Allied Telesis Showed Networking and Cloud Storage Solutions

In response to the challenges hospitals face to move and store multiple terabytes of radiology images, Allied Telesis, Inc., in IP/Ethernet networking solutions for enterprise, network service provider, and government institutions, announced demonstrations and activities highlighting the performance benefits achieved using high-capacity networking and cloud-based storage at the annual RSNA meeting in Chicago.

Electronic Medical Records (EMR) implementation, as mandated by the federal government, takes center stage in many medical facilities. This, in turn, necessitates the integration of departmental IT systems and services over a common network. Radiology places the largest demand on such networks due to the volume and size of the Picture and Archiving Communications System (PACS) imaging files, with single files as large as 54 megabytes for a single mammography image. In addition, radiology requires maximum data security, high network availability, and cost-efficient back-up archiving. Allied Telesis provides solutions to these challenges, as demonstrated in its deployments in more than 600 hospitals and clinics worldwide.

In the Allied Telesis booth at RSNA, the Company was demonstrating an EMR network solution to support the demands of radiology for moving, accessing, and archiving PACS imaging from the workstation to the cloud. The purpose of the demonstration is to show how a combination of bandwidth, capacity, QoS and resiliency designed into the network can deliver more efficiency, better quality of care, and increased productivity for radiologists and technicians. It will also feature the benefits and economies of utilizing cloud-based storage and virtualization to achieve optimum outcomes.

In cooperation with several key healthcare technology partners, Allied Telesis is demonstrating how cloud-based radiology solutions and networks operate in a real-world PACS environment. A web-based PACS/RIS system, a high density virtualized storage system, and a bedside point-of-care system are connected over a resilient high speed network to move and retrieve images. In addition, a demonstration shows how imaging can be visualized using advanced 3D technology.

Allied Telesis will included demonstrations of its NET.Monitor service, which adds value to healthcare IT by providing real-time network and server monitoring, diagnostics, and troubleshooting remotely as a managed service. To simplify network upgrades for EMR or implementing cloud-based data storage, Allied Telesis provides a professional services ranging from network assessment and design to complete systems integration.

"Patient care today demands a non-stop network and reliable data storage in the era of electronic records," noted Keith Southard, president and CEO of Allied Telesis Capital Credit Corporation. "It is critical to optimize the cloud for storage and virtualization of information, and to have network infrastructure designed to the demands for moving high volumes of data. Allied Telesis brings together the combination of technology and expertise necessary to meet these demands, and at the same time lower the TCO."