Medical Grade DAS (Distributed Antenna System)

Not again..well yes.. a ten year old marketing term. Several folks out there on LinkedIn are hearing this term being tossed around, i,e “Medical Grade DAS” – Distributed Antenna System. Funny how www.cisco.com has used this term for several years to describe their “network design”. What the heck does this really mean? Has the network design actually received a FDA 510k approval? What I find amusing and ironic is someone just yesterday made a comment on LinkedIn. “First a medical grade DAS was marketed as “passive”, now it is marketed as “active”, what a hypocrisy” He is right in so many ways. Actually I have seen these so called “passive” designs actually had “active high powered remote units” tucked away in closets to power them! So what a client was sold as a passive design (as more quote “safe”), actually was a hybrid/passive/active..in fact that actually what any DAS is. Suggest that any CIO of any healthcare entity that installs what is now again marketed as a “medical grade DAS”, put into contract that the integrator and/or supplier of the technology assume “all” legal liability if a “medical device” is a part of this “distributed antenna system design”.