Everything connects at new clinical education centre
The AMP Netconnect division of US-based Tyco Electronics, in
conjunction with installer ACI, has supplied a structured cabling system
with 1200 outlets for the new Clinical Education Centre of the University
Hospital of North Staffordshire.
The system is unusual in that it handles communications traffic for a
variety of applications in addition to voice and data. These include the
door access-control system, audiovisual aids, internal cameras, smart
vending machines, copiers, Freeview and terrestrial TV channels, and
videoconferencing. Equipment in each lecture room or laboratory can be
used interactively, and all student facilities can be accessed by
smartcard.
The category 5e cabling system means that the equipment in each lecture
room or skills laboratory, typically including video cameras, image
digitisers, DVD and VHS players, PCs with CD-ROM drives and facilities for
plugging in laptops, can be used interactively and flexibly as and when
the situation requires. Students can, for example, watch imitation
operations being carried out or patients being interviewed by consultants.
Future expansion includes the possibility of streaming live data from
the hospital to nearby Keele University, over an existing optical fibre
link.
Source: bjhc&im May 2005
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