Corning MobileAccess and Longent Extend Indoor Wireless Capabilities for the Medical University of South Carolina
08 Junho 2011 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
Corning MobileAccess, part of Corning Incorporated’s (NYSE:GLW)
Telecommunications segment, today announced that the Medical
University of South Carolina (MUSC) has deployed its distributed
antenna system (DAS) solution. One of the United States’ top
academic health science centers, MUSC tapped Longent, a premier
integrator of Corning MobileAccess systems, for the campus-wide
wireless deployment, which covers 24 total floors and nearly 1
million square feet of indoor space.
“Deploying an indoor wireless solution in a health care
environment is far different than an implementation for an office
building or stadium, but the needs are the same – to make wireless
services a more integrated component of daily operations,” said
Rick Youngbar, founder and chief executive officer, Longent.
“Combined with the growing importance of electronic medical
records, determining how to better utilize wireless technologies is
a serious quandary for medical institutions across the country. By
enlisting Longent to design, build, and deploy an indoor wireless
solution, MUSC has ensured that their staff can use the latest and
greatest technology to better serve their patients.”
Poor quality cellular service affected not only patients and
visitors across MUSC’s facilities, but it also prevented medical
staff from gaining the full benefits of new wireless technologies.
To rectify this problem and improve indoor wireless coverage, MUSC
turned to Longent based on the integrator’s excellent track record
of improving in-building wireless and experience in the health care
space. For equipment, Longent selected the MobileAccess1000, which
greatly enhanced PCS and cellular service throughout the MUSC
campus, including their main and children’s hospitals. The improved
coverage not only makes it easier for patients and visitors to use
wireless devices, improving peace of mind for loved ones, but also
allows hospital staff to better plan for future technologies and
services. Beyond the existing services, MUSC has plans to extend
their indoor coverage to 4G LTE and add an additional carrier.
“The rapid innovation of wireless technology is of huge benefit
to healthcare institutions, but in order to make full use of these
wireless devices, the proper infrastructure must be in place,” said
Vince Dibble, manager of telecommunications and network services at
the Medical University of South Carolina.
“By enhancing our in-building wireless system, we have
essentially created 'future-ready' wireless capabilities that
enable our medical staff to better leverage mobile technologies and
wireless services today, while also supporting emerging services
like 4G running on tablets and smartphones. Our main goal was to
improve the poor quality cellular service in several of our large
buildings; not only did we solve that issue, but we also opened the
door for many future possibilities, including the use of 4G LTE as
a backup to our 802.11 network.”
The MobileAccess1000 offers flexible in-building wireless
connectivity through a single open platform that distributes
cellular services, including: CELL/PCS, AWS, public safety, paging,
and even emerging services such as 4G LTE, over a common grid of
antennas. For campus installations, the MA330 solution simplifies
the process of supporting wireless services in multiple buildings,
avoiding the burden of having to purchase additional equipment and
RF sources for each facility on campus. This combined
"Wire-it-Once" market approach reduces the costs and maintenance
burdens of OPEX-intensive-active-in-the-ceiling networks for the
hospital IT staff and one network cost effectively delivers
coverage without antenna farms on ceilings.
“The modern healthcare enterprise simply cannot afford to ignore
the importance of wireless when it comes to improving patient care
and response,” said Jeff Kunst, vice president of product
management, Corning MobileAccess. “By selecting our
MobileAccess1000 solution, the Medical University of South Carolina
has taken a major step towards ensuring that their staff, patients,
and visitors can stay connected no matter where they are on the
MUSC campus.”
For more information on Corning MobileAccess solutions and how
they can help healthcare providers achieve ubiquitous wireless
service, please visit http://www.corning.com/mobileaccess.
About the Medical University of South Carolina
Founded in 1824, the Medical University of South Carolina has
grown into one of the nation’s top academic health science centers,
complete with a 700 bed medical center (MUSC Health) and six
colleges that train nearly 2,600 health care professionals each
year. Named “One of America’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News &
World Report in 2009, MUSC Health is at the forefront of the latest
advances in medicine, with world-class physicians, groundbreaking
research and technology that is often among the first of its kind
in the world.
About Longent LLC
Longent is a premier integrator of in-building and wide-area
wireless solutions, supplying best in class design, implementation,
project management, and maintenance services. To support our
efforts, Longent utilizes Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS),
fiber-fed repeaters, Wi-Fi, and multi- and single-operator systems
in both public and private venues. Our team’s high level of
expertise in development and deployment enables us to create
customized, future-proof solutions to satisfy our customers’
wireless coverage and capacity needs. Longent’s neutral approach to
developing innovative multi-operator DAS networks is in use at
corporate campuses, hospitals, universities, airports, and malls
throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.
About Corning Incorporated
Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is the world leader in
specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on 160 years of materials
science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and
makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for
consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications
and life sciences. Our products include glass substrates for LCD
televisions, computer monitors and laptops; ceramic substrates and
filters for mobile emission control systems; optical fiber, cable,
hardware & equipment for telecommunications networks; optical
biosensors for drug discovery; and other advanced optics and
specialty glass solutions for a number of industries including
semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy and metrology.
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