Enloe Medical Center Connects and Tracks Nearly 30,000 Devices While Saving 1,800 IT Hours Annually by Expanding its Aruba ESP Network with EdgeConnect and Location Services
January 30 2023 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
New SD-WAN Network and Real-Time Asset Tracking
Ensure Patient-Centered Healthcare Leader Can Deliver
Next-Generation Care to Residents Across Six Counties
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today
announced that Enloe Medical Center, a nationally-recognized,
locally-governed, nonprofit, comprehensive healthcare facility
based in Chico, California, is expanding its end-to-end Aruba
network by adding Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN gateways and Aruba
Location Services. The expansion ensures Enloe can continue
delivering world-class patient care by doubling branch networking
capacity to each of its nearly 30 locations, providing reliable
high-performance connectivity, and permitting the efficient
management of nearly 30,000 connected devices. The deployment also
enables Enloe to rapidly track thousands of pieces of vital
healthcare equipment while saving 1,800 IT hours annually via
advanced network automation.
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In a modern healthcare environment, where data, telehealth
streaming, connected medical equipment, and mobility play critical
roles, Enloe’s network is vital to supporting the institution’s
ongoing tradition of innovation. This tradition includes being one
of the few medical centers nationally – of any size – with an MRI
Linear Accelerator, which requires network connectivity, for
exceptionally precise cancer radiation treatments. With its new
wired, wireless, and SD-WAN network Enloe can continue to
innovate.
“Aruba ensures we can resiliently connect all of our healthcare
providers, their devices, and our critical applications, like our
extensive Epic electronic medical record (EMR) implementation, all
of the time – guaranteeing access to whatever our staff needs,
whenever they need it, so they can concentrate on treating their
patients,” said Christopher Webb, Director of Technology for Enloe.
“Our new EdgeConnect SD-WAN and location services solutions supply
us the reliable and secure technologies we need to continue our
long-standing commitment to patient-centric excellence.”
In addition, the capability to reduce IT overhead
enterprise-wide enables re-investing in further healthcare
innovation. “We provision and deploy 150 to 300 new devices
monthly,” said Webb. “Using Aruba’s automation features, we’re able
to re-direct IT time to higher-value, critical initiatives like
supporting the development of a new 200,000 sq. ft. cancer
center.”
For its SD-WAN, Enloe has added EdgeConnect to its wireless
solution, comprised of Aruba’s access points (APs) and mobility
controllers. On the wired side, the institution has implemented
Aruba’s CX Series switches for the data center core along with
access and aggregation switches.
Asset tracking is accomplished by combining the location
awareness resident in Enloe’s Aruba APs with Aruba Location
Services and Aruba Tags.
“Aruba’s business-friendly location services solution empowers
our non-technical supply department to own and manage the process
for tagging and tracking assets,” Webb said. “What’s more, Aruba’s
flexible and advanced technology enabled us to simply leverage our
existing Wi-Fi infrastructure for asset tracking, rather than
requiring a forklift upgrade.”
Enloe is also streamlining wired, wireless, and SD-WAN policy
administration using Aruba’s integrated zero trust security
capabilities. This includes rolling out Aruba Dynamic Segmentation
along with Aruba ClearPass for network security policy management,
as well as the ability to support consistent and automated
policy-based network access control (NAC) across Enloe’s
enterprises to support healthcare workers, administrative staff,
and guests.
Moving forward, Enloe plans to evolve its future-ready network
by adopting automated IT operations features using Aruba Central
for comprehensive cloud-based artificial intelligence IT operations
(AIOps) that provides AI-powered insights, workflow automation, and
edge-to-cloud security while unifying wired, wireless, and SD-WAN
management.
“Having worked with multiple networking companies, we value our
ongoing partnership with Aruba as the best we’ve experienced by
far,” noted Webb. “Aruba’s solutions perform as advertised, they’re
issue-free, and they’re extremely agile. In short, they just
work.”
About Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is the global
leader in secure, intelligent edge-to-cloud networking solutions
that use AI to automate the network, while harnessing data to drive
powerful business outcomes. With Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform)
and as-a-service options as part of the HPE GreenLake family, Aruba
takes a cloud-native approach to helping customers meet their
connectivity, security, and financial requirements across campus,
branch, data center, and remote worker environments, covering all
aspects of wired, wireless LAN, and wide area networking (WAN).
To learn more, visit Aruba at www.arubanetworks.com. For
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Kathleen Keith Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
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