Philips IntelliVue Telemetry System Infrastructure Installation And Service Manual page 12

About This Guide
Terminology
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Please note the following terms, acronyms, and abbreviations used
throughout this document:
• IntelliVue Clinical Network (ICN) - This term refers to the entire Philips
network. In a routed topology, the ICN includes the routers and all
inter-connected Database Domain(s) and the IntelliVue Telemetry
System wireless subnet.
• Database Domain (DBS) - This term is used to describe the "network"
that contains the Standalone IntelliVue Information Center, or the
IntelliVue Database Server and its connected Information Centers,
Clients, bedsides, and infrastructure. This term applies to both routed
and non-routed topologies.
• IntelliVue Telemetry System (ITS) - Cellular wireless architecture that
provides two-way communications between patient-worn transceivers,
wireless bedside patient monitors, and the IntelliVue Information
Center.
• IntelliVue Wireless Subnet - This term is used to describe the IntelliVue
Telemetry System (ITS) "network" that contains the infrastructure
used in a routed topology to connect the IntelliVue Telemetry System
devices.
• Access Point (AP) - A network device that provides bi-directional
wireless access to the monitoring network for patient-worn
transceivers and wireless bedside monitors.
• Access Point Controller (APC) - A network device used to manage the
operation of the Access Points. One APC is elected the Master APC.
The Master APC supports the web interface to the system and
manages the master configuration.
• Access Point Group/AP Group - A logical grouping of APs. AP members
of the same AP Group will inherit common configuration settings
(defaults). AP groups will often map logically to the clinical units in
which the ITS is being installed.
• Partnered APC - Configurable element within an AP Group used to
determine which APC will manage the operation of the AP members of
a particular AP Group.
• RF Access Code - Configurable element in the Smart-hopping AP
defaults shared among APs and patient-worn transceivers to control
wireless access to the monitoring network. Portable devices will only
connect to access points with which they share access codes. The RF
Access Code allows a specific wireless client that is programmed with
a matching Access Point RF Access Code to connect to that Access
Point.