Healthcare

Every facet of technology has and continues to change and advance at lightning speed, except for two — the decades old fiber optic installation methods that actually support those advanced technologies and antiquated connectivity solutions.

That is…until now.  Sumitomo has solved the limitations of traditional fiber optic cabling and connectivity to bring the most advanced solutions for the zero downtime and patient safety requirements of the mission critical wired and wireless hospital-healthcare network with:

     • FutureFLEX® Air-blown Fiber® — an environmentally green,
        complete end-to-end, splice-free optical fiber and pathway
        solution that provides not only unprecedented benefits for the
        LAN, but for physically separated networks for security, DAS,
        and other systems, as well.  FutureFLEX delivers true bandwidth
        on demand, eliminates the need to enter or disrupt hard to reach,
        secure, and highly sterile & sanitized areas of the network for an
        infectious disease controlled, patient safe, and environmentally
        clean mission critical optical fiber network, plus much more.

     • Lynx2 CustomFit® Splice-On Connectors — for customized,
        on-site exact cable builds and terminations facilitating faster
        installations & MACs, faster repairs & restoration, and better
        performance for less downtime…without the shorts & slack
        and logistic delays of preterminated cables.

Why Kaiser Permanente, Sharp Healthcare, Penn State
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Central DuPage Hospital,
NIH (National Institutes of Health), Various VA Hospitals,
Mayo Clinic, and Many Others Have Chosen FutureFLEX?

Traditional cabling systems are disruptive to the physical healthcare facility and its daily operations by requiring large installation crews who must lift ceiling tiles, re-enter conduit, and often re-access sterile and sanitized areas to install or pull fiber optic cable, make bandwidth upgrades, or complete any network moves, adds, or changes — increasing the risk of airborne pathogens.  This old cabling technology is not only costly and archaic, but poses unnecessary infectious disease and patient safety risks.  With FutureFLEX Air-Blown Fiber, those days are over.

In addition to ensuring patient and staff safety, today’s hospital and healthcare facilities are being hard pressed to upgrade their networks to keep pace with data-intensive advances in medical technology. FutureFLEX® can handle the entire spectrum of hospital networking needs, from the LAN data backbone to distributed telephony and CCTV, imaging and radiology, fire and safety systems, and distributed antenna systems in 70 to 90% less time and labor costs than traditional cabling.

Unlike traditional optical fiber structured cabling systems, FutureFLEX: 

      • Blows at speeds of up to 150 ft. per minute the exact type and
         count of fiber required whenever and wherever needed in MINUTES
         versus the days or weeks associated with a traditional cable pull for
         Real-Time Bandwidth on Demand for Immediate Scalability 

      • Provides virtually unlimited pathway, fiber, and bandwidth capacity

      • Eliminates the need for often unused, wasted, and potentially soon
         to be obsolete dark fiber

      • Eliminates the need for often unused, wasted, and potentially soon
         to be obsolete dark fiber

      • Provides quick and easy real-time fiber installations, upgrades,
         expansions and MACs, even in hard to reach and highly sterile areas

      • Requires no construction work and  re-entrance into conduit, ceiling
         tiles, floors etc. for fiber installations, upgrades, expansions,  MACs
         or reconfigurations  — eliminating the infectious disease  risks from
         mold spores and airborne pathogens, as well as unnecessary
         downtime, and potential fiber damage

      • Eliminates the need for HEPA filtration systems, NAPEs
         (Negative Air Pressure Enclosures), patient moves, and other safety
         measures and their associated costs

      • Provides a clean optical fiber system that complies with ICRA
         (Infectious Control Risk Assessment)  and Joint Commission
         standards to create a patient safe and infectious disease
         controlled network

      • Delivers 38 reusable fiber pathways in a 4 inch conduit versus
         3 non-reusable associated with traditional cables