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Just a comment on costs > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: edifact and web strategies (renamed from MSE) SNIP > We aren't talking about the web as we know and love it. We are > talking about very fast information available to doctors very fast > when and where they want it. If you have a bunch of medical people > all accessing an internet connection whenever they want information > (and there is nothing more certain than a GPs whinge when he waits a > few seconds for something) then you are talking about big bandwidth > (at least 1 Mb/sec) available all day. No setup time would be > acceptable so an on-demand internet over ISDN wouldn't work. To my > mind, as an engineer, that is best provided by infinite bandwidth > infinitely cheap - and please note that I did say "or as near as > necessary". SUPERJanet operates at 4*34 Mbps between about 20 sites all over the UK; it then extends onto about a further 200 sites at speeds ususally in the 8 Mbps range. It is free at the point of use, and has a total annual running cost in the order of stlg20M. It is reliable, and a lot (like roughly 500,000) people use it every day. The annual budget for the sector it serves (Education & Research) is about stlg10,000M The annual budget for the NHS is in the order of stlg40,000M. Mike Wells ========================================================== Professor Mike Wells Department of Physics, The University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom Phone: 0113-233-3879 E-Mail [log in to unmask] ========================================================== %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%