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"The reliability and performance of Time Warner Telecom's metro Ethernetsolution at our existing 10 sites in Portland motivated us to extend ournetwork to our West Portland facilities," said Lee McMillian, CIO for TheOregon Clinic in Portland. "When Time Warner Telecom built fiber to that partof town, we were very pleased to add these two clinics to our metro networkand upgrade the level of service we provide our patients. Each 500 Mbps metroEthernet circuits allow us to deliver patient data to physician screens withinseconds."
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"This capability raises our level of care to what is normally associatedwith large, infrastructure-intensive hospitals," said McMillian."Additionally, it opened the door to completing a business continuity disasterrecovery (BCDR) project that will reduce our recovery time by 98 percent, fromhours to minutes."
With the addition of the West Hills Gastroenterology and West SideSurgical facilities, all 12 of The Oregon Clinic's locations are seamlesslyconnected to one another through Time Warner Telecom's Portland area network.Transmission speeds vary up to 1 Gbps per location. Together, these locationssupport the clinic's ability to provide more than 120,000 patient appointmentsannually. Furthermore, The Oregon Clinic's metro Ethernet solutioneconomically provides substantial bandwidth to meet the firm's goal oftransmitting electronic medical record (EMR) data as well as patient examimages to physicians on the network as quickly as possible.
The network extension further provides The Oregon Clinic the ability todeploy a real-time, data backup disaster recovery solution. The DR solutionwill leverage their enterprise disk arrays to back up The Oregon Clinic's17 terabytes of patient and enterprise data to the firm's data center facilityacross a Time Warner Telecom 500 Mbps metro Ethernet link. "The Time WarnerTelecom, high-capacity circuits will reduce our recovery time from hours tominutes," said McMillian.
"The demand for cost-effective, reliable and secure data circuits fromhealth care facilities and other businesses is driving our program to expandour fiber network to new areas of Portland," said Jon Nicholson, VicePresident and General Manager for Time Warner Telecom in Portland. "Our metroEthernet service easily scales to from 1Gbps and higher to handle ourcustomers' most bandwidth-intensive data transport needs. Together, ournational network, 75 metropolitan networks across the country and thousands ofbuildings on our network, companies can easily share large data files in townor across the country."
Time Warner Telecom is changing its name to tw telecom on July 1, 2008.
About Time Warner Telecom
Time Warner Telecom Inc., headquartered in Littleton, Colo., providesmanaged network services, specializing in Ethernet and transport datanetworking, Internet access, local and long distance voice, VoIP and security,to enterprise organizations and communications services companies throughoutthe U.S. As a leading provider of integrated and converged network solutions,Time Warner Telecom delivers customers overall economic value, quality,service, and improved business productivity. Time Warner Telecom will changeits name to tw telecom on July 1, 2008. Please visit http://www.twtelecom.comfor more information.
