DocumentCode
1629475
Title
The Longwood Medical Area Network
Author
Glaser, John P.
Author_Institution
Brigham & Women´´s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
fYear
1992
Firstpage
422
Abstract
The Longwood Medical Area Network (LMAnet) is a high speed fiber optic network that connects several patient care, research and educational organizations in Boston´s Longwood medical area. The author describes the architecture of the network, current and potential future uses of the network, network costs and administration and management issues associated with the use of LMAnet. LMAnet is connected to the Harvard University campus network. This network provides a gateway NERNet, a subnet of Internet
Keywords
health care; local area networks; medical computing; optical links; Harvard University campus network; Internet; LAN; LMAnet; Longwood Medical Area Network; NERNet; administration; fiber optic network; gateway; management; network architecture; network costs; Cancer; Costs; Executive Committee; Hardware; Hospitals; IP networks; Optical fiber networks; Protocols; Spine; Transceivers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1992., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN
0-7803-0720-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICSMC.1992.271738
Filename
271738
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