University New Mexico Hospital

MA4000 proves its strength in supporting move to new location

Founded in 1889, The University of New Mexico, with a student body numbering more than 26,000, occupies 600 acres and more than 200 buildings along old Route 66 in the heart of Albuquerque. The campus is home to The University of New Mexico Hospital which underwent a major expansion with the opening of the Barbara and Bill Richardson Pavilion in 2007.

NEC installed UNM’s first MA4000 beta version in 2005. In so doing, it brought secure, centralized, browser-based management to UNM’s telecom infrastructure. Reynolds says, “We no longer had to pay engineers to look up data for moves, adds and changes so it started saving us money right away.”

Little did Reynolds know then that the MA4000’s ability to lower TCO would be dramatically demonstrated two years later, during one weekend in June 2007. That was when staff and patients moved into the Barbara and Bill Richardson Pavilion, a 476,555 square-foot expansion containing the entire UNM Children’s Hospital and an expanded emergency care unit.