Case Study: South County Hospital Healthcare System achieves cost savings and a reliable, high‑performance network with Extreme Networks

Hospital in Southern Rhode Island Selects Extreme Networks Infrastructure for Cost Savings and Reliability

The South County Hospital Healthcare System, an independent non-profit acute-care hospital in southern Rhode Island, faced rapid network growth after hiring physician practices and onboarding many bio-medical devices, wireless carts and personal devices. With a single network administrator and a patchwork of legacy solutions, the hospital needed a cost-effective, reliable, secure and easy-to-manage wired and wireless infrastructure, and selected Extreme Networks (deploying ExtremeSwitching S- and C-Series, ExtremeWireless and Extreme Management Center) to standardize and simplify operations.

Extreme Networks implemented S-Series core and C-Series edge switches, ExtremeWireless and the Extreme Management Center to unify wired and wireless management. The deployment let one administrator manage a network that tripled in size (ports up over 300%), securely connect 48 employed physicians, provide guest Internet to ~3,000 visitors/month without impacting clinical traffic, and contribute to a #1 patient-satisfaction ranking in Rhode Island for four consecutive years — all while delivering significant cost savings, higher uptime and improved visibility and control.

South County Hospital Healthcare System

Ken Hedglen

Manager of Technology