Philips IntelliVue Patient Monitors wins Aruba's interoperability certification

Philips healthcare has obtained Aruba interoperability certification for its IntelliVue Patient Monitors operating on multi-use Aruba 802.11 wireless LANs that are suitable for healthcare voice, data, and video applications.

The interoperability certification testing included Aruba's 802.11a/b/g and 802.11n access points. Tests included inter-access point and inter-controller roaming, wireless LAN security, quality of service (QoS), and Aruba's role-based firewall protection of Philips devices.

"Aruba's proven interoperability with Philips IntelliVue Clinical Network solutions provides our mutual customers with greater flexibility in selecting the best network to meet their needs," said Theresa Poole, Philips Healthcare's Senior Product Manager, Clinical Networks. "Using a wireless LAN to provide network access for patient monitors requires advanced wireless networking capabilities to ensure reliable operation. Aruba's wireless LAN infrastructure, used in conjunction with our 802.11a wireless patient monitors and voice applications, provides that assurance."

Aruba's Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) technology automatically optimizes Wi-Fi performance, an essential requirement in a healthcare facility's dynamically changing and challenging RF environment. By automating site surveys and using infrastructure-based controls to optimize the performance of Wi-Fi clients in real-time, ARM helps ensure that data, voice, video, monitoring, and nurse call applications all have sufficient network resources, including airtime, to operate reliably.

The firewall classifies on the basis of user identity, device type, location, and time of day, and provides differentiated access for different classes of users.

These features enable data, voice, video, nurse call, monitoring, and guest traffic to simultaneously run over a shared, common Wi-Fi infrastructure but perform like isolated networks. "One commonly shared high-speed wireless LAN can now be used to support a wide variety of critical services including patient monitoring and voice-call," said Manav Khurana, Aruba's head of industry marketing. "Aruba's integrated role-based firewall provides an added layer of protection against network intrusion attempts, while VLAN pooling makes the correct VLAN available to the patient monitor anywhere there is Wi-Fi coverage."

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