Case Study: The National Institutes of Health achieves uninterrupted, building-wide wireless communications with Black Box Network Services

Enpowering researchers and caregivers with enhanced wireless

The National Institutes of Health’s Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center — a 242-bed, 870,000‑square‑foot research hospital — needed reliable wireless coverage so researchers and caregivers could use government-issued smartphones and other interpersonal devices throughout the facility. To overcome signal-blocking concrete, glass and other building materials and enable uninterrupted voice, data and email communications, The National Institutes of Health engaged Black Box Network Services to deploy a distributed antenna system (DAS).

Black Box Network Services installed a unified, managed DAS that delivers wireless signals across the entire CRC, supporting immediate BlackBerry deployments and future smartphone, paging, patient‑monitoring and two‑way radio applications. The BBNS solution provided full-coverage wireless service across the 870,000‑square‑foot center, improved interpersonal communication and patient/public safety, eliminated the need for multiple discrete systems, and created a cost‑effective, future‑ready wireless infrastructure.

The National Institutes of Health