, BellSouth has evolved its
underlying SONET infrastructure to a next-generation MSPP
(Multi-service Provisioning Platform) to improve network
efficiencies and to better support new optical solutions. For more
information about BellSouth Business voice and data solutions,
visit http://www.bellsouthlargebusiness.com/ . About Baptist Health
of Jacksonville, FL Baptist Health is a faith-based, mission-driven
system comprised of Baptist Medical Center, Baptist Medical Center
Beaches, Baptist Medical Center Nassau, Baptist Medical Center
South and Wolfson Children's Hospital - Jacksonville's only
children's hospital. Baptist Health also includes cardiology and
cardiovascular surgery services, a comprehensive cancer center,
orthopaedic institute, women's resource center, a full range of
psychology and psychiatry services, outpatient facilities and a
network of primary care physicians' offices throughout Northeast
Florida. About BellSouth Corporation BellSouth Corporation is a
Fortune 100 communications company headquartered in Atlanta,
Georgia. BellSouth has joint control and 40 percent ownership of
Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest wireless voice and data
provider with more than 50 million customers. Backed by award
winning customer service, BellSouth offers the most comprehensive
and innovative package of voice and data services available in the
market. Through BellSouth Answers(R), residential and small
business customers can bundle their local and long distance service
with dial-up and high-speed DSL Internet access, satellite
television and Cingular(R) Wireless service. For businesses,
BellSouth provides secure, reliable local and long distance voice
and data networking solutions. BellSouth also offers online and
directory advertising through BellSouth(R) RealPages.com(R) and The
Real Yellow Pages(R). BellSouth believes that diversity and
fostering an inclusive environment are critical in maintaining a
competitive advantage in today's global marketplace. More
information about BellSouth can be found at
http://www.bellsouth.com/ . DATASOURCE: BellSouth Corporation
CONTACT: Todd Smith of BellSouth Corporation, +1-404-829-8723, or
Web site: http://www.bellsouth.com/
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