İzmir American Hospital in Türkiye Joins Hands with Huawei to Build a High-Quality Wi-Fi 7 Campus

As one of the leading medical institutions in Türkiye, Koç Healthcare is world-renowned for its excellent medical strength and international services. Headquartered in Istanbul, Türkiye, the hospital group is equipped with advanced medical facilities and world-class medical teams and is committed to providing high-quality medical services for patients.

Koç Healthcare in Türkiye offers comprehensive medical services covering multiple specialties including internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics, pediatrics, cardiology and neuroscience. Its medical team consists of experienced doctors, nurses, and medical technicians. They not only possess international expertise and skills, but also provide personalised medical care to patients in a warm and considerate manner, building a good brand image and reputation.

As Koç Healthcare continues to grow, its hospitals’ network requirements are of particular importance. In the information era, hospitals need stable and high-speed network connections to support the interconnection of medical information systems and medical devices, as well as communication and collaboration among medical personnel.

In this context, the new İzmir American Hospital should be equipped with advanced network facilities to ensure the security and privacy protection of patient information and provide a convenient working environment for medical personnel. In addition, the hospital network must have sufficient bandwidth and capacity to meet the increasing demands of data flow and network connectivity. To sum up, the hospital needs a stable and efficient network infrastructure to support ICT-based hospital construction and improve the quality of medical services.

Network Requirements of American Hospital

For network operations and maintenance (O&M), an efficient network O&M system is necessary for the hospital. Hospital networks require 24/7 monitoring and maintenance to ensure network stability and security. Therefore, the hospital must be equipped with a professional network O&M team with high O&M skills to respond to and rectify network faults in a timely manner to ensure normal hospital operations.

Furthermore, the widespread use of medical and mobile devices has made wireless networks a necessity for daily hospital work and patient diagnosis. As the wireless network enters the Wi-Fi 7 era, İzmir American Hospital needs the latest Wi-Fi 7 technology to provide faster and more reliable wireless network connections for the hospital's various services and patients. In addition, the network coverage and signal strength must be considered to ensure a good wireless network experience in all areas of the hospital.

Huawei High-Quality Wi-Fi 7 Campus, Taking Healthcare Networks to a Next Level

Huawei's High-Quality Wi-Fi 7 Campus Solution delivers a high-bandwidth, high-concurrency, low-latency wireless network for İzmir American Hospital in Türkiye. Huawei's high-end AirEngine 6776-57T Wi-Fi 7 AP supports a total of 8 streams and delivers a rate of up to 13.66 Gbps. Leveraging the advantages of the new Wi-Fi 7 protocol, such as multi-link operation (MLO), multiple resource unit (MRU), and 4096-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), the peak rate of a single terminal is multiplied compared to the Wi-Fi 6, making it perfectly suited for the high-bandwidth healthcare services of the new era and flexibly future-proof. Meanwhile, Huawei's professional network planning team has designed proper wireless locations to ensure Wi-Fi 7 coverage throughout the building. In this way, medical terminals for mobile ward rounds are not disconnected, ensuring medical efficiency.

To fully unleash the high-bandwidth capability of Wi-Fi 7, Huawei also provides an industry-leading network solution for wired networks. Huawei CloudEngine S5732-H multi-GE access switch uniquely supports flexible downlink port rate upgrade from GE to 10GE via right-to-use (RTU) licenses on demand, and future-proofing service and bandwidth upgrade without device replacement to protect investment.

What's more, Huawei's intelligent O&M platform — iMaster NCE-Campus — helps İzmir American Hospital take its network O&M experience to a new level. Based on AI capabilities, the platform can automatically detect and locate faults on the network system, reducing manual intervention by O&M personnel and improving O&M efficiency. In addition, network data can be analyzed and predicted to help the hospital detect and solve potential issues in a timely manner, preventing system faults from affecting medical services. The platform also provides a one-map visualized topology to help O&M personnel manage network elements (NEs) across the network, view and locate network faults at the link in minutes, improving network O&M efficiency by 80%.

Continuous and In-depth Cooperation to Build Smart Healthcare

In the future, Koç Healthcare will continue to work with Huawei on its journey to intelligent healthcare. The cooperation between two parties aims to optimize the healthcare process, improve healthcare efficiency, reduce healthcare costs, and provide better healthcare experience for patients through network connectivity and data sharing. Both parties believe that contributions in their respective fields will bring more innovation and progress to the Turkish healthcare industry.