Give 'em a million dollars, plus fiber from here to anywhere and let me muck with the TCP algorithm, and I can move a GigE worth of traffic too I'm going to launch a couple DAT tapes across the parking lot with a spud gun and see if I can achieve 923 Mb/s! What kind of production environment needs a single TCP stream of data at 1Gbits/s over a 150ms latency link? High speeds are not important. High speeds at a *reasonable* cost are important. What you are describing is a high speed at an *unreasonable* cost. When a reporter from the New York Times asked Everest pioneer George Mallory why he wanted to scale the imposing peak, Mallory's answer was simple: "Because it is there."

Radiation oncology for each patient visit (e.g. a mammogram, 2 views, 2 breasts, 4Kx4Kx16bits / picture) between 100 and 500MBytes of data are collected Costs savings: e.g. in storage space, and labor to keep it organized, automated digital library can scale to larger numbers of patients Better patient care: ability to share images in real-time with distributed experts, provide ability to mine information for better clues on treatments