Six Reasons to Use the IRHN
- The IRHN provides for 100Mbps upstream and downstream, up to 1 Gigabit. This meets the recommended standard of the National Broadband Plan for health care networks. Transmission times for large files reduced from hours to seconds.
- Traffic between locations on the IRHN is not exposed to the public Internet. It is a dedicated health care network.
- Traffic between locations on the IRHN is low cost for high speed: $750/month for 100Mbps (equivalent to 67 T1 circuits). $1200/month for 1 Gigabit/second.
- Traffic that needs to transmit over the public Internet is segmented for security at pricing ranging as low as $5/Megabit via the ISP. IRHN connects to multiple ISPs at the Starlight POP in Chicago and at other locations.
IRHN assists health care providers in being HIPAA compliant with guaranteed quality of service, point to point connectivity, network reliability, fiber optic scalability. Perfect for Health Information Exchange and HIT applications.
- Access to health institutions, education, and research facilities via Internet2.