Title :
Territoriality and the dynamics of building a multi-institutional wide area network
Author :
Wall, Peter J. ; Harrison, Richard C. ; Fleischer, Carl M.
Abstract :
The authors present a case history of the planning of a fiber optic based Ethernet that interconnects four hospitals, the Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston´s Longwood Medical Area. The network is designed to support terminal access, electronic mail, text file transfer, and image transfer among these institutions. The history shows the political and technical evolution of the Medical Area networking capability
Keywords :
computer networks; medical administrative data processing; optical fibres; optical links; Boston; Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health; Longwood Medical Area; electronic mail; fiber optic based Ethernet; hospitals; image transfer; planning; terminal access; text file transfer; wide area network; Biomedical imaging; Cancer; Ethernet networks; History; Hospitals; Magnetic resonance imaging; Optical fiber cables; Optical fibers; Project management; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1989. ICC '89, BOSTONICC/89. Conference record. 'World Prosperity Through Communications', IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1989.49710
