Vizada Enables Telemedicine At French Ministry Of Defense
The French Ministry of Defense has chosen Vizada to provide its mobile satellite communications over the next three years (2008-2010). Vizada provides Inmarsat, Iridium and Thuraya services for use on many different sites worldwide, including dedicated interconnection solutions to meet the MoD’s needs in terms of communications quality & security.
Vizada has put in place an Inmarsat BGAN-based solution for the French military health department (Service de Santé des Armées). BGAN terminals are deployed in remote bases worldwide, enabling military surgeons performing operations there to transmit images via videoconference to medical staff based on a different site or country. In this way, the surgeons benefit from advice and guidance in real time from specialists for particularly critical or complicated surgical operations.
Two simultaneous IP BGAN links are put in place to make this possible. A 256 kbps streaming connection to perform videoconferencing and relay images from the operating table to the medical staff in France. A background IP connection (up to 492 kbps) to send medical files, analysis reports, X-rays, photos and scans.
