 During the past few years, healthcare facilities such as hospitals and other care centers have been rapidly deploying critical applications over the Internet to send patient records, schedule physicians and facilities, archive digital images, support telemedicine programs, and to improve many other daily operations.
Healthcare organizations are realizing the many benefits of using the Internet to share information and communicate between physicians, care providers, administrators and patients. Healthcare applications that are Internet-based are powerful and sophisticated, and the Internet infrastructure supporting them has become a critical component. Through the use of the Internet, business processes are being streamlined, business operations are becoming more efficient, costs are being reduced, and patients are receiving more immediate and more effective care. Internet-based healthcare applications are improving the way healthcare facilities work and communicate.
Deploying fast and reliable healthcare applications over the Internet presents many technical and business challenges due to the underlying WAN infrastructure, as WAN reliability and performance is for the most part, out of the network administrator’s direct control. The issues they are confronted with include affordable and flexible scalability, network reliability, and the increase in the number of complex applications that over-burden WAN links, causing network congestion and bottlenecks. Add to this the compounding effects of service provider outages, which place added pressures on an already over-burdened IT staff.
Ensuring hospital business continuity through the reliable and fast delivery of critical applications that need to be continuously available, while providing optimum performance is critical to the success of any healthcare organization. Users of these applications must have immediate access, as poor performance or inability to quickly access critical data, such as patient records, can be disastrous.
Ecessa leads the industry in driving the price/performance value for link-based WAN optimization controllers to levels that small and medium sized healthcare organizations can afford. Ecessa’s PowerLink™ and ShieldLink™ provide 100% uptime at one-third the cost of other competing products. With their versatile and powerful architecture, PowerLink and ShieldLink provide the highest value, while enabling healthcare professionals to optimize their businesses which rely on Internet-based infrastructure to share information and communicate between physicians, care providers, administrators and patients.
Until recently, even basic WAN link aggregation was cost prohibitive for small-to-medium sized healthcare organizations. This left a large void in the WAN optimization market for small-to-medium size organizations that were not able to find adequate, high-value products that met their needs, and that were priced within their financial means.
However, that has all changed with Ecessa’s introduction of PowerLink and ShieldLink, delivering powerful, stable, full-featured inbound and outbound WAN and ISP link aggregation, load balancing and failover, and VPN load balancing and failover within a single device. Ecessa’s products provide an additional layer of protection by shielding end-users from ISP outages and WAN link bottlenecks, enabling network administrators to automatically direct users away from failed or degraded WAN links to ensure uptime and performance requirements. At a starting price of only $1,295, including 90 days of free service and support from U.S.-based factory technicians, a 30-day money-back guarantee, and a three-year warranty, the Ecessa family of products brings affordability and advanced technology to the healthcare industry.
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