http://candidcio.com/2008/11/04/is-enterprise-class-wifi-an-oxmoron/ This is the Blog of Will Weider, CIO of Ministry Health Care and Affinity Health System. This is the place where I share what I have learned through my mistakes and other crazy things in the life of a healthcare CIO. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:51:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://candidcio.com/2008/11/04/is-enterprise-class-wifi-an-oxmoron/#comment-9454 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:57:48 +0000 http://candidcio.wordpress.com/?p=215#comment-9454 1-2-3, yep those apply here too.
COW’s, C5 tablets, Vocera badges, glucose meters, probably RFID soon too. You get an unruly situation when you mix the business demands, the expectations, the devices, the applications, the security concerns, the availability and the clinical work flow.
We have used auto-initiating Cisco VPN clients for wireless security and now are implementing WPA2 with digital certs. This looks real promising.
We are a Citrix shop so Citrix buffers wireless connectivity issues.
We are broadcasting ssids, that seems to help.
We are putting in additional wireless access points in a voice model and implementing LWAPP for management. This helps too.

]]> http://candidcio.com/2008/11/04/is-enterprise-class-wifi-an-oxmoron/#comment-9449 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:31:01 +0000 http://candidcio.wordpress.com/?p=215#comment-9449 It happens that I have experience on both fields that is, Hospital software and Wireless networks (long story), but the thing is, there’s a mismatch between the two, the way apps are made and this kind of networks. Wireless nets can’t provide a completely flawless mode because of its medium, and apps are build using the wired mentality, that is, the net works perfect all the time. So the solution is that apps should be build with “retrys in mind”, sort to speak, in fact, it’s a bit more complicated than that, but you get the idea. Is the same with load balancing, you can do it regardless of the app, but if the app it’s “conscious” of that, it going to perform a lot better.

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