Network Design
4-10 Site Planning and Preparation
Printers HP LaserJet printers can be network connected to the network for shared printing
capability.
A summary of these design capabilities and limitations of Patient Care Network
components is given in Table 4-1.
Information
Center (Local
Database)
This section includes independent Information Center designs only, that is Information
Centers that are not connected to a IntelliVue Clinical Network.
Equipment
Capability
Requirements must be matched to the following Philips Patient Care Network equipment
capabilities.
• Information Center capability can:
– display data from up to 16 patient monitors
– annunciate 22 alarms
– store up to 150 alarm records
– store up to 96 hours of patient data for:
— waves
— ST segments
— trends
— events
•each System Communications Controller can manage data for up to 6 Information
Centers and from up to 24 patient monitors.
• Patient monitors for both systems can be hardwired or telemetry.
• Telemetry mainframes can support 8 channels of telemetry monitoring.
These design capabilities and limitations are summarized in Table 4-2, Philips Patient Care
Network Component Capabilities and Limitations.
Table 4-1. Release E.01 System Capabilities
Description of Limit
M3150 Local
Database
M3169 Small
Database
M3154 Central
Database
Maximum Number of Information Centers per system 1 3 8
Maximum Number of Clients per system 0 3 8
Maximum Number of Database Servers per system 0 1 10
Maximum Number of beds per Information Center 16 4 16
Maximum Number of monitored beds per system 16 48 128
Maximum Number of networked printers 2 4 8
Table 4-2. Philips Patient Care Network Component Capabilities and Limitations
Component Device Capabilities Limitations
Patient Monitors Hardwired monitor 1 per patient
Telemetry monitors 1 per patient
Telemetry Mainframe 8 monitors per Mainframe See Note below