Sussex HIS CASE STUDY The Challenge The Sussex Health Informatics Service (HIS) commenced a significant overhaul of its IT infrastructure, working towards centralization of IT services for all its customer organizations. This requires a unified approach to networking, security and application delivery to ultimately increase the level of patient care across Sussex. Part of this forward-thinking ethos is a Community of Interest Network (COIN) that provides a Gigabit-speed WAN, linking core node sites to over 270 National Health Service (NHS) sites in Sussex. The COIN is being leveraged to provide common network services, including a single global Microsoft Active Directory repository. It also will serve as the backbone to eventually deliver IP Telephony services for all the NHS site

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