Washington's Island Hospital Chooses D-Link Switches For High-Level Support at A Lower Cost

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Customer Profile:
Washington’s Island Hospital Chooses D-Link Switches For
High-Level Support at a Lower Cost
The Challenge The Solution
The Island Hospital network was designed 11 years Availability and price were important, but since a
ago as a flat, address-based network, built on SMC hospital needs to be up and running 24x7, reliability
Island Hospital is a 43 bed switches accommodating 1000 IP addresses. A recent and stellar customer support were at the top of Island
general hospital located in hospital expansion doubled the size of the facility. The Hospital’s list of requirements. The Island Hospital
Anacortes, Washington on demand for IP addresses was further exacerbated IS staff sought advice from the local school district
the Puget Sound northwest of by the hospital’s implementation of the Vocera and the University of Washington Medical Center,
Seattle. Opened in 1962, the system, which consists of wireless communication the largest hospital in the state. Both entities were
devices worn by employees, as well as the addition using D-Link switches and were extremely satisfied.
hospital has 500 employees and
of critical medical diagnostic and imaging equipment. Completing their due diligence, the team also
last year was ranked one of the
Productivity began to suffer when 75 employees evaluated products from several competitors and it
top 100 hospitals in the country. needed the Vocera system, yet as the hospital’s needs became clear that D-Link was the way to go. D-Link
outgrew the network, there were only 13 IP addresses switches were considerably less expensive, and the
still available. company has a reputation for outstanding customer
support.
To make matters worse, the SMC switches started to
“D-Link has really great support fail. That’s when Island Hospital’s Rick Kiser, Assistant “D-Link has really great support and that is worth
and that is worth a lot. With Director of IS, called in D-Link VAR Northwest a lot. With medical needs 24x7, downtime is not
medical needs 24x7, downtime is Computer Support (NCS). NCS introduced Kiser to tolerated. Failed switches need to be replaced
not tolerated.” representatives from D-Link. It was clear that Island immediately,” said Kiser.
Hospital needed to replace every switch and add
- Rick Kiser desperately needed port capacity to the new network. Ultimately, Island Hospital chose DXS 3250 switches
Assistant Director, IS for the backbone and DXS 3227 POE D-Link switches
Department Island Hospital
Located in Anacortes, Washington, Island Hospital is known for its big-hospital range of service in a
small acute-care facility.
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as the core of its 50+ switch solution. The installation Another major concern was network security. With
was performed in house and was designed as a star lives potentially hanging in the balance and serious
type topography with two head end switches. Each regulatory compliance issues like HIPAA, a virus could
data frame is a redundant circuit. be catastrophic. The D-Link VLAN makes viruses one
DXS-3250 - 48-Port Gigabit Wireless- less thing to worry about.
Ready Switch + (4) Combo SFP Ports +
(2) Optional 10-Gig Copper/Fiber Uplinks Extreme reliability also played a major role in the
choice of D-Link switches, since a hospital network
has to be as redundant as possible. “We’re set up for
failover. Should any one switch fail, we only lose a
• ‘Wireless-ready’ Layer 2+ Switching few devices,” said Kiser. “And any time we’ve had a
for Seamless Roaming and Centralized problem I call NCS and we get a replacement switch
AP and Wired Network Management the next day. That makes me sleep better at night.”
• 48 10/100/1000 Ports with 4 Combo
SFP in 1RU Chassis
• Optional Dual 10-Gigabit Stacking/
Uplinks through Fiber XFP or Copper
CX-4
The DXS-3250 and DXS-3227P switches from
• Preconfigured ACLs Protect Against D-Link help keep Island Hospital’s network up
Known Attacks and running 24X7.
“Working with the D-Link folks we designed a VLAN
network. Each data frame is on its own VLAN, which
gives us a lot more control over the network since we
can isolate precise data frames if a virus is running
around or to perform management tasks,” said Kiser.
Island Hospital began the project by setting up a

DXS-3227P - 24-Port PoE Gigabit
dummy network, which went through a testing phase
Wireless-Ready Switch + (4) Combo for two months. Once the VLAN was up and running
SFP Ports + (1) Fixed XFP Port + (2) and the switches configured, the IS department
Optional 10-Gig Copper/Fiber Uplinks began to roll out the new network. Due to the nature
of hospital business, the implementation needed
to be gradual, as it is impossible to take the entire
• ‘Wireless-ready’ Switching for network offline at any time.
Seamless Roaming and Centralized AP
Management
• 24 10/100/1000 Ports with 4 Combo
SFP in 1RU Chassis
• Built-in XFP Interface and Optional
10-Gigabit Stacking/Uplinks
• Preconfigured ACLs Protect against
Trojans, Worms, and More
• 24 Ports of 802.3af PoE
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