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Medical Imaging and IPv6


Medical imaging vendors provide digital Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) to hospitals and clinics, which enables them to archive and distribute medical images and diagnostic reports  across the enterprise.  PACS integrates with Radiology Information Systems (RIS) to create an integrated RIS/PACS environment that streamlines radiology department workflow and improves radiologist efficiency by integrating images from mulitple sources with clinical patient data.  This solution provides radiologists with a full clinical solution and access to complete information for each patient.

Top 10 Reasons for migrating to IPv6

1. No more IPv4 addresses

When IPv4 was designed in the late 1970s with a 32 bit address field, there were over 4.3 billion addresses allocated and the thought was that this number would be sufficient for a very long time.  But this was before the Internet and mobile phones, which has consumed all the available IPv4 addresses.  As of February 2011, the last available blocks of IPv4 addresses were distributed to the regional IP address authorities around the world and these blocks will be allocated to ISPs during the remainder of 2011.  By the end of 2011, there will be no more IPv4 addresses available anywhere.  

US Government and DoD IPv6 Mandate

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has identified IPv6 as a critical technology necessary to achieve many of the Administration’s aggressive IT modernization goals such as Cloud Computing, National Broadband Deployment, and SmartGrid. In addition, with the depletion of the remaining IPv4 address spaces in under a year; the transition to IPv6 has also become a continuity of operations issues that must be met to ensure continued use and expansion of the Internet for commercial and government services.  

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