A Healthy System Needs a New Network

Technology is playing a growing role in medicine, so quality health care hinges more on the network that powers that technology. By partnering with Juniper Networks, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has emerged as a pioneer in how pediatric medical care is delivered with technology.

Alder Hey is one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, providing care for 200,000 children each year. This means that at each moment, thousands of young lives depend on its network.

"Our existing infrastructure wasn’t able to scale to support the bandwidth-hungry applications that enable us to deliver high standards of patient care and services," said Dr. Zafar Chaudry, Chief Information Officer, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. “Juniper Networks was the only supplier capable of delivering 10GB Ethernet over our existing fiber backbone, enabling the bandwidth and network performance we needed, whilst reducing the cost and complexity of managing the network. Because clinical applications will run more efficiently, we’ll get results faster. This means we can respond quicker, and that will allow us to deliver better patient care.”

Junos at Alder Hey

Alder Hey Hospital has replaced Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches with Virtual Chassis technology enabling up to 10 EX4200 Ethernet Switches to interconnect and operate as a single system. The Juniper solution delivers status and performance monitoring, shared security policies and network access control from a single platform. This simplifies system management and reduces operational cost.

Juniper’s advanced network enables mission-critical clinical and administrative applications, as well as patient entertainment services. The high-performance, security and management infrastructure makes it easier, faster and safer to meet patients’ medical needs when time and accuracy are most important.

The New Network is here, and Alder Hey Hospital runs it.