This has been a huge debate for the past twelve plus years.
After 2000 and when 802.11b came approved in 1999 and a proven design became available for www.draeger.com via Integra Systems in 2005..it just makes sense for medical telemetry over the WLAN. This is not to say that WMTS is not the best way to go; but a converged WLAN solution does make perhaps the best financial and technical approach.
Integra Systems, Inc., has been recently comissioned to conduct a forensic analysis of a Department of Defense wireless voice over IP network design as well as a WMTS Integrated Delivery Network design for medical based telemetry in the past twenty four months.
Both the installed provided WLAN design and WMTS design and deployment were flawed from the get go. As a result this had huge ripple effects in application performance and associated risk of the use model.
So what is important here? Fundamental is good RF design?
Integra Systems, Inc. will be soon publishing a white paper from www.ixiacom.com the global leader in network design tools.
This should shed some light on the best practices of what both the medical device company and provider market should look at to decrease the risk of deployment and CAPEX and OPEX costs.
