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R&M’s Shielded Cat. 6 Ensures A Healthy Network For King Khaled University Hospital
Published Jul 18, 2010
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R&M (www.rdm.com), announced the successful completion of an end to end network solution for King Khaled University Hospital (KKUH), utilizing its innovative line of Cat. 6A shielded STP (Shielded Twisted Pair) cabling. The implementation is the latest in a series of successful installments for the Swiss cabling specialist in the Middle East.
As one of Saudi Arabia’s leading government health care facilities, King Khaled University Hospital is a full service hospital with currently 840 beds and plans for expansion into a Medical City. The hospital provides primary and secondary care services for Saudi patients in the Riyadh area as well as tertiary care services to all Saudi citizens on a referral basis.
Due to the Saudi government’s initiatives to provide world class health care services for its citizens, KKUH needed to upgrade and implement a state of the art network infrastructure as the foundation for offering top line health care services.
An important consideration for KKUH, however, was the presence of electromagnetic interference from hospital x-ray machines and radiology equipment which can cause serious data transfer problems. Already, slow data transfer and bad network connections were delaying important procedures. Thus, it was critical that a suitable cabling infrastructure was implemented to ensure a robust network and safeguard against electromagnetic interference.
R&M advised their most innovative shielded solution, the Cat. 6A Shielded STP (Shielded Twisted Pair) cables to be used throughout the site to achieve optimal network performance and eliminate the effects from medical imaging equipment. Shielded cabling was also recommended due to its scalability and flexibility to handle future data transmission speeds and network demands. The implementation was finished on schedule thanks to R&M’s certified local partners, and while ongoing, the hospital IT staff was pleased with the strong support shown by the local Saudi office.
Commenting on the announcement, Aamir Mohamed IT Manager, KKUH said, “Network requirements for a hospital environment are quite unique. R&M was the only vendor that offered the high quality end to end shielded cabling solution we sought to handle complex operations in a hospital while safeguarding against the effects from our medical imaging equipment and machinery. Now, post implementation, KKUH has in place a trouble free high performance network scalable for future applications.”
The Cat. 6A Shielded STP is the only product in the market where the copper module is 360° shielded against electromagnetic and radiofrequency interference. It enables uninterrupted optimized data transmission, elimination of cross talk and protects against network instability. R&M’s modular design also provides the requisite scalability needed by KKUH and allows the hospital to expand and upgrade the network with little to no increase in hardware.
Fazal Sait, Country Sales Manager, Saudi Arabia, added “R&M is very pleased to have provided KKUH an end to end network solution to meet the rigorous requirements of a hospital environment. Our ability to offer high quality zero defect components, modular design as well as certified implementation support was certainly determining factors.”
R&M cabling solutions cater to the growing demand by organizations and enterprises for high speed uninterrupted access to information across their networks. Supported by local offices in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, R&M is among the top three players in the structured cabling field in the Middle East.
For more information:
Reichle & De-Massari MEA (R&M)
Nawal Elmazozi
Marketing and Communications, R&M MEA
T: + 971 4 299 6428, ext. 107
E: nawal.elmazozi@rdm.com
W: www.rdm.com
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