Huawei Wi-Fi 7 Solution Helps Maxicare Continue to Lead the Philippine Medical Industry with High Technology

Maxicare, an industry-leading representative of the Philippine medical industry

Maxicare is the largest healthcare chain in the Philippines, currently serving 1.9 million customers nationwide with more than 24,000 affiliated physicians and specialists, 1,400 hospitals and clinics, 1,000 dental clinics and 180 rehabilitation, dialysis and ophthalmology centers.

Technological Frontrunners – Maxicare & Huawei

As an ICT-related student organization, Maxicare has consistently been at the forefront of technological progress. It deployed both Huawei Wi-Fi 6 when Wi-Fi 6 related products just entered the global market. Nowadays, Maxicare once again became an early adopter of Huawei Wi-Fi 7 APs. It is now considering replacing the existing Wi-Fi 5 devices in its HQ office and sites with Wi-Fi 7 devices. This change will not only improve the overall network performance but also improve the security of the network. Under the circumstances that the Wi-Fi 7 standard (IEEE 802.11be) has its preliminary agreement and some of the Wi-Fi 7 chips have been released by mainstream suppliers, Wi-Fi 7 APs are already being offered by the first manufacturers such as Huawei. Maxicare, as a frontrunner of ICT healthcare, would also love to keep up on trends in the era of Wi-Fi 7.

With the development of medical digitalization services, the company faces three challenges in the network upgrade:

Retail branches have important data. The egress gateway must support firewalls and SD-WAN, and the link type must support multiple wired network access to ensure link backup reliability.

New business requirements will determine the future transformation of network architectures to provide the resiliency, scalability, and flexibility needed to meet the demands of business growth. For example, CCTV, video conferencing, telemedicine, and medical terminals require high-speed and high-reliability networks.

The networks of the headquarters and branches are managed separately. Once a fault occurs, the network cannot be recovered in time, and services are interrupted for a long time. Fault locating is difficult.

Next Level Wi-Fi Connectivity – Huawei Wi-Fi 7 Solution:

With the ever-increasing business data in the healthcare industry, Maxicare had to consider multiple challenges and select the suitable WLAN offerings in the phase of network planning and deployment. They provide the Employees and customers with multi-band access, Gigabit connection speeds, and low latencies by leveraging Huawei’s innovative technologies such as multimedia intelligent scheduling and smart antennas. Along with Huawei’s long-term reliable product-lifecycle planning and 24/7 service support, Huawei has offered a comprehensive portfolio that enabled Maxicare to seamlessly upgrade its WLAN network while securing its investments for years to come.

To further advance Maxicare’s campus network experience, Maxicare chose Huawei Wi-Fi 7 APs AirEngine5776-26 in its office spaces and public areas outside the clinic rooms. This is also the first time for Maxicare to deploy Wi-Fi 7. Huawei's on-premise iMaster NCE Campus is selected on the controller to implement large-scale Wi-Fi 7-based LAN-WAN converged deployment. Maxicare uses Huawei's Wi-Fi 7 high bandwidth + Midun end-to-end security to complete bandwidth upgrade and customer privacy data encryption, helping Maxicare improve service quality and continue to lead the Philippine healthcare industry with high technologies.

A State-of-the-Art Solution Delivers Real Results

With its new network solution now in place, Maxicare's staff and customers will enjoy a range of benefits.

A fully redundant design and an AI-powered network monitoring service ensure an extremely robust network that delivers a fantastic user experience, further supported by application-based monitoring, a Hierarchical Quality of Service (HQoS) and AI-backed, uninterrupted roaming.

The next generation connectivity of AirEngine Wi-Fi 7 Access Points (APs) unleashes high-speed wireless connections. Wireless coverage is designed to deliver a seamless experience.

And a unified management platform monitors and operates both wired and wireless networks in real time, with AI-powered network analysis locating faults in mere seconds: this is intelligent O&M at work in the real world, delivering very real results for the benefit of all.