Healthcare
Client
One of the largest healthcare institution in the country, spread over a 120 acres campus
Challenges
- Low Performance Network without adequate redundancy
- Mix of Legacy, Proprietary, Open Source, Standards based application platforms that were increasing the demands on IT Infrastructure and Resource Pools
- High Operational cost, year on year
- Centralized Data Center without Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Plan
- High Operational cost, year on year
- Lack of an effective collaboration platform to improve Healthcare services
- Need for an effective Emergency Response System
- Need for mobility within the network
- Stronger Security to ensure data security to comply with global standards
Solution:
- Our first task was to capture the existing infrastructure and the functional roles of the same
- Next it was required to map the infrastructure to the various stake holders and create a matrix of their pain areas
- Once the data was captured and collated, our next task was to arrive at a high level architecture of the proposed infrastructure solution which was brainstormed with the stake holders till the final solution was firmed. The solution included the following:
- A 3 Tier Network Architecture: Core - Distribution Access
- A Passive Network that facilitates the 3 Tier Architecture
- Migration from Fast Ethernet to 10 Gigabit Backbone and 1 Gigabit Ethernet to Users with redundancy
- A unified communication and collaboration system with emergency response integration
- An Enterprise level Security platform with High Availability
- Design and Build of a Disaster Recovery Data Center with Business Continuity Plan
- Seamless mobility across campus over wireless with demarcation of Organizational users and Guest users
- An Enterprise level Security platform with High Availability
- Migration to a standards based application platform with virtualization
- Implementation of change management process, continuous improvement process, infrastructure management process