The computer network system is the core of a smart hospital,and the requirements for network architecture in the construction of large-scale smart hospitals are becoming increasingly high.Traditional network architectures with users moving with the network generally suffer from problems such as low installation efficiency,slow policy deployment speed,and easy confu-sion of asset accounts.When faced with complex network requirements in hospitals,they also face challenges such as poor net-work scalability and cumbersome management.Selecting appropriate network virtualization technology and building a new,high-speed,and reliable network architecture play a crucial role in promoting the development of large-scale smart hospitals.Starting from 2023,a large tertiary hospital in Guangzhou has built a new branch network project based on software-defined networking,showcasing the advantages of this architecture in terms of deployment speed,policy configuration,and endpoint management.Ex-perimental data ultimately shows that using a software-defined networking architecture can significantly improve the efficiency of policy deployment in hospital networks.