DNSBOX answers hospital VoIP call
With around 2,000 users at its main Hillingdon Hospital and 500 users at Mount Vernon Hospital, Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's network manager Tom Croft needed a solution for 3,000 client licences.
His existing Windows DHCP server was not capable of handling that licence volume without significant cost – and he needed a higher level of performance too.
Tom needed the new solution to be easy to manage, with little administration or maintenance required by his team. Continuity was also key – so if an outage happened, staff could still use their VoIP devices.
Following a consultation with ApplianSys, the Trust chose four DNSBOX210 units. These can handle thousands of DHCP requests – and can be configured as physical or virtual machines, which provided the best-fit for the Trust's rack-space requirements.
With built-in automation tools and custom VoIP configurations, deployment was quick and easy. ApplianSys engineers configured the units in high-availability pairs at each hospital, so if one unit ever went offline, it would automatically fail over to the next – meeting the requirement for vital continuity.
