UK’s Best Hospital of 2007 Improves Medical Services with Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays

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(Free-Press-Release.com) May 12, 2009 --

Xirrus, Inc., the Wi-Fi "Power-Play" that delivers the most wireless coverage, bandwidth, and throughput in the industry announced today that the world-renowned Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust (RJAH Hospital) located in Shropshire, England has selected Xirrus’ Wi-Fi Arrays to be deployed Hospital-wide. Xirrus was selected over other Wi-Fi vendors to replace RJAH Hospital’s legacy controller-based Wi-Fi network because only the Xirrus Wi-Fi Array’s distributed architecture is capable of providing the coverage, bandwidth, and RF control to support all the medical personnel and applications. The Xirrus high performance Wi-Fi network will provide patient information, prescription services, e-Mail, web browsing, and guest access today with the capability of supporting VoWi-Fi, RFID tracking, and Wireless CCTV in the near future.

RJAH Hospital is an NHS Hospital specializing in bone and joint disorders along with spinal disorders and metabolic disorders affecting muscular development. With a worldwide reputation for innovation and research, RJAH Hospital was voted Best Hospital by patients in the 2007 National Healthcare Commission Survey (United Kingdom) and had the highest score of all NHS Hospitals for Overall Rate of Care Received in the 2007 National Inpatient Survey (United Kingdom).

“At RJAH, we work hard to ensure our patients receive the absolute best care possible,” said Richard Jones, IT Systems Support Engineer at RJAH. “With all the medical advances pertaining to wireless applications and services, we found our existing 802.11b/g centralized controller architecture had several problems related to interference, coverage, and user capacity. We did not have control over the RF management and shaping – we wanted a visual representation of the area each Access Point was covering and what was going on within that RF environment.”

“We selected Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays, along with their Management System, to give us the desired RF control and to drastically increase the amount of wireless bandwidth distributed among our staff,” continued Richard. “Unlike other vendors, Xirrus designed their products to include multiple radios with directional antennas, thereby increasing the RF range and shaping capabilities, making it far easier and more cost efficient to deploy, manage, and maintain a wireless network. With the Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays, we will have the performance needed to roll out patient information and prescription drug services in order to operate more efficiently and improve medical services and patient care.”

"RJAH Hospital has been adding and tweaking their existing Wi-Fi network for some time, but with very little improvement to the overall service,” said Chris Allen, Regional Manager (UK) at Xirrus. “To cover the areas required, the Hospital would have needed to install countless more access points, cable runs, and workgroup switches. Deploying a Xirrus Wi-Fi network has given them access

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