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1st appeared 22 September 1999 New Computer Networks and Phones Being Installed Beginning Oct. 1, a new computer network will be installed at UCSF Medical Center and its Ambulatory Care Center (ACC), UCSF/Mount Zion and several clinical facilities. The new network infrastructure will replace the existing outdated network that is not Y2K compliant and will meet the communication needs of the new clinical systems. All desktop computers, servers, printers and terminals will be converted to the new system in a phased approach. This project is expected to be complete by the end of the year. Users on the new system will be upgraded to 10/100 Ethernet and assigned new IP addresses. As users are converted, network responsibility will transfer from UCSF/Enterprise Network Services to UCSF Stanford Health Care Information Technology. The Mission Center Building portion of this system has been in operation for over six months and a handful of PCs at the Parnassus site have been connected to the new network for testing purposes. In total, about a dozen buildings are involved in the conversion, including the Moffitt-Long hospital, the ACC, Laurel Heights (the Call Center, Telecommunications, and Design and Construction) and the 5th floor of Millberry Union. Call Julie Cox, vice president of Information Technology customer service, at 415/353-4532 for information about the conversion schedule, service levels and technical requirements associated with this project. At the same time, a new phone system -- which will save about $2 million a year in phone costs and long-distance rates -- is being installed at UCSF Medical Center and the ACC. However, unlike the data network project, the phone conversion only impacts UCSF Stanford Health Care customers at Moffitt-Long and the ACC. UCSF customers will remain on the UCSF Centrex system and continue to use the Octel voicemail system. Phones with the prefix 476, 502 and 514 will be converted to the UCSF Stanford 353 prefix. The old phone numbers will be forwarded for several months. Published main numbers for clinical departments can be forwarded until the year 2001. Phones will be converted to a new Siemens phonemail system. At the ACC, about 900 new phones and more than 1,000 phone lines, including faxes and modems, will be installed. At the hospital, about 1,700 new phones and 1,850 lines will be installed. The new system should be fully installed by February. For information about the phone conversion schedule, voicemail interoperability and customer training, please contact Rosario Sabadlab at 415/353-4580. For information regarding the organization's long-term telecommunications plan, please contact David Sproul, director of telecommunications, at 415/353-4595. Links: UCSF Information Technology Services Source: Laurie Itow, UCSF Stanford Health Care |
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