Belgian Healthcare Provider ZOL Reduces Costs and Complexity

Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL) is a major healthcare provider in eastern Belgium that provides over 1000 hospital beds to the local community. By implementing a Fabric infrastructure, ZOL was able to reduce operational costs and network complexity while driving an extensive migration project.

Challenges

• Small IT team of four manages four campuses and thousands of APs, switches, and endpoints
• Increased mobility, efficiency, and security of network to keep up with rapidly evolving healthcare industry
• Lower costs and reduce complexity for 24/7 operating hospital and network
• Network segmentation abilities to maintain security

Extreme Solutions

• Extreme Fabric Connect

Results

• Simplified, structured implementation of network segmentation for medical devices, building control systems, communications, and more
• Additional accommodation for bandwidth hungry patient and visitor personal devices
• Enhanced security measures such further protect patient records an sensitive data
• Fabric infrastructure enabled hospital merger and proactive measures to address technological challenges resulting from COVID