At a glance.
Lurie Children's Hospital
Industry Size1,200 physicians4,000 employees
Solutions UsedIllinois
The need.
- Build a high-speed connection between the main research institute and the research facility at Northwestern University.
- Allow colleagues at separate facilities to collaborate and share data in real time.
- Establish Lurie Children’s Hospital as a world-class research facility with the ability to connect with researchers around the world.
The solution.
- We built a high-speed dark fiber network to connect the facilities.
- By leveraging our existing network, we were able to find efficiencies and reduce costs.
Jason R. Director, Information Technologies, Lurie Children鈥檚 Hospital杏吧原创 agreed to slightly alter the route they were building for another client to accommodate our needs and loop us in. It worked out perfectly.
The impact.
- Researchers are able to share and transfer extremely large data files and collaborate in real time with colleagues in different locations.
- With a faster, more efficient network, Lurie Children’s Hospital is able to provide better patient care, improve the patient experience and become a world-class research facility.
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