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Maryland's Mercy Medical Center, one of the top medical facilities in the United States, is using Infoblox (News - Alert) appliances to deliver internal and external domain name resolution (DNS), IP address assignment and management (DHCP/IPAM), as well as other core network services.

 

A planned VoIP implementation expected to reach 3,000 handsets by 2010 prompted the Mercy Medical IT team to evaluate its previous core network services systems: Microsoft (News - Alert) Active Directory servers in conjunction with Excel spreadsheets to manage IP addresses. These were too cumbersome to manage, as well as being insecure and often unreliable.

 

Mercy Medical Center decided to standardize on Infoblox appliances for delivering core network services for the hospital's entire IP network and applications, including its new VoIP application. The Infoblox core network services infrastructure will provide the scalable and robust platform that will support Mercy Medical Center’s new 18-story patient care tower scheduled for launch in 2010.

 

Mark Rein, senior director of Information Technology, Mercy Medical Center noted that the Infoblox product helped them stabilize, simplify and strengthen the core network services infrastructure. He said that the team can now focus more on the tough things like the clinical applications themselves.

 

When the brand new hospital is completed in 2010, the core network services infrastructure will already be in place for a seamless transition.

 

Infoblox appliances deliver core network services and are designed for nonstop operation in high-performance networks. The Mercy Medical Center is using Infoblox appliances running as high availability pairs dispersed at two data centers in the Baltimore area. More Infoblox appliances are in a grid serving internal and external DNS, DHCP and configuration file transfer (TFTP) services.

 

Mercy Medical Center, a full service hospital delivers a comprehensive range of health services including internal medicine, obstetrics, urology, pediatrics, cardiology, rehabilitative care and emergency medicine.

 

Infoblox appliances deliver core network services, including domain name resolution (DNS), IP address assignment and management (DHCP and IPAM), authentication (RADIUS) and related services. Last month, the University of Wyoming, a provider of baccalaureate and graduate education in Wyoming, selected and deployed Infoblox appliances to deliver internal and external domain name resolution (DNS) and IP address assignment (DHCP)—core network services that play an essential role in almost all network applications.