Telerobotics Assisted Surgery Runs over Bell Canada's MPLS VPN

On February 28, 2003, Dr. Mehran Anvari performed first hospital-to-hospital telerobotics assisted operation from St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario to a patient in North Bay, Ontario. Using a specially designed robot, Dr. Anvari assisted Dr. Craig McKinley, a North Bay-based surgeon, in performing a laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication (acid-reflux) surgery over a distance of approximately 250 miles. The two hospitals were connected via a VPN running over Bell Canada's MPLS backbone. The Bell Canada MPLS network uses Cisco Systems' routers.
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