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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
| Source: LGC Wireless
SAN JOSE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 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.