Title :
The Longwood Medical Area Network
Author_Institution :
Brigham & Women´´s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1992., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0720-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1992.271738
