Centre Hospitalier Carcassonne
The backing of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and its partner NextiraOne allowed the Carcassonne Hospital Centre to experiment with the solutions offered prior to their implementation.
- Country: France
- Industry: Healthcare
- Solution: Connected Solutions and Devices, Data Center, Security
The new Carcassonne Hospital Center built on the Montredon site, opened in May 2014. It offers a 496 patient-care capacity, including beds and offices over an area of 53,757 m2 spread over five levels. The Hospital Centre also manages two nursing homes with a capacity of 290 beds and a 15-patient ambulatory care capacity. It was following the initial successful installation of the EHPAD that Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise was chosen to participate in the Hospital Centre's call for offers.
Challenges
- The reconstruction of the new Hospital Center required the implementation of a unified wired and wireless data network capable of supporting a wide variety of applications.
- It was also necessary to ensure total control over all access to the internal network, whether wired or wireless.
- The reduction in administrative costs was also part of the technical specifications in the call for offers.
Results
Technical benefits
- The network is highly available and sufficiently powerful (based on 10 Gigabyte technology) to support numerous applications (patient files, software, office automation and biomedical applications, patient internet access).
- Supplied by Power over the Ethernet (PoE), 180 Wifi terminals assure complete coverage throughout the five levels of the new building.
Financial benefits
- The Wifi solution is based on central controllers that thereby facilitate operation and reduce costs.
User experience benefits
- Patients can now have internet access in the rooms using their multimedia terminal.
Products & Solutions
Products
- OmniSwitch 10K Modular LAN Chassis
- OmniSwitch 6900 Stackable LAN Switch
- OmniSwitch 6450 Stackable LAN Switch
- OmniAccess AP105
- OmniAccess 4550
- Business DECT Handsets
- ClearPass
- OmniPCX Enterprise Communication Server
- OpenTouch Multimedia Services
Solutions