We need a network architecture that supports high-performance distributed computing. Looking down the track, the merging of SynOptics’ switching expertise with Wellfleet’s high-speed routing capabilities will provide us with a truly first-class infrastructure that’s completely manageable from end-to-end.
Predictor: Beard, Nick
Prediction, in context:In 1994, Health Care International’s medical center in Glasgow, Scotland, became the first hospital in the world to use a fully electronic records system. In this article, Nick Beard, HCI’s technology chief, notes how important networked information is to hospitals of the future: ”With bandwidth-hungry applications such as teleradiology, we need a network architecture that supports high-performance distributed computing. Looking down the track, the merging of SynOptics’ switching expertise with Wellfleet’s high-speed routing capabilities will provide us with a truly first-class infrastructure that’s completely manageable from end-to-end.”
Biography:Nick Beard was a British physician with a degree in software engineering – he installed an advanced hospital-information system at HCI in Scotland and was a Personal Computing World magazine columnist in the1990s. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: September 12, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Pipeline/Switching/Hardware
Name of publication: Business Wire
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Quote Type: Direct quote
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