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Nortel Network Case Study: ProMedica Health System

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Overview ProMedica Health System, a not-for-profit healthcare organization of more than 209 healthcare facilities in Ohio and Michigan. The company wanted to regulate and secure traffic on the organization's fractional DS-3 Internet connection. Company deployed Nortel's Intelligent Application Traffic Management on their existing Nortel Application Switch, combined with a resilient, secure Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8300 for access aggregation.

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Publisher	Nortel Networks	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2004
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Ethernet, Switching, Application Development

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