Dräger Medical Certifies Trapeze Networks Products Interoperable
PLEASANTON, Calif., August 4, 2008 – Dräger Medical, an international
leader in the fields of medical and safety, has certified
interoperability between Dräger’s line of Infinity patient monitoring
equipment and Trapeze Networks’ line of NonStop Wireless networking.
In Dräger’s notice of certification, Lars Roth of Dräger’s Monitoring
Systems and IT group, wrote, “Due to the critical nature of medical
devices, Dräger Medical tests and verifies network hardware components
used for communication between medical system devices. These tests
include proper IP Multicast handling, wireless roaming, wireless
encryption and load testing. In addition, tests with competing traffic
are run in order to understand and detect the proper Quality of Service
settings. These are the key parameters that will ensure that in a
shared Infinity OneNet installation, the data flow of the Dräger
patient monitors is being prioritized over non-patient monitor data.”
“People kick around the words ‘mission-critical’ until the expression
is meaningless,” said Ahmet Tuncay, executive vice president of product
management and business development at Trapeze Networks. “For Dräger,
mission-critical means monitoring patients in the ER, ICU, OR, and
everywhere in between. Dräger has pioneered mobile patient monitoring
and is turning to the leader in NonStop Wireless, Trapeze Networks, for
wireless infrastructure. --That’s mission critical.”
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