wing DFN members to communicate amongst themselves and with outside organizations. Organizations connected by ISDN rather than dedicated IP required a gateway, which DFN addressed with RADVISION's viaIP multi-service platform. The additions enable DFN to manage IP telephony and multimedia communications intelligently on one network. The ECS allows network managers to set policies and control network resources such as bandwidth allocation. With viaIP, DFN members can conference with up to 400 participants on a single videoconference. It also provided a growth path to ensure the viability of its network into the foreseeable future while enabling interoperation with existing infrastructure. MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA: HEALTHCARE AND EDUCATION OVER DISTANCE Even the best of physicians occasionally needs a second opinion. When appropriate help is in another town, the solution used to be to fax X-rays and attempt to describe the circumstances of the case over the telephone. Videoconferencing provides a better alternative for the Medical College of Georgia (MCG). Dr. Jay Sanders took a leading role in one of the country's first Telemedicine applications, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Subsequently, as Director of Telemedicine for MCG, Dr. Sanders provided the vision to build, "a system that electronically transports a consulting physician from a medical center complex to a patient at a distant health care facility." The MCG's system integrates interactive video communications with remote controlled biomedical telemetry to allow a consulting physician to examine a patient at a satellite location as if the patient were in the physician's office. The lack of access to specialty care is often a disadvantage of living in an isolated community. Rural hospitals require a minimum number of full beds to support doctors, nurses, technicians, and administrators. Therefore, every patient counts in the hospital's struggle to survive; each time it must move a patient to an urban hospital for specialty treatment, the bed