Interoperability with Philips IntelliVue Smart-hopping Network

[derobbacher]

Hi Cisco WLAN Guys,

this big hospital here is investing into Philips WLAN Patient Monitoring stuff and would like to use proprietary

Philips WLAN APs and Philips WLCs, while we have installed already centrally into CISCO WLAN all over the Campus.

It is as always, some departments give a dam to central standards and invest in whatever is available on the marketplace.

A nice sales guy actually presented the Philips IntelliVue Smart-hopping Network on 2.4GHz and praised a mechanism

called "Smart-hopping" which reminds me to good old 802.11 FHSS used in the Startup times of WLAN in 1997.

Now my question to You:

Will this Philips Intellivue WLAN have an impact on already running Cisco WLAN in the 2.4GHz-bands in Germany ?

The WLCs are configured with 802.11b/g and 802.11g support and with disabled speeds from 1 to 11 Mbps by the way.

Thank You for any Tipps

Wini

[RosesTin]

Looking at the documentation;

https://www.philips.co.uk/healthcare/product/HC865346/intellivue-smart-hopping-network-wireless-network/documentation

It suggests that the Intellivue network operates in the WMTS band (~1.4Ghz region) not ISM, so shouldn't have an effect on your 2.4Ghz WLAN.

[Leo Laohoo]

Good find (rated).
The entire document places strong emphasis of "our WiFi won't interfere with your WiFi".