by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Mar 19, 2012 | 802.11 WLAN Requirements
Over the past several years the lines of demarcation have become blurred in terms of the wired and wireless network. What this simply means in my opinion is a L2/L3 switch is a switch, a controller is a controller and an AP is an AP. I came up through the earlier...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Mar 15, 2012 | 802.11 WLAN Requirements
Integra Systems, Inc. has acquired WaveDeploy Expert…the ultimate WLAN site assessment and readiness tool. See the attached capabilities. It should be standard best of practice for any WLAN enabled medical device deployment. Download...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Feb 1, 2012 | 802.11 WLAN Requirements, Distributed Antenna Systems
I heard about this again today…not again. OK, like anything else if you throw enough $$ at something, custom re-engineer something for what it was not intended, make it proprietary as all get out, and create barriers to the evolution for new wireless LAN...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Feb 1, 2012 | 802.11 WLAN Requirements
It is still alarming to me to hear that certain entities are promoting that a “type of network is termed “medical grade utility”, or that a network needs some sort of certain regulatory approval. This is not true in my opinion, in fact it could be...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Dec 29, 2011 | 802.11 WLAN Requirements, 802.11n, Bi-Directional Amplifiers, Bluetooth, Citrix, Distributed Antenna Systems, EMI, EMR, Femtocell, IEC 800001-1:2010, Machine to Machine Medical Connectivity
It has been a very interesting year and good in the wireless and healthcare connectivity space. A brief re-cap of activities. 1. Developed test plans and protocols as well as conducted testing for a major medical device company (6B). Addressed questions from the FDA...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jun 1, 2011 | 3G and 4G, 802.11 WLAN Requirements, Medical Devices
Collectively in the industry it has been often understood that the term medical device connectivity, simply means a connected medical device. The question remains what is the real definition of medical device connectivity? We are now faced with not only networked...