Medical Grade Network..Optical Prediction.

I have heard this term (medical grade) tossed around for almost a decade….but what does this actually mean? Yes…can it be applied across the industry as a standard best practice? The bottom line it is about the bandwidth requirements needed by the I-Pads, Androids, and I-Phones that will require a new design for wireless. When you talk about wireless…it is not just WLAN, but 3G/4G/LTE…all working together So will it be a converged coaxial, fiber, ethernet design…? Maybe in the interim, until the industry gets there. Ethernet even Giga does not have the capacity, and copper coaxial cable is high cost. Consumerism has hit the enterprise. Just like xDSL gave way to cable, it has given way to fiber optic to the home. Look to a potential all future fiber design (as the backhaul and infrastructure) perhaps with where the WLAN/LTE intersection is converged. In regards to the convergance of an I-Pad, smart phone on the best design with a WLAN enabled medical device…this can be done today with the right network design to include security polcies and quality of service. It is not rocket science..just applying best of industry practice. However, the industry does need some common guidelines in this respect.