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Erlanger Health System, a healthcare leader for a four-state region, chooses a converged voice and data network from Nortel Networks as a platform for advancing patient care.
Erlanger Health System - Chattanooga, Tennessee - is a non-profit, academic teaching center affiliated with the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga. Erlanger is a Level One Trauma Center for adults and the only provider of tertiary care services for the citizens of a four-state region, encompassing southeast Tennessee, north Georgia, north Alabama, and western North Carolina.
To replace separate voice and data networks in a healthcare/critical-care environment to reduce costs and complexity while addressing vendor support issues.
A complete Nortel Networks Succession Enterprise VoIP network with a data backbone based on Passport 8600 routing switches and BayStack Business Policy Switch.
Integration of separate voice and data networks onto a common infrastructure, Quality of Service (QoS) to support advanced voice communications), cost reductions in several key areas, simpler network management compared to the previous ATM configuration, and readiness for future applications and technologies as they unfold.
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