Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Enables Wireless Mobility for Employees and Patients by Choosing Trapeze Networks.PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Trapeze Networks(TM), the award-winning provider of the wireless LAN (WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network ) Mobility System(TM), today announced that it has been chosen by Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc., known as Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, is a not-for-profit health care system and housing organization operated by the Wheaton Franciscan Sisters of Wheaton, Illinois. to fulfill its mandate of wirelessly enabling all of the company's facilities throughout three states. Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, the healthcare arm of Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc, headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois, is a Catholic, not-for-profit organization with more than 100 health and shelter organizations in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Colorado. The Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare system, which staffs over 22,000 employees, includes 17 hospital campuses, four long-term care facilities, two home health agencies, 3,563 physicians and 70 clinic sites at which 598 employed physicians practice. It also has joint ventures that include MRI 1. (application) MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2. MRI - Measurement Requirements and Interface. centers, dialysis centers, industrial medicine services, and physician partnerships. To date, in Wheaton Franciscan's Iowa region, approximately 30 of the company's 100 facilities have been installed with Trapeze equipment, including four MX-400(TM) switches designed for data center deployment, two MXR-2(TM) branch office switches, over 150 Trapeze Mobility Point(TM) radios and RingMaster(TM), Trapeze's pre- and post-deployment planning, configuration, and monitoring software tool. Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare currently supports a mix of wireless data to ensure security, including WPA WPA: see Work Projects Administration. WPA in full Works Progress Administration later (1939–43) Work Projects Administration U.S. work program for the unemployed. and WPA2, which is based on the Advanced Encryption Standard (cryptography, algorithm) Advanced Encryption Standard - (AES) The NIST's replacement for the Data Encryption Standard (DES). The Rijndael /rayn-dahl/ symmetric block cipher, designed by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, was chosen by a NIST contest to be AES. and offers the strongest encryption available today. In this first phase of production in Waterloo, Iowa and the surrounding area, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare is rolling out wireless services to 200 employees who use laptops, tablet PCs and PDAs. Longer term, it will utilize the Trapeze WLAN Mobility System to support voice-over-wireless phones and guest Internet access for patients. Over the next two years, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare estimates that it will deploy over 1,400 Trapeze Mobility Points throughout its campuses in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare did a head-to-head comparison of wireless LAN hardware and software solutions from Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Trapeze Networks. Technology operation officials evaluated wireless range, data throughput, wireless security, ease of configuration, reporting capabilities, overall manageability and value. "We decided to buy our wireless gear from Trapeze after we did our head-to-head evaluation with other vendors and found Trapeze to have the best management, security and value," said Larry Griffith, director of technology operations for Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare. "So far, Trapeze has exceeded our expectations through ease of deployment, robust management features, and the exceptional level of support we're receiving from the company." About Trapeze Networks Trapeze Networks delivers the power of business applications and services to the mobile enterprise workforce. The company's wireless LAN Mobility System enhances productivity, introduces new efficiencies and accelerates business response time by delivering secure mobility for roaming users and sophisticated services for both users and IT, all while offering the lowest total cost of ownership of any WLAN infrastructure provider. Trapeze announced a partnership with Motorola (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :MOT) in August 2005, a partnership with 3Com Corp. (NASDAQ:COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ) in August 2004, a partnership with both D-Link and Nortel (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NT)(TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension :NT) in March 2005, and a partnership with Enterasys Networks in May 2005. Trapeze has also been the recipient of eleven industry awards, including InfoWorld's Technology of the Year award for the best WLAN solution in recognition of its product and technology strength. Founded in March 2002, Trapeze has raised $72.5 million in venture funding to date and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, U.S.A. For more information, please visit www.trapezenetworks.com. Trapeze Networks, the Trapeze Networks logo, the Trapeze Networks flyer icon, Mobility System, Mobility Exchange, MX, Mobility Point, MP, Mobility System Software, MSS, RingMaster, AAA AAA: see American Automobile Association. (Triple A) A common single-cell battery used in a myriad of electronic devices of all variety. Like its double A (AA) cousin, it provides 1.5 volts of DC power. When used in series, the voltage is multiplied. Integration and RADIUS Scaling, ActiveScan, AIRS, Bonded Auth, FastRoaming, Granular Transmit Power Setting, GTPS GTPS Government Telephone Preference Scheme (British system for limiting outgoing calls from landlines if the network is overloaded during an emergency) GTPS Gigatransfers Per Second GTPS Ghorasal Thermal Power Station , GuestPass, Layer 3 Path Preservation, Location Policy Rule, LPR See LPR/LPD. lpr - Line printer. The Unix print command. This does not actually print files but rather copies (or links) them to a spool area from where a daemon copies them to the printer. , Mobility Domain, Mobility Profile, Passport-Free Roaming, SentryScan, Time-of-Day Access, TDA, TAPA, Trapeze Access Point Access Protocol, Virtual Private Group, VPG, Virtual Service Set, Virtual Site Survey and WebAAA are trademarks of Trapeze Networks, Inc. Trapeze Networks SafetyNet is a service mark of Trapeze Networks, Inc. All other products and services are trademarks, registered trademarks, service marks or registered service marks of their respective owners. (C) 2006 Trapeze Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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