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THE OLD WAY vs THE NEW WAY

Section head: Two ways to connect a healthcare operation. Only one survives a dead zone.

Intro line: The old way builds infrastructure and hopes. The New Enterprise bonds every path you can get — two or more 5G carriers, Starlink, any existing circuit — into a single encrypted SpeedFusion tunnel with hot failover. Here’s the honest comparison.

	The Old Way	The New Way (bonded)
Time to connect a new site	60–120 days waiting on a carrier build	Day one — connectivity the day you arrive
Upfront cost (rural clinic)	$5,000–$50,000 construction	~$2,500 hardware — you own it
Monthly cost	$500–$1,500 for one wired path	~$300–$450 for 2–4 bonded paths
Vehicles (ambulance, coach)	One SIM, one carrier’s coverage map	2–10 bonded connections per vehicle
When a carrier blips mid-session	Video visit drops (~$200+ lost), ECG transmission fails, upload restarts	Session keeps flowing on the other paths — zero drop
A 1–3 GB tomosynthesis study	Sneakernet drives; reads delayed 24–48h	Uploaded from the parking lot, same day
Encryption in transit	Depends on each app	256-bit AES SpeedFusion tunnel around everything
Need more bandwidth	Another construction project	Add a SIM. Bond another path. 5G ×2 → ×8, +Starlink
Single point of failure	Always (the trench, the tower)	None — that’s the point

Pull quote (teal rule): Downtime at a 4-provider clinic runs $1,800–$4,000 per hour in lost visits. A second bonded carrier costs about $75 a month. This is not a hard decision — it’s an unexamined one.

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SOLUTIONS — Three kits, built for how healthcare actually moves

Every kit below is one-time hardware you own, plus SpeedFusion bonding service. No venue premiums, no construction, no carrier lock-in. All managed fleet-wide from one InControl dashboard.

Kit 1 — Ambulance Kit

Who it’s for: EMS fleets that need 12-lead ECGs, ePCR, CAD/AVL, and med-control video working on every mile of every route.

Core products: – Peplink MAX Transit 5G — per vehicle – SIM Injector — at the depot – SpeedFusion bonding service

Specs: – 5G modem with multi-carrier SIM slots — bond 2+ carriers per rig – SpeedFusion hot failover + WAN smoothing: ECG and video sessions survive carrier handoffs with zero drop – 256-bit AES encrypted tunnel from rig to hospital/cloud hub — supports HIPAA transmission-security requirements – eMark/E-mark vehicle certification class hardware, 12/24V, roof-mount combo antenna (cellular + GPS + Wi-Fi) – Depot-based SIM management: SIM Injector serves SIMs over the network — change carriers fleet-wide without touching a rig – Cloud management via InControl: GPS tracking, usage, config push, firmware for the whole fleet

Roughly the cost of one cardiac monitor battery program per year — ~$1,000–$2,500 one-time per rig, then ~$75–$100/month for a second SIM + bonding. Across 40,000 annual responses, that’s under $1 per response.

Kit 2 — Imaging Coach Kit

Who it’s for: Mobile mammography, MRI, and CT programs that need multi-gigabyte DICOM studies off the coach and in front of a radiologist the same day.

Core products: – Peplink MAX HD2 or MAX Transit Pro – SpeedFusion bonding service – Optional: Starlink flat-mount as a third/fourth bonded WAN for deep-rural stops

Specs: – Dual cellular modems — bond 2–4 carriers simultaneously, plus Starlink and host-site wireline when available – Bonded upload throughput sized for 40–100+ GB screening days; a 1–3 GB tomo study moves in minutes, not overnight – 256-bit AES encrypted tunnel — no dependence on host-site guest Wi-Fi or host IT approvals – External MIMO antennas for parking-lot RF reality (metal coach, far corner of the lot) – Hot failover mid-upload: a carrier fade doesn’t restart a 2 GB transfer – InControl cloud management across the whole coach fleet

~$3,000–$5,000 one-time per coach plus SIMs and bonding service. One protected host-site contract or one avoided day of 48-hour read delays covers it.

Kit 3 — Mobile Clinic / Telehealth Kit

Who it’s for: Mobile clinics, pop-up sites, and rural fixed clinics that need EHR, e-prescribing, eligibility checks, and video visits that cannot drop mid-consult.

Core products: – Peplink MAX BR1 Pro 5G or MAX Transit Duo – SpeedFusion bonding service

Specs: – 5G with dual-SIM (BR1 Pro 5G) or dual-modem (Transit Duo) — 2 bonded carriers standard, expandable – WAN smoothing for video: packet-level duplication across paths keeps telehealth consults alive through carrier hiccups – 256-bit AES encrypted tunnel for EHR, EPCS e-prescribing, and eligibility traffic – Works as primary WAN on day one, or as bonded backup beside an existing wired circuit – Built-in Wi-Fi 6 for exam-room devices; VLAN separation for patient vs. clinical traffic – InControl cloud management — one dashboard for every site and van

~$1,000–$2,000 one-time per site. Compare: a single avoided outage-hour ($1,800–$4,000) or a $5k–$50k trench you never dig.

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CASE STUDIES TEASER

Section head: This isn’t theory. It’s Tuesday.

The same bonding engine that keeps golf majors, F1, and SailGP on the air — and lets ocean vessels bond 4–20 Starlinks — runs in ambulances and imaging coaches today. Two representative deployments:

Card 1 — County EMS, 40 ambulances. Single-SIM LTE was failing ECG transmissions in known dead zones. MAX Transit 5G + dual carriers + SpeedFusion + depot SIM Injector: 99.9%+ session uptime, zero failed ECG transmissions in six months, under $1 added cost per response. → Read the case study

Card 2 — Mobile mammography program, 6 coaches. 24–48h sneakernet reads became same-day uploads from the parking lot — 60+ GB days over bonded multi-carrier + Starlink. Callback turnaround dropped from 3 days to same-day. → Read the case study

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LEARN — Healthcare Connectivity 101 (free 5-part series)

Section head: The “101” is the point. Learn it before you buy anything.

Five short videos (3–4 minutes each), written for healthcare IT and program leaders — not network engineers. No registration required for parts 1–4.

1. Why the old way is broken — single-carrier economics, wired-build math, and what a dropped connection actually costs in care.
2. Bonding, explained for healthcare IT — what SpeedFusion actually does: hot failover, WAN smoothing, and why sessions don’t drop.
3. Designing vehicle kits — ambulance vs. imaging coach: modems, antennas, power, and how many carriers to bond.
4. PHI, encryption & fleet management — 256-bit AES tunnels, HIPAA transmission security (the honest version), SIM Injector, InControl.
5. Design your deployment — a worksheet-driven walkthrough that ends with your kit list and budget.

Start with Part 1 → /learn

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LEAD FORM

Get a deployment design for your fleet or clinic — free, in 48 hours.

Supporting line: Tell us what you run — rigs, coaches, vans, or clinics — and a West Networks engineer will send back a bonded-connectivity design with exact hardware, carrier mix, and monthly cost. No obligation, no reseller runaround.

Fields: – Name – Work email – Organization* – Role (dropdown: EMS/Fleet, Imaging Program, Clinic IT, Telehealth, Other) – What are we connecting? (dropdown: Ambulances, Imaging coaches, Mobile clinics, Fixed clinics, Telehealth program, Mixed fleet) – How many vehicles/sites? (number) – Anything else we should know? (textarea, optional)

Privacy line: We use this only to build and send your design. No PHI here, please — this form isn’t for patient information. We never sell contact data. See our privacy policy.

Button label: Send me my deployment design

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FAQ (exactly 6 — place above lead form)

1. We already have LTE routers in our vehicles. Why change? You don’t have to change — you have to add. One SIM means one carrier’s coverage map, and every route has holes in it. Bonding adds a second (or third) carrier and merges them into one tunnel with hot failover, so a fade on Carrier A never drops the session. Most fleets keep their current SIMs.

2. Is cellular HIPAA-compliant for PHI? HIPAA requires encryption of ePHI in transit; it doesn’t prescribe a transport. SpeedFusion wraps all traffic in a 256-bit AES encrypted tunnel over any mix of paths, which supports the transmission-security requirement. Honest caveat: technology supports compliance — your covered entity’s program (risk analysis, BAAs, policies) delivers it.

3. What does bonding cost versus a single SIM? Typically ~$65–100/month more per vehicle (second SIM + SpeedFusion service). One saved telehealth visit is $200+. One avoided clinic outage-hour is $1,800–$4,000. Across an EMS fleet, it’s under $1 per response.

4. How fast can we deploy? Hours per vehicle, days per fleet. There is no construction, no carrier build, no 60–120 day lead time. A rural clinic quoted $5k–$50k and four months for fiber can be live on bonded 5G the week hardware arrives.

5. What if we outgrow the bandwidth? Bond more paths. Start with 5G ×2; scale to ×4 or ×8, add Starlink, add any wired circuit that shows up later. Bandwidth scales like Lego — you add bricks, you don’t rebuild the wall.

6. Who manages all these routers and SIMs? One InControl cloud dashboard covers the entire fleet: config, firmware, usage, GPS. The SIM Injector keeps SIMs at the depot and serves them over the network, so a fleet-wide carrier change never means opening 40 vehicles. West Networks can co-manage or fully manage it for you.

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