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XYZ Regional Hospital is an integrated healthcare system comprising hospitals, neighborhood health centers, and small doctor offices. XYZ Regional Hospital recently merged with 4x neighborhood health centers and 125 doctor branch offices. Its wireless, wired-access, and AAA solutions are outdated and require replacement.

XYZ Regional Hospital wants to future-proof and improve efficiency across every site by enhancing wired and wireless access and moving to centralized, unified wired/wireless and policy management that provides uninterrupted availability of all systems.

Locations:

  • XYZ Regional Hospital is located in New York City.
  • Dila Health Center is located in City A.
  • Mount Health Center is located in City B.
  • Rock Health Center is located in City C.
  • Branch clinics are located at different locations across the United States.

Requirements:

  • Provide, through management software, a single pane of glass to manage wired and wireless LANs and VPNs across campus, branch, and remote sites through a web/cloud architecture that provides near real-time insight, troubleshooting tools, and Service Level performance reporting.
  • Seamless integration across wired, wireless, WAN, SD-Branch, and IoT.
  • Provide secure wireless access to all Regional Hospital employees and partners, and provide wireless Internet access to medical citizens when they visit the facilities.
  • All access points must support these features and specifications: 802.11 ax (Wi-Fi 6E Certified).
  • Security options including WP2/WPA3 and 802.1X with Radius secure authentication.
  • Identify and authenticate every wireless and wired device.
  • End-to-end role-based security.
  • Seamless mobility across the hospital for medical teams, patients, and visitors.
  • Cut Wi-Fi deployment times from days to hours and enable Zero-Touch deployments across the site.
  • Establish a resilient, future-ready network infrastructure with the intelligence, scalability, and intuitive toolsets needed to meet emerging needs.
  • A fully redundant branch solution with dynamic path selection to the hospital.

XYZ Regional Hospital is seeking an NAC solution to address its security challenges.

Requirements:

  • A fully redundant NAC solution for management and authentication.
  • Wireless and wired authentication for the main hospital will be handled locally.
  • Wireless and wired authentication for the health centers will be handled locally.
  • Wireless and wired authentication for the clinics will be authenticated against the main hospital NAC.
  • Staff users/devices must be able to visit any site and have the same experience.
  • Support 35k devices.

Locations:

  • XYZ Regional Hospital is located in City 1 - 15k devices.
  • Dila Health Center is located in City 2 - 8k devices.
  • Mount Health Center is located in City 3 - 5k devices.
  • Rock Health Center is located in City 4 - 4k devices.
  • 125 branch clinics are located at different locations across the US - 2k devices.

Which solution fulfills the customer's requirements?

  • A 1x 3010 as a Publisher for the main DC1x 3010 as a Standby Publisher for the DR2x 3010 as Subscribers for the Main Hospital2x C2020 as Subscribers for the Dila Health Center2x C2020 as Subscribers for the Mount Health Center2x C2020 as Subscribers for the Rock Health Center25k + 10k Access licenses
  • B 1x 3010 as a Publisher for the main DC1x C2020 as a Standby Publisher for the DR2x C2020 as Subscribers for the Main Hospital2x C1000 as Subscribers for the Dila Health Center2x C1000 as Subscribers for the Mount Health Center2x VMs as Subscribers for the Rock Health Center15k + 10k Access licenses
  • C 1x C3010 as a Publisher for the main DC1x C3010 as a Standby Publisher for the DR2x C3010 as Subscribers for the Main Hospital2x C1000 as Subscribers for the Dila Health Center2x VMs as Subscribers for the Mount Health Center2x VMs as Subscribers for the Rock Health Center35k Access licenses
  • D 1x 3010 as a Publisher for the main DC1x 3010 as a Standby Publisher for the DR2x 3010 as Subscribers for the Main Hospital2x C1000 as Subscribers for the Dila Health Center2x VMs as Subscribers for the Mount Health Center2x C2020 as Subscribers for the Rock Health Center15k + 10k Access licenses
Explanation

A redundant ClearPass deployment requires equivalent publisher capacity at the primary and disaster-recovery locations, paired local subscribers where local wired and wireless authentication is required, and sufficient Access licensing for all 35,000 devices. C3010 appliances provide the required scale for the 15,000-device main hospital, while redundant C2020 subscriber pairs provide adequate local capacity for the 8,000-, 5,000-, and 4,000-device health centers. The 25k plus 10k Access licenses total 35k.

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