title: Specifications for a satellite based wide area network.
abstract: To provide rural America with modern telemedicine requires very high bandwidth resources that may take decades to appear. Satellites provide the natural choice for communication between the rural primary care centers and the tertiary care hospital. However there are problems if TCP, as required for Internet access, is to be the protocol of choice.
authors.affiliation: Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department, 305 Engineering Building West, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. tyrerh@missouri.edu
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Tyrer
mesh_terms: D020407:Internet; D017215:Satellite Communications; D017216:Telemedicine