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Orlando Regional Healthcare Selects LGC’s
Multi-Carrier Indoor Cellular Coverage Solution
New InterReach Fusion® Product Delivers Multi-Carrier Cellular
Coverage in New, 11-Story Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies
SAN JOSE, CA, April 18, 2007—LGC Wireless, the leader in
advanced in-building wireless systems, today announced that Orlando
Regional Healthcare (ORH) has selected its InterReach Fusion® in-building
cellular coverage system to provide strong and reliable cellular
service inside its new, 11-story Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies,
the 8-story Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, and in adjacent
emergency rooms and operating suites.
One of Florida’s most comprehensive medical systems, Orlando
Regional offers a wide-range of sophisticated healthcare services
to 1.6 million Central Florida residents. ORH added to its Orlando
facilities with construction of the Winnie Palmer Hospital in 2004-2006,
but the building’s energy-efficient reflective glass prevented
cellular signals from penetrating inside. Based on a successful
experience with a small LGC Wireless system covering one floor
in Orlando Regional Medical Center three years ago, ORH chose LGC’s
new InterReach Fusion system to provide multi-carrier coverage
throughout the Winnie Palmer Hospital and Arnold Palmer Hospital
facilities. Currently, the hospital contracts for cellular service
with Sprint Nextel and AT&T.
“We had great results with LGC equipment in our earlier
deployment, and we were confident that LGC could once again solve
our coverage issues,” said Ron Carroll, telecommunications
manager at ORH. “They came through with flying colors.”
Although Cingular had provided a small LGC system in 2004 to improve
cellular reception on one floor of its adjacent Orlando Regional
Medical Center, the ORH staff decided to purchase the new LGC InterReach
Fusion system outright. Unlike previous systems, the InterReach
Fusion solution delivers multi-frequency, multi-carrier support
through a single set of electronics. This design reduces acquisition,
deployment, and management costs.
“Hospitals like the ones at Orlando Regional Healthcare
are difficult environments for cellular coverage because they contain
a relatively large number of small rooms and the cellular system
must not interfere with wireless signals from medical telemetry
equipment,” said John Spindler, vice president of marketing
at LGC Wireless. “Like our other products, the Fusion system
produces consistently high signals from each remote antenna, reducing
the chance of cellular phones interfering with other equipment.
We are proud to have made a top regional hospital one of our first
customers for the multi-carrier InterReach Fusion product.”
About LGC Wireless
With more than 10,000 deployments worldwide, LGC Wireless is the
leader in extending scalable, high-performance wireless coverage
and capacity inside buildings and public facilities. LGC’s
products offer low-cost installation, end-to-end monitoring and
management, and easy integration of emerging wireless technologies.
LGC Wireless is based in San Jose, California USA and is privately
held. For more information, please visit www.lgcwireless.com.
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