The Foch hospital chooses SPIE Communications to deploy its full-IP convergence network
2010/04/15
SPIE Communications has been selected to manage the deployment of France's largest full-IP project, at the Foch hospital in Suresnes. This project concerns the installation of a full-IP network in a new, 25,000 sq. m building that will be the hospital's technological showcase.
The construction of the hospital's new building, which will be handed over during the second half of 2010, provides an ideal opportunity to design and install state-of-the-art technology that satisfies the requirements of clinical staff and patients.
This building will accommodate:
- A logistics centre,
- A new accident and emergency department,
- A new medical imaging centre,
- The new surgery unit,
- The intensive care and continuous care department,
- The new maternity unit (arranged over two floors).
It will be the Foch hospital's technological showcase.
The two-phase, €1 million project (Phase 1 in 2010) is organised as follows:
- Phase 0: installation of the necessary infrastructure to enable services to begin operating in September 2010,
- Phase 1: installation of infrastructure throughout the hospital as part of a programme to renovate the existing buildings.
The Foch hospital is among the first French hospitals of its size to migrate to a full-IP solution. The Cisco network being deployed is designed to support more than 2,500 IP users, not counting the hospital's patients, who will have triple-play access when the system is fully operational. A WiFi network covering all buildings will also be deployed, enabling a wide range of mobility and collaborative working services to be implemented.
