Reasons Healthcare. Prefers Juniper Wireless

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1 Reasons Healthcare Prefers Juniper Wireless

2 Juniper s WLAN solution delivers the highest levels of reliability, scalability, management, and security to meet the mobility needs of healthcare. Wireless Solution for Healthcare Overview Enterprise networks are experiencing extraordinary change, and healthcare is no exception. Trends such as mobile device proliferation and the increasing use of video, remote collaboration, and a vast array of rich applications are opening up exciting new opportunities for the healthcare industry. Unfortunately, these opportunities also come at a time of shrinking budgets, IT staff reductions, and increasing demand for ubiquitous, always-on wireless service for mobile devices. To meet this need, Juniper Networks provides a comprehensive wireless LAN solution, part of its Simply Connected product portfolio, which offers measurable advantages in provisioning, security, performance, reliability, and management to address these new realities. Combined, these advantages make Juniper uniquely capable of addressing the changing needs of healthcare enterprises worldwide. Juniper s wireless LAN solution provides an advanced architecture that is designed specifically for mobility, with the highest and most advanced levels of reliability, scalability, manageability, and security available today. Juniper delivers high performance through a highly distributed, intelligent WLAN infrastructure that allows offloading of encryption, packet inspection, and packet forwarding from centralized controllers to access points. Juniper Networks wireless LAN products have been deployed in many enterprise industries since the inception of the thin access point revolution in Today, more than 1 million access points are installed at over 6,000 businesses worldwide. Juniper s WLAN products are now found in enterprise companies of all sizes, including Fortune 100, government, hospitality, financial, and retail institutions. 2

3 10 Reasons to Choose Juniper Networks WLAN for Healthcare The healthcare market has long chosen Juniper Networks as a preferred WLAN partner. Juniper has numerous healthcare customers running large, complex, mission critical WLAN networks. Below are 10 of the most important reasons healthcare organizations are choosing Juniper s WLAN solution. 1) Resiliency: Juniper Networks provides the only hitless stateful failover solution for zero impact network failover. With the increased prevalence of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), VoWLAN, and other mobile healthcare applications, disruptions to the wireless network can create a loss of valuable caregiver time and result in increased threats to patient safety. Failure of mission critical WLAN services can break communication links between caregivers and, in worst case scenarios, result in a complete outage affecting vital applications such as patient monitoring. When an unplanned outage such as a power failure occurs, all wireless sessions on a Juniper wireless LAN system will seamlessly and statefully fail over to a backup controller, with zero service disruption. 2) In-Service Software Upgrades: Juniper provides the only wireless LAN system that allows users to perform in-service software upgrades on a live wireless network. Coordination of software upgrades (alerting staff, scheduling downtime, etc.) is a challenge in an always-on healthcare environment. When an image upgrade is required (whether planned or in an emergency), Juniper s WLAN solution allows a centralized IT team to perform in-service software upgrades with near zero interruption to end user service. 3) Manageability: Juniper Networks is the only vendor that allows IT administrators to manage an entire group of controllers as one logical entity, eliminating the need for managing many individual controllers. Up to 16,000 access points can be managed by 32 controllers all as one logical entity. Unmatched manageability and scalability is built into the network. This allows IT staff to manage their network with fewer resources and better control. 4) Simple Expansion: Juniper Networks WLAN solution makes adds, moves, and changes nondisruptive to user sessions and completely automated. With growing demands of clinicians for connectivity, expansion through new construction, and an ever increasing number of users, supporting growth of the wireless network becomes a key requirement for any WLAN solution. Juniper s wireless LAN solution makes change management and growth seamless. Adding a controller to the system simply requires powering up the new controller and giving it the IP address of the master controller. The master controller downloads full configuration and sets up all real-time state. It also seamlessly load-balances access point capacity onto the new controller with no user intervention. 3

4 5) Mobile Devices: Juniper Networks provides a complete end-toend system for provisioning and onboarding mobile devices to the wireless network. Juniper is the only vendor to combine mobile device management with mobile security for the best end user mobile experience. The flood of personal mobile devices such as ipads and smartphones into the clinical environment is placing tremendous demands on IT staff. Responsibility for managing the onboarding of mobile platforms can become overwhelming. Juniper provides a complete end-to-end system for provisioning and onboarding mobile devices to the wireless network. Juniper Networks is the only vendor to combine mobile device management with mobile security for the best end user mobile experience, while at the same time decreasing the workload for IT administrators. Through tight integration with Juniper mobile security products, Juniper s WLAN solution eases the process of bringing mobile devices onto the network. After these devices are on the network, Juniper products ensure that they stay secure. This allows IT managers to focus on more important tasks than manually configuring devices onto the wireless network. 6) RF Expertise: Juniper Networks has the most advanced systemwide radio frequency (RF) intelligence, including full spectrum analysis, for a robust end user experience. Many healthcare networks struggle with poor coverage from legacy WLAN systems, difficult to cover facilities, and high levels of interference. Juniper understands and simplifies RF coverage for such challenging Wi-Fi environments. Using sophisticated RF algorithms to automatically load-balance clients, Juniper significantly simplifies the role of IT in managing complex RF spectrum and in providing a better end user Wi-Fi experience. Juniper s WLAN portfolio of products also includes advanced spectrum analysis capabilities in all n access points. This results in extremely cost-effective access points that simultaneously provide spectrum analysis and high-speed data services. Juniper enables IT managers to detect and address interference sources quickly and easily, with less equipment. Juniper s WLAN solution is purpose-built for the highest performing RF/Wi-Fi experience, with consistent and pervasive coverage. 7) Architecture: Juniper Networks delivers an advanced, flexible traffic forwarding architecture that allows customers to deploy controllers entirely in the data center. This deployment model comes without any loss of features or functionality at remote sites. Consolidation and deployment of controllers in the data center, without having to incur the management and capital burden of controllers in every separate facility, delivers a more cost-effective, more manageable solution. 4

5 8) Simple Management: Juniper Networks provides the only full lifecycle management application in the industry, including threedimensional and spectrum analysis planning. Juniper Networks WLM1200 Ringmaster Appliance enables IT managers to preplan their wireless network, define building material specifications, plan around existing interference sources, and arrive at a fully deployable and highly accurate deployment plan. This proactive network plan ensures a high performing wireless network, and can be given to installers to easily and accurately install access points across the facility. Juniper s WLAN management solution incorporates advanced spectrum analysis into the RF planning process. This allows IT managers to plan around existing interference sources to deliver a completely proactive network plan and ensure a high-performance wireless network. 9) Security: Juniper Networks is the only vendor in the industry to seamlessly enable policy orchestration between WLAN, VPN, network access control (NAC), and firewall across wired and wireless networks for a completely unified security policy. Juniper utilizes the strength of the Interface to Metadata Access Point (IF- MAP) protocol and ecosystem to coordinate policy and elevate policy management to a whole new level. With centralized and uniform awareness of user identity and role, IT staff can ensure end-to-end segmentation for administrators, caregivers, contractors, pharmacy workers, and guests across both wired and wireless networks. Juniper Networks fortifies wireless security by integrating with the wired infrastructure. And, Juniper enables IT managers to apply common, consistent, and strong security policies across the entire facility. 10) Guest Management: Juniper Networks provides the most complete guest access application in the industry. Juniper enables simple management of guest access while creating a feature-rich policy layer for granular policy enforcement. Features such as guest self provisioning using short message service (SMS) allows a secure yet simple way of managing transient user populations. Individual departments and buildings can be responsible for creating and managing their own guests, while IT managers retain control and security of the guest network. By leveraging Juniper s WLAN solution portfolio, IT managers have full control over what guests can access, for how long, from where, and during what timeframe all while complying with regulatory guidelines for network access. 5

6 Summary As healthcare relies more on mobile technology, it is imperative to build robust, flexible, and secure WLAN networks. With unparalleled advantages in reliability, manageability, mobility, performance, and security, Juniper s WLAN solution is an excellent choice for healthcare networks of all sizes. With its advanced architecture, simplicity of management, and seamless security, Juniper Networks wireless LAN portfolio of products can easily address mobility challenges today while preparing healthcare customers for the demands of the future. For More Information For more information about Juniper WLAN solution, please see the following links on Solution Brochure and Datasheets Juniper Networks Wireless LAN Solution Brochure WLA Series Wireless LAN Access Points Datasheet WLC Series Wireless LAN Controllers Datasheet Solution Briefs Ensuring Nonstop System-Level Reliability for Wireless LANs Wireless Airspace Management for Maximum Speed and Reliability Maximizing Wireless LAN Reliability Wireless Resource Management for Maximum Reliability and Scalability 6

7 About Juniper Networks Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. The company serves customers and partners worldwide. Additional information can be found at 7

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