With the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems around the world needed to rapidly expand capacity to effectively treat a large number of critical care patients. With this possible exponential growth in the numbers of patients needing treatment, this healthcare provider embarked on a plan to convert standard patient wards in their hospitals to ICU-level (intensive care unit) emergency overflow wards. 

While many departments rely on bedside telemetry systems that can utilize Wi-Fi networks for connectivity, COVID-19 surge patient require full bedside monitors (and the respirator systems needed for treatment of COVID-19) that rely on wired network connections to meet the standard for ICU-level care. That link must provide assured connectivity into the critical patient bedside monitoring VLAN.