Method for solving wiring facilities in medical IT network
Today, the quality, performance, and management of network facilities play a direct and measurable role in the IT strategy and the performance and reliability of the entire organization. The need for "high availability" networks while reducing infrastructure failures has become the top priority for network managers.
Information technology and its electronically stored information play a key role in NHS 'plans to improve quality, speed and capacity.
The structured wiring system is mainly a hidden infrastructure composed of wires and patch panels, which lays a key foundation for a local area network (LAN).
According to generally accepted statistics, 70% of network failures are caused by wiring. This is not to say that there is a problem with the system purchased by various institutions. On the contrary, modern cabling is a stable system that rarely fails. In fact, most network faults caused by wiring are caused by improper management. Problems such as poor control methods and file management methods must be resolved.
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Network availability
High-availability networks are usually represented by 99.99% of the available time, which means that the network is unavailable for only 0.01% of the time (53 minutes in a year). This is obviously unacceptable in a medical environment that takes life-saving and wound-care as a duty and operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because medical institutions cannot control the actual time of occurrence of these failures. Because structured cabling systems are often used in critical medical equipment, any infrastructure failure will cause catastrophic consequences that may endanger the lives of patients. In addition, failures may be distributed in different places, further increasing the potential harm and cost. In fact, 100% availability is impossible, but we can take measures to significantly reduce the frequency and time of network failures.
Now, the intelligent wiring system has taken shape in the market and can monitor the network in real time. Effective management of the physical layer not only brings obvious management advantages and cost advantages, but also helps to achieve a well-managed and reliable elastic network, minimizing infrastructure failures in mission-critical medical IT networks.
Effective management of the physical layer requires comprehensive, up-to-date, 100% accurate connection records in order to find problems and monitor the implementation of moves, additions, and changes (MAC).
Although the size and complexity of these records vary greatly, they have one thing in common, that is, their quality depends on the information they maintain. They all need to be updated manually, which has always been a difficult issue for medical institutions. Medical institutions may neglect to maintain connection records in their daily operations, causing connection records to lag behind actual conditions. The data held in the system varies, some are "close to accurate" and some are "completely outdated".
If you do not read the simple and accurate patch connection records, it will be difficult to track the fault when the network is interrupted, and it will take a lot of time. Inadvertently disconnecting the server or important WAN link may interrupt a network segment or even the entire network for several hours. Since medical institutions and NHSTrusts often run distributed networks in many different locations and buildings, these require network services, so network management and maintenance problems have further emerged. The distributed network coupled with poor connection records makes technicians spend a lot of time every day looking for problems. In addition, due to tight budgets, the personnel responsible for these critical tasks are destined to be in short supply.
Network managers are faced with the issue of regularly auditing movements, additions and changes (MAC) before implementation. This task requires a lot of time and has a significant impact on the cost of each movement. Network administrators have a headache for the time and cost of this work, so it is not uncommon to outsource this work to the cabling system installer. This is usually supplemented by regular network audits to determine the connection mode of the communication facility, which further incurs costs.
Without regular audits, users often find that jumpers may have been connected to hubs or switch ports, but they have not been further connected to the work area. This will give the wrong impression that the problematic hub or switch capacity has been saturated and active equipment needs to be added to the network.
solution
Intelligent wiring system
By adopting an intelligent wiring system real-time monitoring system, NHSTrusts and other medical institutions began to solve these problems. The connection information is sent to the wiring management software, and the wiring management software automatically updates the records, eliminating the possibility of the database information lagging behind the actual situation. By using an intelligent wiring system to control the MAC, medical institutions no longer need simple changes from multiple teams. In addition, the intelligent wiring system automatically audits the changes, greatly reducing the cost of the changes.
By using intelligent cabling systems to implement forward-looking physical facility management, medical institutions can reduce downtime and achieve a reliable and highly fault-tolerant network. No intelligent wiring system can completely prevent service interruption and system downtime, but by providing accurate information about network connections, it can significantly reduce service interruption and system downtime, and more easily troubleshoot. If someone unplugs a jumper by mistake, the network administrator can get real-time notifications, including important information such as the location of the jumper that was unplugged. With these details, technicians can solve connection problems more effectively in minutes instead of hours or days, minimizing downtime for mission-critical medical IT networks.
Being able to detect a connection in a given port also means that movement, addition and modification (MAC) can be guided electronically. The database can report incorrect connections, and the technician can correct the problem immediately. Because network managers have confidence in the accuracy of the records, there is no need to pre-audit this process, eliminating additional costs.
Some excellent intelligent wiring systems also provide extended security functions that can prevent unauthorized connections / disconnections and prevent critical business-critical medical IT networks from being threatened. The system can report unauthorized connections / disconnections (non-work order arrangements) to the network administrator within seconds, such as through simple network-level messages, emails, or text messages. By installing a camera near the distribution frame, you can send the photos of unauthorized operators as e-mail attachments to the alarm system or record them for future investigation and use.
to sum up
For medical institutions, the Internet has actually developed into a basic business equivalent to public utilities. At least 99.99% of uptime is required, while reducing infrastructure failures has become a top priority for network administrators.
Adding intelligent wiring systems to mission-critical medical IT networks creates a reliable, fault-tolerant, and powerful controlled physical facility that can realize many advantages in remote management of distributed networks, outage time, rate of change, security, and network audit costs. . 70% of network failures are caused by wiring. By minimizing these network failures, intelligent wiring systems can help NHSTrusts and other medical institutions save time and costs caused by unplanned outages. Intelligent wiring technology can meet the network requirements for at least the next 10 years.
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