Conference 7.286::digital

4635.0. "Assistance with TeleMed '96 Demo in UK??" by BGSDEV::DINTINO () Mon Jun 03 1996 15:06

    
    Dr John Falconer is a field test site for our Multimedia products.
    He is looking for a contact in the UK that would be willing
    to help him to coordinate a Telemedical conference between 
    Austrailia and the UK for the TeleMed '96 conference in London.
    
    I posted this in the Videoconferencing notes file as well.
    
    Below is his latest message along with a clip from a former one
    containing the details of what is needed.
    
    Thanks for any information/assistance with this.
                                                              
    
From:	US2RMC::"[email protected]"  2-JUN-1996 20:50:21.25
To:	Light and Sound - Codecs <bgsdev::dintino>
CC:	[email protected]
Subj:	Re: Response from product marketing regarding sponsoring the  telemedicine demo  



Hi Karen,

Thanks for making the enquiry. I didn't expect any direct help from the people 
in the States since I know what DEC has become like. I was hoping for some 
suggestions as to the marketing people in the UK who I should contact to get 
their help. My local people are most supportive and will contribute but I don't 
want to have to cart an Alpha station around the world. Also it would be nice to 
have a technical contact in the UK who could help me coordinate this. I really 
don't need a financial contribution just a contribution in resources so I don't 
have to find everything when I arrive in the UK and realise I am short of a 
cable.

I was most interested in what you said about the ISDN in tha States. I am not 
particularly familiar with ISDN having worked with microwave until now. What 
standards were you using? When I asked the technical people here about ISDN 
support they said it had never been implemented (maybe not in Australia due to 
the need to satisfy the Austel regulations). I may have to see what I can do 
with the Turbo channel since I have one machine which I could use remotely 
rather than the new ones I am buying. What info do you have on the cards for the 
old machines? Anything you have would be a help as a starting point.

Thanks,

John

    
    (more details from earlier exchange)
    
    On a slightly different note I wonder if you know who would be the best
    person
    to approach in DEC re a trial I wish to put on later in the year. I am
    planning
    to take my application to the Telemed '96 meeting in London in November
    and
    wanted to put on both a talk about my application and a real-time
    demonstration
    connecting to my homesite in Australia. I need DEC support in the UK to
    provide
    an alpha as a recieving site for this and will also need to get either
    someone
    to pay for the ISDN link or a carrier to sponsor it. The title of my
    presentation will be "Real-time ultrasound diagnosis over a wide area
    network
    (WAN) using off the shelf componenets". The thrust of it is that it is
    possible
    to do this type of Telemedicine using standard DEC components without
    paying for
    expensive proprietary software.
    

Contacts for the UK:-

Alan Trevennor @GMT
Richard George @GMT

Dave.

ISDN?  Ha! ha!

ISDN = It Still Does Nothing!

I think you'll have better luck waiting for a cable-TV modem due out later
this year.


						-Paul

  Well, that may be true here in New England (NYNEX country), but
  I've heard good things about ISDN in other areas (PacBell?).

                                   Atlant

	NYNEX doesn't even know how to spell ISDN

	Cable Modems? From the same company that can't add Sci-Fi channel
	but can add 3 shopping channels? The same company that most
	everyone in Southern N.H. can't stand? Oh yea, I want to purchase
	TCP/IP service from them.

							mike

    re: ISDN from NYNEX
    
    My neighbor has ISDN (Westford MA) and he uses it extensively. 
    Coincidentally, he has his own telemedicine company, and is using ISDN
    for exactly the kind of things described in .0.  He said it was like
    pulling teeth to get it installed, but now that it's in, it apparently
    works quite well.
    
    	Steve

NYNEX who?  Check you recent phone bill.  NYNEX is being bought out by Bell 
Atlantic.

In some part of the country ISDN has been "lost" somewhere in the 
regulation/dereguation of the phone industry.  Hopefully the cable TV 
companies will suffer from less bureaucracy.

Cable modem also have much high bandwidth than ISDN, so the phone companies
plan to counter with Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line.  ASDL is fast for 
receive, but slow to tranmit.

At this point, I don't think it is certain which technology will take over 
for analog modems and plain old telephone service (POTS).


							-Paul