Whether a large hospital or a small-town clinic, healthcare facilities depend on complex and dynamic wireless ecosystems.  These systems – sometimes consisting of tens of thousands of medical, business, and personal devices – change from one hour to the next.  Every time a client device connects or disconnects, or providers and patients move throughout a …

Any issue with a wireless network that causes decreased service, reliability, and security can result in higher patient risk, interrupted care coordination, decreased productivity, and user frustration.  Healthcare facilities can have tens of thousands of connected devices providing mission-critical care in every department.  Reliable and consistently strong network performance isn’t a nice-to-have commodity but a …

While WiFi started out as a nice-to-have convenience, it’s now a mission critical resource.  Many business devices are only WiFi compatible – such as phones, tablets, and numerous IoT devices – and the number of wireless devices on the market is only growing.  Businesses can have thousands of WiFi devices connected to the network, each …

Stressing, or stress testing, a network is a method used by IT teams to diagnose any weak performance areas and ensure that the wireless network can handle anything thrown at it. What This is not taking it easy on a network.  This is pushing the network to its limits, perhaps creating scenarios that aren’t likely …

It’s safe to say that 2020 has been the year of unexpected change.  Thanks to the global pandemic, in big ways and small ways, we’ve all found our lives, our jobs, and our social calendars upended in ways we didn’t anticipate.  In fact, you could say that change is the one thing that’s been constant …

The COVID-19 global pandemic has changed practically every way of life.  From how we do business, to how we teach our children, almost nothing has stayed exactly the same.  In no place is that truer than in healthcare.  Do a Google search for “how healthcare will change” and you’ll see plenty of articles from healthcare …

Take a look around a hospital and it is easy to see how technology has transformed healthcare.  From information and communication technology to patient and building IoT devices, providers and patients alike depend on internet-connected tools.  In turn, these tools depend on the WiFi. In the go-go-go environment of a hospital, it isn’t enough for …

Access Points (APs) create wireless local area networks (WLANs) by connecting to wired networks and then projecting a WiFi signal into a designated area.  Large office spaces, warehouses, hospitals, schools, and many other facilities depend on APs to supply the WiFi connection needed by thousands of wireless devices.  If there are any problems with access …

WiFi 6 (802.11ax) is the newest generation of WiFi.  It provides significant improvements over WiFi 5 (802.11ac), but there are important things to consider before rushing in and updating your entire network.  Let’s first take a look at how to determine if your network needs WiFi 6, and then see what the benefits will be …

Hospitals are depending more and more on WiFi networks to support life saving medical devices and applications.  With wireless technology constantly evolving, these networks must be designed with the future in mind if healthcare facilities want the highest return on investment.  Rather than working with networks that stop providing the necessary support after a few …

WiFi 6 (802.11ax) is the next generation of WiFi.  It was designed specifically to alleviate issues in high density areas and focuses on improving network efficiency.  For healthcare facilities like hospitals that have congested, high traffic, dynamic WiFi environments, this is great news. Hospital WiFi Networks The number of devices in healthcare settings continues to …

An efficient, reliable, and secure wireless network is a critical resource for skilled nursing and long-term care facilities. From health monitoring to video chats, patients, residents, and staff rely on the network to keep day-to-day operations running smoothly and to improve health and safety.  Utilizing a WiFi assurance solution to support network optimization is a …