Healthcare Case Studies

Read each healthcare case study below to see how Sunesys dark fiber was successful in optimizing telecommunications for three major medical centers.

Englewood Hospital and Medical Center

Metropolitan Area Network

Client:  
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center is the largest voluntary acute care hospital in Bergen County and the third largest in the state of New Jersey. It is a center of education and research with emphasis on state-of-the-art patient care, teaching and research.

Solution:
Sunesys provided a dedicated dark fiber optic network to connect three locations in Englewood and Cresskill, NJ. The network provided the robust bandwidth and security necessary for several existing and new applications, such as PACS, electronic medical records and a new data center.

Quote:
"The Sunesys dark fiber solution will allow us to meet and exceed our long-term goals. It eclipsed its competitors both technically and financially, and was more competitively priced than any other option."

Neville Lee
Infrastructure Support Manager
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
Englewood, NJ

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Children's Memorial Hospital

Using Sunesys to connect Research Center

Client:
The Children's Memorial Research Center is the research arm of Children's Memorial Hospital, located in the heart of Lincoln Park, in Chicago, Illinois. Children's Memorial Hospital has 125-year history of providing compassionate care in a family-centered environment.

Background:
CMRC wanted to dramatically speed up its connection to a research facility on the nearby campus of Northwestern University. This would allow CMRC to enjoy real-time collaboration and data sharing with their colleagues at Nothwestern, as well as in other research centers around the world.

Solution:
The Sunesys solution wan an extremely high-speed Dark Fiber connection linking CMRC to Northwestern University-- a Sunesys client. CMRC can now communicate with Northwestern and a variety of other research universities at lightning speed, enjoying real-time collaboration and the transfer and sharing of mass quantities of data without delay.

"Sunesys was already putting up the network at Northwestern, and they agreed to run a slightly different route to accommodate our needs and loop us in. It worked out perfectly."

Jason Ruprecht
Director, Information Technologies
Children's Memorial Research Center
Chicago, IL

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Cooper University Hospital

Metropolitan Area Network

Client:

Cooper University Hospital is the leading provider of comprehensive health services, medical education and clinical research in southern New Jersey and the Delaware Valley.  Cooper University Hospital offers an extensive ambulatory care network that includes more than three dozen offices throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

 

Background:

Presented with the challenge of reducing both scheduled and unscheduled downtime, the IT Infrastructure division at Cooper University Hospital, along with Cisco Systems and Dimension Data, redesigned the core of their network to achieve 100% redundancy, scale bandwidth, and reduce complexity by eliminating a complex protocol (migrated from ATM to Gigabit Ethernet).  In order to implement this design, divergent and separate physical fiber paths were required, and the current service provider (AT&T) was incapable of doing so as part of the existing SONET Ring.  CUH then sought out comparative designs from mulitple carriers including Sunesys, which already had been leveraged to connect outlying outpatient practice back to a main node on the core network.  What Sunesys was able to provide that the other carries were not, was a truly simplistic dark fiber solution that allowed for exponential bandwidth scalability without an additional cost to the carrier.  No other carrier was able to propose a solution that unbundled an unneeded and undesired managed service, which essentially doubled  their cost in comparison to Sunesys.

 

Quotation:

"I've worked with a number of carriers, and Sunesys is the only one that has consistently not over promised and under delivered in respect to installation time and delivery of the product.  The migration from the AT&T SONET Ring to the Sunesys dark fiber was performed with minimal downtime and with zero issues.  Cooper University Hospital is now poised to scale from 1,000Mbps to 10,000Mbps as needed and without additional cost to carrier, which is absolutely the single most differentiating factor that Sunesys has to offer.  The core of the CUH network is now 100% redundant, scalable, and comparatively simplistic (Ethernet and IP) with protocol transparency and flexibility.  The icing on the cake is the clean and accurate billing, which is a far cry from any other carrier!"

 

Michael Sinno

Director, IT Infrastructure