Alaska Communications Utilizes Juniper Technology to Serve 100+ Healthcare Locations

0:01 providing health care services in Alaska

0:04 is a very challenging endeavor it is

0:06 two-thirds the size of the United States

0:08 it's a very harsh land with mountains

0:10 volcanoes rivers and large vast tundra

0:14 of untouched wilderness people live in

0:16 every nook and cranny so it's critical

0:19 to provide health care services in those

0:21 areas where those people are Alaska

0:23 Communications is a company with over

0:25 125 years of experience in Alaska and we

0:28 are now providing enhanced Metro

0:31 Ethernet services Carrier Ethernet

0:32 services MPLS advanced telecommunication

0:35 services to our customers on the

0:37 healthcare side of things we provide

0:39 services to about a hundred different

0:41 locations around the state and twenty

0:43 five-plus customers Alaska

0:46 Communications has worked with a genome

0:48 prefer a number of years before juniper

0:50 we had different equipment different

0:52 operating systems supporting our network

0:54 we'd have to find switch engineers we'd

0:56 have to find router engineers and then

0:59 also sometimes the equipment would not

1:02 support the same interface rates with

1:06 juniper we're not able to simplify that

1:08 that network by standardizing on the

1:11 Junos operating system which has enabled

1:13 us to provide expert training to our

1:16 staff and any of our staff can now work

1:18 on any aspect of our network making it

1:21 very interruptible and cross-platform

1:24 capable with other carriers in the state

1:27 and across the country we can then

1:29 provide a much richer better customer

1:32 experience providing them a very simple

1:35 handoff of technology that otherwise

1:38 would be very complicated with juniper

1:40 we're able to forget about the

1:42 technology and focus on the business

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