A study of the patients' requirement for the telemedicine

APAN medical WG made the great success of involving the close-to-real medical activities over the high speed circuits. The reason of their success was that their activities were driven by the medical doctors. At the project Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) [1] in USA, both the doctors and the patients are involved in the telemedicine infrastructure implementation. For such reasons, it is important to survey what kind of services in the telemedicine the patients are requesting. One of the easiest ways to survey this issue is to look at the AppStore. The top charts are built by the AppStore staff with checking the number of downloads, the evaluation of the customers and some other items. This paper is trying to get the idea of the requirement of the patients for the telemedicine with checking the top charts of the AppStore of “medical”

Experience with Restoration of Asia Pacific Network Failures from Taiwan Earthquake

We explain how network failures were caused by a natural disaster, describe the restoration steps that were taken, and present lessons learned from the recovery. At 21:26 on December 26th (UTC+9), 2006, there was a serious undersea earthquake off the coast of Taiwan, which measured 7.1 on the Richter scale. This earthquake caused significant damage to submarine cable systems. The resulting fiber cable failures shut down communications in several countries in the Asia Pacific networks. In the first post-earthquake recovery step, BGP routers detoured traffic along redundant backup paths, which provided poor quality connection. Subsequently, operators engineered traffic to improve the quality of recovered communication. To avoid filling narrow-bandwidth links with detoured traffic, the operators had to change the BGP routing policy. Despite the routing-level first aid, a few institutions could not be directly connected to the R&E network community because they had only a single link to the network. For these single-link networks, the commodity link was temporarily used for connectivity. Then, cable connection configurations at the switches were changed to provide high bandwidth and next-generation Internet service. From the whole restoration procedure, we learned that redundant BGP routing information is useful for recovering connectivity but not for providing available bandwidth for the re-routed traffic load and that collaboration between operators is valuable in solving traffic engineering issues such as poor-quality re-routing and lost connections of single-link networks

Live surgery from Japan to South Africa: High-quality image transmission over a high-speed academic network

Quality preservation during the transmission ofmedical moving images is challenging owing to image compression in thelimited bandwidth of the Internet. Satellite transmission does notsolve this problem because of the high cost involved, hindering theadvancement of practical telemedicine. We developed anew, affordable and usable system, and applied it to the livetransmission of surgery from Japan to South Africa. The digital videotransport system (DVTS), which is free software that transforms digitalvideo signals directly to Internet Protocol, and academic networksdedicated to research and education purposes were used with bandwidthof 30 Mbps. The cipher program IPsec was used to protect patientprivacy. Laparoscopic rectal surgery was transmitted live from KyushuUniversity Hospital in Japan, to the University of Cape Town in SouthAfrica, as well as Cho Ray Hospital in Vietnam, over a period of 2hours. Interactive discussion was held among the three sites with thetransmission of clear, high-resolution, and smooth surgical images.This project is an important milestone achieved in South Africaindicating its feasibility for developing nations with NationalResearch and Education Networks and provides a base for its domesticand international expansion

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