Motorola RFS6000 - Wireless RF Switch User manual

Motorola WLAN in Healthcare:
Seamless mobility for advanced patient care

Patient care
without wires
In the mission-critical environment of healthcare,
delivering the very best in patient care requires
doctors, nurses and other caregivers to be
accessible and instantly able to reach colleagues as
well as access a wealth of data. With a Motorola
wireless LAN solution, you can put ‘right here right
now’ mobile access to voice and data in the pockets
of your healthcare team, providing the tools they
need at the point of care to define a new level of
healthcare excellence.
At the heart of every Motorola mobility solution is
a Motorola wireless LAN, optimized to meet the
stringent demands of the healthcare environment —
a main communication artery that you can count on
to reliably and securely carry voice and data to and
from every employee, in every inch of your facility.
And whether you need rugged enterprise-class PDA-
style mobile computers for nurses and other staff;
single and dual-mode Voice-over-WLAN phones; bar
code scanners for managing inventory and other data
capture requirements; or RFID and other tracking
technologies to automatically track patients, medical
equipment and staff, our end-to-end mobility product
portfolio delivers.
Now, your staff can enjoy the seamless access
to people and information required to make the
best decisions — no matter where they are in the
hospital. The result? Extraordinary productivity, giving
clinicians, nurses and other staff the information they
need to deliver extraordinary patient care.

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What can your healthcare
facility do with a Motorola
wireless LAN?
Healthcare facilities around the world utilize
Motorola’s advanced wireless networks to
deliver complete solutions for vital data,
voice and other applications, including:
Point-of-care applications: With mobile
applications running over a wireless network,
caregivers can verify medication, access patient
records, order tests, collect specimens and
more — right from the patient’s bedside.
Voice communications: Single and Dual-
mode Voice-over-WLAN phones and badges
and Wi-Fi enabled nurse call systems
allow nurses and physicians to easily
communicate, roam throughout the facility,
and respond to patient needs instantly.
Real-time patient, staff and asset tracking:
The ability to wirelessly track any patient,
staff or asset increases overall efficiency.
Easily locate a specialist to perform an
emergency procedure, a patient who is late
for a test, a wheelchair or a specialized piece
of equipment for an upcoming operation.
Patient and equipment monitoring:
WLAN-enabled medical equipment allows
nurses and other staff to monitor a patient’s
condition and the status of sensitive
equipment, such as an IV pump, all in real time
— wherever they may be in the hospital.
Secure guest access: The same wireless LAN
that provides mobile voice and data access to
healthcare staff can be utilized to provide guest
access to the Internet without impacting critical
operations or jeopardizing the privacy of your
data, ensuring HIPAA compliance while providing
a valuable service for visiting family and friends.
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The truly healthcare-ready and
healthcare-proven wireless LAN
Just as your patients come to you for the best in
healthcare, many of the world’s largest healthcare
providers come to Motorola for truly best in class
mobility solutions. And every minute of every day,
Motorola delivers. With Motorola, you get the peace
of mind that comes from choosing a leading provider
who really understands the meaning of ‘mission
critical’ — we offer many decades of experience
providing critical mobile communications solutions
for healthcare facilities as well as Fortune 500
companies and public institutions around the world.
Our easy-to-use wireless LAN technology is
designed to meet the needs of healthcare staff,
allowing your caregivers to remain focused on
the life-saving tasks at hand. As the inventor
of first and second generation wireless LANs,
Motorola knows mobility — our breadth of
experience and patented features provide the truly
resilient, secure and high-performance wireless
connection required in healthcare facilities.

What can you expect from a Motorola wireless LAN?
Toll-quality voice. Advanced support for VoWLAN
provides voice-aware wireless services throughout
the facility, enabling push-to-talk and more for
employees inside the four walls as well as in outside
areas. The comprehensive QoS feature set provides
granular control over the many wireless networking
functions required to deliver high performance
persistent clear connections with toll-quality voice.
WMM Admission Control, including support for SIP
and TSPEC, ensures dedicated bandwidth for voice
calls as well as better control over active voice calls.
Layer 3 hyper-fast secure roaming combines with
readiness for external fixed-mobile convergence
(FMC) solutions, enabling seamless voice services
with true mobility across the enterprise. And
the addition of Motorola’s VoWLAN-ready Total
Enterprise Access Mobility (TEAM) business
smartphones enables the easy extension of PBX
features as well as advanced voice functionality.
Gap-free security. At Motorola, we understand that
protecting the sensitive data and the performance
of your wireless solution is critical — which is why
we reach beyond the requirements of HIPAA to
offer built-in, uncompromising security. Support
for all of today’s latest security mechanisms
enables the deployment of robust layered security
that protects the integrity of patient records, test
results, medication prescriptions and more. 802.1x
authentication ensures that only authorized users
gain access to your network. WPA2 offers the
strongest encryption available — AES. And just as
your patients count on you every second of the
day, our leading AirDefense Wireless Intrusion
Protection System (IPS) proactively monitors your
WLAN, mobile devices and traffic every second
of the day, to protect network performance and
availability, and enable the instant identification
and neutralization of a wide range of threats.
Resilient RF. Downtime is not an option for your
healthcare staff. You need to know that the wireless
LAN offers the same reliability as your wired network
and your desk phone. With a Motorola wireless
solution, you enjoy wireless that simply works.
Self-healing mesh, redundant cluster support and
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Superior performance. Our wireless LAN products
are loaded with features that deliver voice and
data with a difference. Enterprise class Quality
of Service (QoS), pre-emptive roaming, load
balancing, and seamless Layer 3 mobility combine
to provide physicians, nurses and others with a
resilient connection as they roam throughout the
facility — from the patient’s bedside, in the halls,
at the nurses station, to the pharmacy and more
— ensuring continuity of service for phone calls and
data applications. Support for 802.11n enables the
most bandwidth-intensive applications, including
video for medical imaging, ensuring support for the
applications you need today — and tomorrow. Virtual
AP enables broadcast domain separation for secure
hotspot enablement for patients and visitors. And
Wi-Fi Multimedia Extensions (WMM-PowerSave)
with Admission Control improves mobile device
battery life and battery capacity for your Motorola
mobile devices, ensuring ample power for a full shift.

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Adaptive AP technology — all Motorola innovations
for the Wireless LAN — work together to seamlessly
re-route traffic around any malfunctioning equipment
in your network. In the event that an access port
should fail, our SMART RF Management feature
automatically adjusts the power and channels of
neighboring access ports to eliminate any gaps in
coverage, providing next generation self-healing
— no monitoring required. And with Motorola’s
unique Adaptive AP, our Remote Site Survivability
(RSS) mesh access points will continue to deliver
secure uninterrupted wireless service, even in the
event of a network outage on your wired network.
The result is unparalleled wireless resiliency.
Built-in applications – voice, security and location.
When you choose a Motorola wireless switch, you
get superior support for advanced applications — a
host of integrated capabilities ready to go right out of
the box, from toll-quality voice to real-time location
tracking and security. With support for Voice over
WLAN (VoWLAN), healthcare providers can put cost-
effective mobile voice in the hands of physicians,
nurses and more. Rich and flexible support for a
broad array of real-time location services — including
built-in 802.11 asset tracking, Passive RFID and
industry-leading third party real time location system
(RTLS) solutions — enables automatic tracking of
staff, patients and equipment. And built-in support
for WPA2-CCMP, Stateful Firewall, integrated
RADIUS server, IPSec VPN gateway, secure guest
access provisioning and more, eliminates the need
to purchase and manage additional equipment.
Network scalability. Motorola’s comprehensive
wireless LAN portfolio can meet your networking
needs, regardless of how small or large your
facility’s reach is today — from a long-term care
facility to a large hospital campus or a multi-
facility network that includes hospitals, clinics
and other offices distributed across town, across
the country or around the world. Our wireless
networks easily grow as your organization expands
— Adaptive AP enables the easy addition of
remote sites that can be centrally managed, yet
also stand alone in the event of a WAN outage.
RF lifecycle management. At Motorola, we know
from decades of industry experience that a poorly
planned or difficult-to-manage wireless solution
can erode the benefits of the very mobility it
provides. That’s why we’ve invested in creating a
powerful set of integrated management tools that
provides granular end-to-end control across the
full lifespan of your healthcare mobility solution
— from planning and deployment through day-to-day
management of the wireless LAN infrastructure,
your mobile devices and your mobile applications.
Outstanding value. When you invest in a Motorola
WLAN, you enjoy wireless voice and data for a
fraction of the cost to deploy and maintain a wired
network. Our full-featured Wireless Next Generation
operating system, known as Wi-NG, offers built-
in support for virtually every feature possible in a
wireless LAN, from rich location services, broadband
backhaul and Adaptive AP technology to support
for RFID, mesh and other RF technologies — right
out of the box. Budget-friendly shared licensing
eases the cost burden of redundancy support, and
centralized remote management simplifies and
reduces the cost of managing your network.

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One company with everything
you need to go wireless
Why choose Motorola to empower your healthcare workers
with mobility? Because we cover everything wireless — from
hardware and applications to the industry expertise required
to plan and deploy mobility solutions designed for a maximum
return on investment. When you choose Motorola, you have
the assurance that comes with choosing a partner that truly
knows wireless inside and out. The inventor of the wireless
switch, we also hold over 100 key wireless LAN patents that
enable unique Motorola-only features that work together to
provide ‘wired’ performance levels on the wireless LAN.
Motorola’s unmatched mobility portfolio and world-class
partnerships enable us to offer true end-to-end healthcare
solutions that offer the simplicity of a single accountable source.
In addition to WLAN, our comprehensive product offering
includes everything you need to get and keep your mobility
solution running at peak performance every day of the year:
Rugged and enterprise class integrated voice and data
mobile computers with extensive advanced data capture
capabilities and wireless communications options
Wide area and local area wireless network infrastructure to
wirelessly connect remote facilities and mobile workers
Fixed, handheld and mobile RFID readers; bar code
scanners; and business-class smartphones
Software products for central and remote management
of every aspect of your mobility solution
A complete range of pre-and post-deployment services
And finally, Motorola’s world-class ecosystem of
partners is there to ensure that your mobility solution
fits seamlessly with your existing technology.
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Award winning wireless
LAN technology...
...from an award
winning company.
2008 Interop Best of
Show Finalist
Motorola RFS6000
2008 Best of FOSE
Motorola RFS7000
2008 ABI Green Award
Motorola
Motorola Enterprise
WLAN Portfolio

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Wireless Switches
Motorola Wireless Switches deliver on the promise of the wireless enterprise, providing the performance, security, resiliency,
scalability and manageability required to deliver cost-effective centralized wireless voice and data in any size facility — from long-term
care and physician office environments to the largest Integrated Delivery Systems.
RFS7000: Designed for large buildings and campuses, the RFS7000 offers a comprehensive feature set based on
Motorola’s Wireless Next Generation (Wi-NG) platform. The RFS7000 supports 8,000 to 96,000 mobile devices/users,
and up to 256 802.11a/b/g access ports or Adaptive 802.11 a/b/g and a/b/g/n access points.
RFS6000: Designed for mid-sized facilities, the RFS6000 offers a multicore multithreaded architecture with all of the
advanced features of Motorola’s Wi-NG platform. The RFS6000 supports 2,000 to 20,000 mobile devices and up to 48
dual radio 802.11a/b/g access ports or Adaptive 802.11 a/b/g and 802.11 a/b/g/n access points.
WS2000: Designed for outpatient clinics and physician offices, the WS2000 is a powerful all-in-one wired and wireless
switch and router that simplifies and reduces the costs of managing wired and wireless networks. Ideal for smaller
locations, each WS2000 offers support for up to 6 802.11a/b/g access ports and mesh capabilities.
Access Ports and Points
Motorola Access Ports and Access Points offer flexible deployment options, whether you are deploying a single cell site, a mesh
network or a large installation.
AP300: A key component in Motorola’s Wireless Switch systems, the AP300 dual radio 802.11a/b/g access port
provides the point of connection between your mobile devices and the wireless LAN. A thin, low cost zero-configuration
device, the AP300 is centrally managed from the Motorola Wireless Switch, and does not require manual maintenance.
The AP300 can also function as a dedicated sensor to provide 24x7 wireless security.
AP-7131: An industry first, the AP-7131 802.11a/b/g/n Access Point offers the throughput, coverage and resiliency
required to enable the truly wireless healthcare facility. The AP-7131’s tri-radio design can enable always-on wireless
intrusion protection as well as mesh networking. As an Adaptive AP, the AP-7131 can be centrally managed by a switch
or act independently.
AP-5131 and AP-5181: The AP-5131 provides enterprise-class wireless networking for standalone locations, and mesh
networking for cost-effective extension of the network in difficult-to-cable areas. As an Adaptive AP, the AP-5131 can
be centrally managed by a switch or act independently. The related AP-5181 provides similar functionality for rugged,
outdoor environments.
Management Software
Motorola offers a full suite of software products to design, deploy, troubleshoot and secure your wireless network, making it easy
for your staff to manage the full lifecycle of your wireless LAN. These products are available as an integrated suite, or can work
individually to improve your wireless performance regardless of your choice of WLAN vendor.
LANPlanner: Wireless LAN network success begins with the network design. LANPlanner enables the easy and remote
creation of a well-designed network that can deliver maximum performance from the moment the system is powered on
— eliminating the high cost associated with an iterative trial-and-error approach and multiple site surveys.
RF Management System: This fully featured management solution provides the comprehensive centralized tools
you need to automate planning, deployment, security and day-to-day management of your wireless LAN. And tight
integration with other Motorola management solutions enables the creation of a powerful single point of control for your
entire mobility solution — including the wireless LAN, your wireless broadband infrastructure and all your mobile devices
(via Motorola’s Mobility Services Platform/MSP).
AirDefense Wireless IPS: This comprehensive around-the-clock Wireless LAN security and performance monitoring
solution provides healthcare facilities with the ability to detect and terminate rogue devices, continually identify and
correct network weaknesses, ensure compliance with network policies and view forensics data for richer analysis of
security anomalies. The result is the next-generation proactive protection you need to not only comply with government
regulations, but also ensure continual network performance and availability.
Wireless Bridges
The Motorola Wireless Broadband Portfolio helps customers to design, deploy and manage wireless networks over large areas to
share data, voice and video across a geographically dispersed multi-facility healthcare organization.
Point-to-point and point-to-multipoint solutions: Whether you have a sister hospital across town or a series of
clinics throughout the city, Motorola wireless Ethernet bridges and powerful software tools can provide a cost-effective
connection (up to 155 miles), eliminating the need for — and the recurring cost of — leased lines. Seamlessly sharing
information across the entire healthcare organization enables better collaboration for better patient care as well as
streamlined administrative management.
Additional products: Motorola also offers a wide variety of associated WLAN products, from Power-over-Ethernet injectors
to wireless bridges and client adapters for medical devices.
Motorola’s comprehensive wireless LAN portfolio

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