Thousands of hospitals around the world are setting up temporary COVID-19 treatment and testing facilities. Each of these new facilities needs networking equipment to keep physicians and staff productive and informed, and to enable patients to communicate. But these organizations are struggling to get the equipment they need quickly, due to high demand and short supply.

Cisco has set up two programs to help healthcare organizations rapidly obtain networking equipment at no cost: The Cisco Pandemic Equipment Brokerage, and the Cisco Healthcare Rapid Response Network Bundle. Cisco is also supporting our healthcare customers with expertise: We have networking engineers on call to provide design and configuration support for technology practitioners as they work to keep their communities safe.

1. The Cisco Pandemic Equipment Brokerage

Through this program we are connecting our customers who can donate wireless equipment with healthcare organizations who need it.

We have talked with IT teams at several companies that have new equipment still not set up, or hardware left over from previous upgrades, who would like to contribute it to the pandemic response. If, like them, you