Whether you are a nationwide healthcare organization, hospital, local medical practice or clinic, the voice, data and video networks and communications systems are now more important than ever.

As your networking demands continue to grow in support of a wide range of healthcare IT functions including:

• patient care and safety
• medical imaging
• high speed Internet access
• telemedicine
• HIPAA compliance
• work from home access
• business and administration processes
• doctor, nurse, employee, supplier or health plan connectivity

ADTRAN solutions offer innovative internetworking technologies that will improve both your capital budgets and clinical patient care.

ADTRAN offers several key technologies and solutions for healthcare networks, including:

IP Routing

Internetworking WANs and LANs within a facility or throughtout an integrated healthcare sytem can be addressed with ADTRAN's suite of cost-effective, industry standard routers. ADTRAN offers a complete line of IP access routers that support LAN and WAN connectivity for Internet, public and private Frame Relay, and leased line networks. These full-featured, low-cost access routers include an integral DSU/CSU, a stateful inspection firewall, optional DSX port for PBX connectivity and dial backup options, and a familiar command line interface.

Internet Security

Complying with HIPAA, securing Internet access has become a critical project for many healthcare organizations. ADTRAN offers a series of VPN/Firewall products ranging from small, economical remote teleworker devices to large central site solutions.

Ethernet Switching

Videoconferencing

To address an increasing need for telemedicine, medical imaging, remote conferencing, distance learning and collaboration, ADTRAN offers the ATLAS Video Switch series for videoconferencing. This Video Switch enables multiple videoconferencing systems to share WAN access and bandwidth which reduces the need for dedicated circuits and lowers communications costs. ATLAS Video Switch is ideal for healthcare organizations that prefer ISDN switched services, since ATLAS provides dynamic call-by-call switching over PRI and BRI, and offers a diverse and industry-standard set of interfaces for video equipment. ATLAS can also be used along with today's encryption devices to create a highly secured, high-performance videoconferencing network.

Integrated Access

Today’s wide area network typically consists of multiple circuits to handle various traffic types, complicated by the presence of varying service and pricing options between geographic regions.

ATLAS is a multiservice, modular platform that accommodates multiple protocols and interfaces, collapsing multiple parallel networks into a more streamlined and less expensive topology. ATLAS consolidates voice, fax, modem, video, local area network (LAN), and legacy data traffic over a single wide area link, reducing overall telecommunication expenses.

ATLAS also provides the ability to convert ISDN PRIs into T1 for organizations that would like to access PRI without going through an expensive PBX upgrade.

T1 Connectivity

T1 and ISDN PRI are the most popular technologies used today to access the public switched network or connect a private network. ADTRAN offers a wide range of T1/PRI connectivity solutions suitable for to connect PBX/Key Systems or LANs to the wide area circuit. In fact, many ADTRAN T1 solutions enable users to share the T1 bandwidth between voice and data, reducing overall costs and improving bandwidth efficiency

Wireless

Whether it’s connecting healthcare buildings within a community or campus, or trying to overcome obstacles associated with copper-based lines, license-free microwave communication systems offer a fast and affordable alternative for voice and data communications. ADTRAN offers a series of market leading T1, multiple T1, and DS3 point-to-point, license-free wireless solutions.