Video South has installed comprehensive networks using two-way sound and vision designed for the demonstration of all clinical and surgical procedures to remote audiences.
The systems are planned to co-ordinate clinical areas, teaching areas, documentation/records and video conference rooms. Designs range from extensive systems connecting several locations within a hospital site, to systems utilising network connections to the outside world, to smaller PGMC and seminar room links connecting clinical areas within a hospital.
Video over IP
This hybrid network achieves a lossless quality within the hospital campus for teaching and demonstration of procedures without time delay, motion or resolution loss. No sensitivity to network speed. The gateways to LAN/WAN and public networks are at a quality defined for each application. These gateways can be changed and upgraded as such technology progresses, and multiple gateways to a variety of digital network technologies can be simultaneously supported. These could be MPEG2, MPEG4, H.320, H.323 or future standards of encoding.
All relevant technologies can be employed in a seamless yet modular network. All the following modules are interoperative. These include connections via:
Copper
- High quality analogue
- Broadcast quality video/audio
Fibre
- Broadcast quality video/audio
- Analogue and Digital
LAN/WAN
- All manifestations of IP networks
Public networks
- Using dial up videoconference circuits merged with our on-site networks