Reasons Healthcare
Prefers Juniper Wireless
Top 10 Reasons Healthcare Prefers Juniper Wireless
Juniper’s WLAN solution delivers the highest levels
applications such as patient monitoring. When an unplanned
of reliability, scalability, management, and security
outage such as a power failure occurs, all wireless sessions on
a Juniper wireless LAN system will seamlessly and statefully
to meet the mobility needs of healthcare.
Wireless Solution for Healthcare Overview
Enterprise networks are experiencing extraordinary change,
and healthcare is no exception. Trends such as mobile
device proliferation and the increasing use of video, remote
fail over to a backup controller, with zero service disruption.
2) In-Service Software Upgrades: Juniper provides
the only wireless LAN system that allows users
to perform in-service software upgrades on a
live wireless network.
collaboration, and a vast array of rich applications are opening
up exciting new opportunities for the healthcare industry.
Unfortunately, these opportunities also come at a time of
What this means for healthcare:
downtime, etc.) is a challenge in an “always-on” healthcare
shrinking budgets, IT staff reductions, and increasing demand
environment. When an image upgrade is required (whether
for ubiquitous, “always-on” wireless service for mobile devices.
planned or in an emergency), Juniper’s WLAN solution allows
To meet this need, Juniper Networks provides a comprehensive
a centralized IT team to perform in-service software upgrades
wireless LAN solution, part of its Simply Connected product
with near zero interruption to end user service.
portfolio, which offers measurable advantages in provisioning,
security, performance, reliability, and management to address
these new realities. Combined, these advantages make Juniper
uniquely capable of addressing the changing needs of healthcare
enterprises worldwide.
Juniper’s wireless LAN solution provides an advanced architecture
that is designed specifically for mobility, with the highest and
3)Manageability: Juniper Networks is the only
vendor that allows IT administrators to manage
an entire group of controllers as one logical
entity, eliminating the need for managing many
individual controllers. Up to 16,000 access
points can be managed by 32 controllers—all as
one logical entity.
most advanced levels of reliability, scalability, manageability,
and security available today. Juniper delivers high performance
through a highly distributed, intelligent WLAN infrastructure that
What this means for healthcare:
fewer resources and better control.
forwarding from centralized controllers to access points.
many enterprise industries since the inception of the “thin access
point” revolution in 2002. Today, more than 1 million access
points are installed at over 6,000 businesses worldwide. Juniper’s
4) Simple Expansion: Juniper Networks WLAN
solution makes adds, moves, and changes
nondisruptive to user sessions and completely
automated.
What this means for healthcare:
WLAN products are now found in enterprise companies of all
sizes, including Fortune 100, government, hospitality, financial,
Unmatched manageability and scalability is built into the
network. This allows IT staff to manage their network with
allows offloading of encryption, packet inspection, and packet
Juniper Networks wireless LAN products have been deployed in
Coordination of software upgrades (alerting staff, scheduling
With growing demands of clinicians for connectivity,
expansion through new construction, and an ever increasing
and retail institutions.
number of users, supporting growth of the wireless network
10 Reasons to Choose Juniper Networks
WLAN for Healthcare
becomes a key requirement for any WLAN solution. Juniper’s
wireless LAN solution makes change management and
The healthcare market has long chosen Juniper Networks as
growth seamless. Adding a controller to the system simply
a preferred WLAN partner. Juniper has numerous healthcare
requires powering up the new controller and giving it the
customers running large, complex, mission critical WLAN
IP address of the master controller. The master controller
networks. Below are 10 of the most important reasons healthcare
downloads full configuration and sets up all real-time state. It
organizations are choosing Juniper’s WLAN solution.
also seamlessly load-balances access point capacity onto the
new controller with no user intervention.
1)Resiliency: Juniper Networks provides the only
hitless stateful failover solution for zero impact
network failover.
What this means for healthcare:
With the increased prevalence of Electronic Medical Records
(EMRs), VoWLAN, and other mobile healthcare applications,
disruptions to the wireless network can create a loss of
valuable caregiver time and result in increased threats to
patient safety. Failure of mission critical WLAN services can
break communication links between caregivers and, in worst
case scenarios, result in a complete outage affecting vital
5) Mobile Devices: Juniper Networks provides a
complete end-to-end system for provisioning
and onboarding mobile devices to the wireless
network. Juniper is the only vendor to combine
mobile device management with mobile
security for the best end user mobile experience.
What this means for healthcare:
The flood of personal mobile devices such as iPads and
smartphones into the clinical environment is placing
tremendous demands on IT staff. Responsibility for
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Top 10 Reasons Healthcare Prefers Juniper Wireless
managing the onboarding of mobile platforms can become
overwhelming. Juniper provides a complete end-to-end
system for provisioning and onboarding mobile devices to
the wireless network. Juniper Networks is the only vendor to
8) Simple Management: Juniper Networks
provides the only full lifecycle management
application in the industry, including threedimensional and spectrum analysis planning.
combine mobile device management with mobile security for
the best end user mobile experience, while at the same time
What this means for healthcare:
Juniper Networks® WLM1200 Ringmaster Appliance enables
decreasing the workload for IT administrators. Through tight
IT managers to preplan their wireless network, define building
integration with Juniper mobile security products, Juniper’s
material specifications, plan around existing interference
WLAN solution eases the process of bringing mobile devices
sources, and arrive at a fully deployable and highly accurate
onto the network. After these devices are on the network,
deployment plan. This proactive network plan ensures a high
Juniper products ensure that they stay secure. This allows IT
performing wireless network, and can be given to installers to
managers to focus on more important tasks than manually
easily and accurately install access points across the facility.
configuring devices onto the wireless network.
6) RF Expertise: Juniper Networks has the most
advanced system-wide radio frequency (RF)
intelligence, including full spectrum analysis, for
a robust end user experience.
What this means for healthcare:
Many healthcare networks struggle with poor coverage from
legacy WLAN systems, difficult to cover facilities, and high
levels of interference. Juniper understands and simplifies RF
coverage for such challenging Wi-Fi environments. Using
sophisticated RF algorithms to automatically load-balance
clients, Juniper significantly simplifies the role of IT in
managing complex RF spectrum and in providing a better end
user Wi-Fi experience.
Juniper’s WLAN portfolio of products also includes advanced
spectrum analysis into the RF planning process. This allows
IT managers to plan around existing interference sources to
deliver a completely proactive network plan and ensure a
high-performance wireless network.
9)Security: Juniper Networks is the only vendor in
the industry to seamlessly enable policy
orchestration between WLAN, VPN, network
access control (NAC), and firewall across wired
and wireless networks for a completely unified
security policy. Juniper utilizes the strength of
the Interface to Metadata Access Point (IFMAP) protocol and ecosystem to coordinate
policy and elevate policy management to a
whole new level.
What this means for healthcare:
spectrum analysis capabilities in all 802.11n access points.
This results in extremely cost-effective access points that
With centralized and uniform awareness of user identity
simultaneously provide spectrum analysis and high-speed
and role, IT staff can ensure end-to-end segmentation for
data services. Juniper enables IT managers to detect and
administrators, caregivers, contractors, pharmacy workers,
address interference sources quickly and easily, with less
and guests across both wired and wireless networks. Juniper
equipment. Juniper’s WLAN solution is purpose-built for the
Networks fortifies wireless security by integrating with the
highest performing RF/Wi-Fi experience, with consistent and
wired infrastructure. And, Juniper enables IT managers to
pervasive coverage.
apply common, consistent, and strong security policies across
7)Architecture: Juniper Networks delivers an
advanced, flexible traffic forwarding architecture
that allows customers to deploy controllers
entirely in the data center. This deployment
model comes without any loss of features or
functionality at remote sites.
What this means for healthcare:
Juniper’s WLAN management solution incorporates advanced
Consolidation and deployment of controllers in the data
center, without having to incur the management and capital
burden of controllers in every separate facility, delivers a more
the entire facility.
10)Guest Management: Juniper Networks provides
the most complete guest access application in
the industry. Juniper enables simple
management of guest access while creating a
feature-rich policy layer for granular policy
enforcement. Features such as guest self
provisioning using short message service (SMS)
allows a secure yet simple way of managing
transient user populations.
What this means for healthcare:
cost-effective, more manageable solution.
Individual departments and buildings can be responsible for
creating and managing their own guests, while IT managers
retain control and security of the guest network. By leveraging
Juniper’s WLAN solution portfolio, IT managers have full
control over what guests can access, for how long, from
where, and during what timeframe—all while complying with
regulatory guidelines for network access.
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Summary
About Juniper Networks
As healthcare relies more on mobile technology, it is imperative
Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From
to build robust, flexible, and secure WLAN networks. With
devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers,
unparalleled advantages in reliability, manageability, mobility,
Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that
performance, and security, Juniper’s WLAN solution is an excellent
transform the experience and economics of networking. The
choice for healthcare networks of all sizes. With its advanced
company serves customers and partners worldwide. Additional
architecture, simplicity of management, and seamless security,
information can be found at www.juniper.net.
Juniper Networks wireless LAN portfolio of products can easily
address mobility challenges today while preparing healthcare
customers for the demands of the future.
For More Information
For more information about Juniper WLAN solution, please see
the following links on www.juniper.net.
Solution Brochure and Datasheets
Juniper Networks Wireless LAN Solution Brochure
www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/brochures/1600052-en.pdf
WLA Series Wireless LAN Access Points Datasheet
www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/datasheets/1000359-en.pdf
WLC Series Wireless LAN Controllers Datasheet
www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/datasheets/1000360-en.pdf
Solution Briefs
Become Simply Connected with Juniper Wireless LAN
www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/solutionbriefs/3510465-en.pdf
Ensuring Nonstop System-Level Reliability for Wireless LANs
www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/solutionbriefs/3510415-en.pdf
Wireless Airspace Management for Maximum Speed and
Reliability
www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/solutionbriefs/3510407-en.pdf
Wireless Resource Management for Maximum Reliability and
Scalability
www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/solutionbriefs/3510416-en.pdf
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