A not-for-profit health care system headquartered in California with operations across several states in western United States. This organization comprises of than 85 distinct business units, including 20 hospitals with over 3,100 beds, 18,800 employees, numerous clinics and outpatient facilities, 16 home care agencies and three joint-venture retirement centers.
If their WAN went down for any significant time, it had the potential of costing lives as well as thousands of dollars. So they wanted a system that could provide them with greater control over their network infrastructure. The core requirements were identified to be: