Colubris Networks, the leading global provider of intelligent wireless LANs (WLANs) for enterprises and service providers, today announced that its wireless products are certified to support SpectraLink’s NetLink Wireless Telephones, providing a high quality voice over wireless LAN (VoWLAN) solution for the healthcare market. This announcement was made today at the HIMSS07 Annual Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans and demonstrates the continued partnership commitment between Colubris and SpectraLink.
Hospitals and other healthcare organizations are quickly realizing the benefits of wireless applications in their organizations. Wireless mobility ultimately leads to increased efficiency and enhanced patient care. By deploying VoWLAN technology in hospital and healthcare organizations, staff can better communicate with each other and exchange information in real-time.
The new solution integrates the award-winning Colubris Intelligent Mobility System (CIMS) with SpectraLink NetLink Wireless Telephones. CIMS is the industry’s first optimized WLAN switching system, composed of Colubris multiservice controllers, multiservice access points and a central network management system. CIMS enables healthcare organizations to extend the services of a wired network infrastructure to wireless users, delivering a more diverse set of applications, providing network access via a multitude of devices and ultimately boosting productivity. With CIMS, healthcare organizations can use NetLink Wireless Telephones to improve patient care by:
• Providing staff instant access to critical information
• Making nurses more accessible to patients, physicians and other staff
• Enhancing departmental coordination so patients and staff spend less time waiting
• Improving staff efficiency by eliminating public address pages and time spent playing phone tag
• Allowing physicians to multitask while moving throughout the facility
• Ensuring privacy and security through discreet communication
Colubris earned VIEW (Voice Interoperability for Enterprise Wireless) Certification from SpectraLink last year. This certification ensures interoperability and high performance between SpectraLink’s NetLink Wireless Telephones and Colubris’ Wi-Fi infrastructure. This testing assures customers a trouble-free installation and gives them confidence that the Colubris and SpectraLink products will work well together and provide high call quality and VoIP performance.
“Smart healthcare organizations know that by deploying wireless technology, they can realize greater efficiencies in terms of time and the level of care provided to patients,” said Ben Guderian, SpectraLink vice president of marketing. “By testing and certifying our technology with Colubris’, we can offer healthcare organizations enterprise-grade Wi-Fi telephony that allows them to perform their jobs more effectively from anywhere within their organization.”
The Colubris Intelligent Mobility System uses distributed intelligence to enforce QoS at the access point, which is critical when converging voice and data applications on a common wireless LAN. Based on an optimized WLAN switch architecture, CIMS delivers comprehensive, enterprise-quality VoIP support, including fast seamless handoffs as users roam between access points and continuous 7×24 security monitoring without compromising VoIP performance.
“SpectraLink is a proven leader in wireless voice solutions and its technology is in use at more than 2,000 hospitals across North America,” said Chris Koeneman, co-president and vice president of worldwide sales of Colubris Networks. “With Colubris and SpectraLink technology, all healthcare organizations can quickly and easily deploy a secure, highly reliable VoWLAN solution for immediate results.”
Colubris and SpectraLink share common channels of distribution, making the solution easily accessible to resellers serving the healthcare industry.
About Colubris
Colubris Networks is the leading global provider of intelligent wireless networks (WLANs) for enterprises and service providers. Its optimized WLAN switching systems deliver unmatched bandwidth efficiency, seamless mobility and secure, easy access for more than 1,500 organizations and 40 million users worldwide. Its systems unify and integrate with existing network infrastructures, security and management systems and provide “future-proof” investment protection as standards evolve and user populations grow. Colubris’ numerous recognitions include Red Herring’s top 100 private companies in North America, Fierce Wireless Fierce 15 and Mobile Trax Mobility Award.
