SpectraLink Deploys VoIP at USC Hospital

July 31, 2002 -- Workplace wireless telephone system supplier Spectralink Corporation (spectralink.com) announced on Tuesday that it has installed its NetLink wireless at the University of Southern California University Hospital.

The USC University Hostpital, says SpectraLink, has equipped its staff with more than 275 NetLink telephones, enabling them to make calls when they are in the facility in order to improve response time and the quality of care.

The NetLink wireless phones, says SpectraLink, are integrated with a Cisco CallManager IP telephony application tied into the hospital’s existing Nortel Meridian 1 PBX. Calls are relayed using an 802.11b wireless LAN through a series of Enterasys access points installed throughout the facility.

"We wanted to ensure that our staff is always accessible to their patients and other staff as soon as they were needed, no matter where they were in the hospital," says Jennifer Fagnani, marketing director for USC University Hospital. "NetLink Wireless Telephones give us the level of communications that we need to provide the best possible care that our patients insist upon and to combine our data and voice needs on one wireless network."