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April 11, 2005 San Antonio, TX -- SBC Communications has entered into a data services contract with the MetroHealth System, an academic medical center and Level I trauma center in the Cleveland area, operating 13 inpatient and outpatient facilities, including a comprehensive outpatient surgery center, as well as 10 community health sites.
Under the terms of the five-year contract, in order to provide the center with high-speed fiber-optic networking capabilities, the carrier will deploy its PremierSERV Optical Networking platform, including its Optical Ethernet Metropolitan Area Network (OPT-E-MAN) and Gigabit Ethernet Metropolitan Area Network (GigaMAN) services.
According to a press release, the services will provide the center with reliable transmission of bandwidth-intensive files and data, while reducing network delays or bottlenecks to satellite locations and to its new data center, which is due later this year to be relocated two miles from the center's main campus. As the application environment grows, the services will also help to support the center's Picture Archiving Computer System (PACS) for medical imaging, while also providing IP telephony capabilities.
"We were looking for a highly-reliable, high-bandwidth solution that would also enable us to take advantage of more complex applications," explains Vince Miller, vice president and CIO of the MetroHealth System. "Based on SBC companies' reputation in supporting optical solutions, we are confident they have the capabilities that will meet both our current and future needs."
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