How to solve medical IT network cabling infrastructure problems

Information technology and its electronically stored information in the NHS to improve the quality, speed, and capacity planning plays a key role.

Structured cabling system is mainly composed of wires and wire frame hidden infrastructure, local area network (LAN) laid the basis for the key.

Today, the network facilities of quality, performance and management in the IT strategy and the entire body of performance and reliability play a direct, measurable impact. Need a "high availability" in the network while reducing infrastructure failure, has become the network manager's primary task.

In accordance with the norms of statistical data, 70% of network failure is caused by the wiring.

This is not to say that the agencies have purchased systems, on the contrary, the modern cabling is a stable system, are less likely to fail. In fact, wiring caused network failures are mostly caused by mismanagement, such as control methods and poor file management methods, must be addressed.

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Network availability

High-availability network typically used 99.99% of available time, that is, the network will be unavailable for only 0.01% (year CPC 53 minutes).

In order to rescue the wounded to death guard the bounden duty, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day to run the health care environment, this is clearly unacceptable, because medical institutions cannot control these failures of the actual time. Due to the structured cabling systems are often used for critical medical equipment, any infrastructure failure will cause catastrophic consequences that might endanger the patient's life. In addition, the fault can be located in different places, and further enhance the potential for harm and costs. In fact, 100% availability is not possible, but we can take steps to significantly reduce the number of network failure frequency and time.

Now, the smart distribution system in the market are already forming, can real-time monitoring network.

Effective management of the physical layer not only bring significant management advantages and cost advantages, but also help to achieve well-managed and reliable elastic network, minimizing critical transactional medical IT network infrastructure failures.

Effective management of the physical layer requires a comprehensive, up-to-date, 100% accurate connection record to find problems, monitoring mobile, increase and changes (MAC).

Although these records the size and complexity varies greatly, but one thing is common, that is, they are good or bad depends on the information they hold.

They all need to be manually updated, this sector has always been a tricky problem. Medical institutions in daily operation may ignore conservation connection record, lead connection record behind the actual situation. The system maintains data does not have a "close to accurate", or "obsolete".

If you have not read the easy and accurate patch connection, network outage will be very difficult to track down, and consumes a significant amount of time.

As a result of negligence on the disconnected server or important WAN link, you may make one segment, or even the entire network down to several hours. Due to medical institutions and NHSTrusts often in many different locations and building running distributed network that requires network services, network management and maintenance issues further. Distributed network plus the connection record, allowing technicians every day to spend a lot of time to find the problem. In addition, because of tight budgets, responsible for these mission-critical staff shortages are destined to compare.

Network managers are faced with regular audits prior to implementation, and change the move (MAC), this task requires a significant amount of time, the cost of each movement has a significant impact.

Network administrator on this work takes time and costs very headache, so put this work outsourced to wiring system installers are not uncommon. This will normally be supported by regular network audits to determine the connection mode of communication facilities, thereby further raises costs.

If you do not have a regular audit, users often find that jumper may have been connected to a hub or switch port, but they have no further connection to the workspace.

This will give people the wrong impression that there is a problem with the hub or switch capacity is saturated, networks need to increase the active device.

Solution

Intelligent wiring systems

Through the use of intelligent wiring systems real-time monitoring system, NHSTrusts and other medical institutions started to address these issues.

The connection information to the routing management software, wiring management software automatically update records, eliminates database information behind the actual situation. By using intelligent wiring systems control MAC, medical organizations no longer need multiple teams to make simple changes. In addition, intelligent wiring systems automatically audit changes, significantly reducing the cost of change.

By using intelligent wiring systems implement forward-looking physical facilities management, medical institutions can reduce downtime for reliable highly fault-tolerant network.

There is no intelligent wiring systems are able to completely prevent service disruptions and system downtime, but through the provision of network connections for accurate information, it can significantly reduce the number of service interruption and system downtime, and easier to troubleshoot. If someone has incorrectly disconnecting a jumper, network managers can be notified in real time, including by removing the jumper location and other important information. Through these details, technical personnel in a matter of minutes, not hours or days to more effectively solve the connection problem, minimize critical transactional medical IT network outage.

To be able to detect a connection in a given port also means you can electronically guided mobile, increase and changes (MAC).

The database may report incorrect connections, technical staff can immediately correct the problem. Because network management personnel to ensure the accuracy of the records, you do not have to have confidence in the audit process in advance, to eliminate the additional fees.

Some excellent intelligent wiring systems also provides extended security functions

To prevent unauthorized connection/disconnection, prevent key services-medical IT network is threatened. System in seconds, to unauthorized connection/disconnection (single non-working) reported to the network administrator, such as through a simple network-level message, e-mail or SMS. By distribution frame near mount a camera that can give non-authorized operators of photos as email attachments to the alarm system, or recorded for future investigation.

Summary

On medical institutions, networks actually has grown to be the same with the utility of a basic business.

Need at least 99.99% uptime while reducing infrastructure failure, has become the primary task of the network administrator.

In critical services-medical IT networks increase the smart distribution system creates a reliable, fault-tolerant, powerful managed physical facilities that can be distributed network remote management, break time, rate of change, security and network audit costs, achieve numerous advantages.

70% of network failure is caused by wiring, by minimizing these network failures, intelligent wiring systems can help NHSTrusts and other medical institutions of savings plan disruption event time and costs. Smart routing technology can meet at least the next 10 years of network needs.