Implemented PACS

[tonyktone]

Hi all,

We're in the process of implementing a PACS system, which transmit heavy digital images.
I know it will put a strain on our network, the PACS system is located in a different facility than the client. What's the best practice for heavy images (burst of 600MB images)
Should I put it in a separate VLAN, and segment the traffic.
Or create separate bandwidth on our current 100MB line.

Please advise,

Tony

 

[lerdalt]

We have a PACs system installed here. The vendor requested it to be on it's own subnet, and ended up creating a separate subnet just for PACs and all of our Radiology equipment. However, we have not made any changes on the LAN to accomodate it.

We do have some images being transferred across the WAN, and I've applied QoS to the links to protect the other applications and putting all the image transfers in Best Effort.

I'd put some QoS policies on the current line just to protect the other applications, but you are going to want to get an idea of what sort of expectation the end user has for the transfer times of the images. I have a spreadsheet that I was sent and then tweaked to try and help set expectations. If interested, we'll have to figure out a way I can get it to you.