Case Study: Wireless Ethernet: Mid-Valley IPA Expanding with Ease
The Challenge Mid-Valley Independent Physicians Association provides the wise allocation of medical resources to a growing base of over 41,000 members and 530 medical specialists! When it was clear that an expansion was necessary to keep up with the growing demand, MVIPA faced a connectivity dilemma. The hefty sum of medical documentation involved, needed to be transferred quickly and securely between MVIPA headquarters and the new office space 337ft across the street. Additionally, the new office space was scheduled for operation and needed to be ready for use at the end of the month. The facilities previous connection (5Mbps Cisco Aironet), was simply lacking the desired bandwidth/reliability and a new solution was needed, fast!
The Options Facing a narrow connectivity timeline, MVIPA had several options to choose from. Trenching fiber across a busy downtown street could set them back $100,000 or more and take many months to complete (if the city would even allow it). Furthermore, trenching could potentially produce complications such as business down-time. An alternative would be the expensive recurring monthly payments associated with a local service provider; but even then MVIPA would be adding only a minute amount of capacity for their investment. The third option would be to use a point-to-point wireless bridge to access the new expansion.
A Cost-Effective Solution MVIPA selected ezWireless to design and implement a wireless bridge that would allow the two offices to achieve the capacity it needed at 99.999% availability. To accomplish this, the Bridgewave FE60U (GigE upgradeable) 100mb link was chosen because of its ez installation, security and cost-effective nature. The link was entirely up and running within two weeks and all for under $20,000. The license-free radios required no digging, no permits and no recurring fees. And as for reliability? The products and services ezWireless implement have a MTBF of 28 years and have gone through Rigorous HALT/HASS testing. The Mid-Valley IPA continues to be a truly innovative medical advocate to the community!
connectivity dilemma. The hefty sum of medical documentation involved, needed to be transferred quickly and securely between MVIPA headquarters and the new office space 337ft across the street. Additionally, the new office space was scheduled for operation and needed to be ready for use at the end of the month. The facilities previous connection (5Mbps Cisco Aironet), was simply lacking the desired bandwidth/reliability and a new solution was needed, fast! 
security and cost-effective nature. The link was entirely up and running within two weeks and all for under $20,000. The license-free radios required no digging, no permits and no recurring fees. And as for reliability? The products and services ezWireless implement have a MTBF of 28 years and have gone through Rigorous HALT/HASS testing. The Mid-Valley IPA continues to be a truly innovative medical advocate to the community!
