Medical robotics help surgeons conduct more accurate, less invasive operations. Telerobotics allow them to bring this technology to even the most remote locations. Using Bell Canada's highly reliable and secure Virtual Private Network Enterprise service powered by Cisco MPLS technology, a surgeon at St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton, Ontario performed the world's first hospital-to-hospital telerobotics assisted surgery over an IP network. To the outside observer, it may seem a simple matter of data transfer. But for the patient who got the operation she needed without having to travel away from home and family, it's still a modern medical miracle.
In California, Hotel Valencia Santana Row is using Cisco wireless networking technology to better serve an increasingly mobile clientele. After checking in at curbside, guests can use a laptop or PDA to wirelessly connect to the Internet from anywhere in the hotel or surrounding grounds. Internet-powered telephones allow them to check flight status, access news headlines, even confirm conference agendas. And, business professionals can link to their corporate networks over a highly secure virtual private network (VPN) connection without worrying that data might be compromised. It's high-tech hospitality. And it's happening now.
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