Campus overview

The ReadyLinks Hospital

A firewall pair at the edge, fiber to every closet, then the coax and phone pair already in each patient room. Every device in one ReadyView pane.

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• Network Core ReadyWall · coming soon

  Two ReadyWall Enterprise firewalls in the MDF, linked to each other for redundancy, take both internet carriers. Three AX-24 fiber switches send fiber to every closet on the campus.

• Patient Floor

  One closet on level 7 reaches 36 rooms without opening a ceiling: an IPC-2C behind the TV on coax, an IPC-1T-DECORA at the phone jack on pair.

• Parking Cameras

  The deck cameras stay on the coax their analog cameras used, with an IPC-4SBNC on each pole. Tour cameras on any cable.

One network, five kinds of cable

• InternetTwo carriers into the ReadyWall pair
• FiberMDF to every closet, 10G
• ReadyLink over coaxPatient rooms on TV coax, parking cameras
• ReadyLink over phone pairPatient rooms and clinic exam rooms
• Cat6 EthernetNurse stations and access points inside 100 m, PoE++

Network core · MDF ReadyWall · coming soon

One firewall pair, one pane for everything behind it

Where the internet arrives and the fiber leaves. Click a step.

1. 1

   The rack in the MDF

   Two ReadyWall Enterprise firewalls sit on shelves at the top of the rack, joined by an HA link on two of their 25G fiber ports. Under them, three AX-24 fiber switches are stacked as one core, and an EX-48 serves the room's own Cat6.

2. 2

   Two carriers, two ways in

   Carrier A comes in from the street and carrier B from the far side of the campus. Both land on both firewalls. Lose a line and traffic moves to the other carrier; lose a firewall and the standby unit, kept in step over the HA link, takes over.

3. 3

   Fiber to every closet

   Each firewall uplinks to two of the three AX-24s, so no single switch is the only way out. From the core, fiber crosses the podium roof to the tower riser and the emergency department, and runs underground to the medical office building and the parking structure. Each closet takes it on a 10G uplink.

4. 4

   Every device in ReadyView

   The 2 firewalls, 35 switches and 258 clients on this campus are provisioned, monitored and updated in ReadyView. Click a row in the pane to find that device in the model.

Patient floor · level 7

A new network on the cable already in the rooms

Thirty-six rooms, one closet, no ceilings opened. Click a step.

1. 1

   A floor that stays open

   Level 7 has 36 patient rooms, a nurse station and one IDF closet. Every room already has a TV coax outlet or a phone jack at the bed. Those two cables carry the new network, so no room closes for cabling.

2. 2

   The IDF closet

   Five switches with every port in use: three EX-48s for the Cat6 runs inside 100 m, a GL-24xC for the TV coax and a GL-24xT for the phone pair. Fiber from the MDF lands on their uplinks, and each cable drops into the manager under its switch and rises into the corridor tray.

3. 3

   A patient room

   The bed and its headwall on one side, the TV on its arm on the other, a coax outlet behind the TV and a phone jack at the bed. New Cat6 to this room would mean opening its walls and ceiling and taking the bed out of use.

4. 4

   A room on TV coax

   Swing the TV out and the IPC-2C is on the wall behind it, between the coax outlet and the power outlet that were already there. Its two 2.5GbE PoE++ ports feed the TV and power the wall-plate access point beside it. Here each room's coax runs back to its own port; where a floor's coax goes through splitters, one port serves up to 16 rooms.

5. 5

   A room on the phone jack

   The IPC-1T-DECORA fits the phone jack's wall box at the bed and is powered over the pair from the GL-24xT. Its 2.5GbE port passes PoE to a wall-plate access point that mounts over it, drawn here pulled forward. One pair per room, point to point.

6. 6

   The nurse station on Cat6

   The station and the corridor access points are inside 100 m of the closet, so they take Cat6 home runs from the EX-48, with PoE++ on ports 1–24.

7. 7

   Every room in ReadyView

   Each room's client shows up under its host switch in ReadyView, next to the firewalls and every other closet. Click a row in the pane to find that device in the model.