a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is an integral part of the smooth, timely delivery and quality of medical care in all medical settings today. They are not only solid, but they are of crucial importance for the clinical and business aspects of radiology practice as we know it. However, PACS have long faces challenges in the provision of digital imaging for diagnostic procedures such as X-ray, ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging [MRI], positron emission tomography (PET), and Teleradiology. The most important question is always the availability of sufficient bandwidth (load and speed )..... ..... at a reasonable cost to support the growing demand for fast, easy Web access by medical providers. medical imagery becomes more and more digitized .... with bandwidth improvements, the communication is quicker and easier, and it is possible to study harder in a shorter time and with high quality.

An internal (facility owned) PACS uses a common infrastructure for all digital imaging modalities and image storage and archiving with recall .... .... as needed for an entire medical facility or campus. By introducing a Web-distribution system provides a facility PACS is able to image the ready direct access to the radiology department and the entire spectrum of physicians and specialists, especially surgeons and doctors relate. To ensure functionality at the high level of resources needed for the heavy bandwidth appetite of the modalities.

Even an Application Service Provider (ASP) businesses, in applications, managed and leased them to access images from a centrally managed system is not immune to bandwidth concerns. ASP providers allow an institution to outsource application infrastructure, computer science, management, support and maintenance. For the purposes of the ASP Industry Consortium, ASP service is designed to "deliver and manage applications and IT services from remote data centers to multiple users over the Internet or a private network." Therein lies they challenge .... high bandwidth requirement, which is often a difference subtantial on an on-demand basis.

PACS vendors have numerous solutions to the bandwidth problem. You have compressed the pictures, supports standard network interfaces and protocols such as Ethernet and TCP / IP, and use of local area networks (LANs) with high bandwidth to hospitals or doctors that are in an environment. But how they deal with bandwidth, if institutions are supported by dozens or hundreds of miles, especially since the pictures are bigger and more complicated?

Some PACS vendors rely on the communication infrastructure in an area that deal with the bandwidth provided by the local telephone company and the price of a hospital is willing to pay, said Friedrich Wagner, director of PACS for Toshiba. Other vendors provide PACS streaming technology that transports high-quality images in real time over a bandwidth, including telephone and enterprise-wide LANs.

Another contribution is a technology called pixel-on-Demand Real-Time Media. This technology accelerates the processing of images from archives or PACS storage, without pre-data streams directly from selected regions of interest, and provides the important visual characteristics of an image on the viewer first.

The underlying solution to the bandwidth problem goes beyond even system technologies, network interfaces, image compression, and infrastructure protocols. It is with the provision of appropriate bandwidth (circuits ).... at a reasonable cost .... on the use of fiber-optic infrastructure in the United States. Enabling direct fiber optic connections internally, or between hospitals and remote data centers, is the cost-effective use of bandwidth. The use of Optical Carrier (SONET ring) bandwidth (probably OC3 or OC48) or Gigabit Ethernet allows a medical facility to optimize, it's Local Area Network (LAN). As organizations scale their ASP Application Service Provider (ASP) service for small imaging centers and large, far-flung health care.

To create a fiber optic infrastructure provider, the right solution for your range of medical imaging application ..... I recommend that you take advantage of free advice from an independent broker such as bandwidth DS3 Bandwidth.com.

Michael is the owner of the Firestone Freedom Communications .... including Business-VoIP Solution.com. Michael also authors Broadband Nation where you are always welcome to fall and learn about the latest broadband news, tips, insights and walks for the masses.