Case Study: Catholic Health System achieves resilient, secure, and cost-efficient data center networking with Juniper Networks

Powered by a Next-Generation Datacenter, Catholic Health Delivers High-Quality, Efficient Healthcare

Catholic Health System, a $1 billion nonprofit provider serving Western New York with paperless hospitals and a network of clinics and community services, faced a life‑critical IT challenge: its aging data center network could not reliably support high‑performance Siemens EMR and medical imaging systems. With flat budgets and rising application demands, the organization needed a simplified, scalable, affordable network that increased capacity and reliability while easing management.

Catholic Health deployed Juniper’s MetaFabric architecture—EX8208 core and EX4200 top‑of‑rack switches in Virtual Chassis, SA Series SSL VPN appliances, IDP intrusion prevention, and Junos Space Network Director—to flatten and secure the data center. The upgrade delivered greater network capacity and resiliency for life‑critical apps, simplified operations and lower costs, secure remote access for clinicians, and seamless sharing of patient records without disrupting care.

Catholic Health System

Pete Capelli

Vice President of IT and CISO