Case Study
National leader in mammography services accelerates access to life-critical scans
Since its inception three decades ago, Solis Mam- mography has been focused on one thing: provid- ing women with expert imaging services to achieve and maintain optimal health. Central to this are the 2D and 3D mammograms imaged during each visit. These images are large—each 500 MB or more—and stored in a central Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). For every patient visit, five years of historical scans are sent from the PACS to local imaging centers where radiologists can compare them with newly scanned images to identify any abnormalities. Combined with hun- dreds of thousands of annual scans, Solis pushes more than a petabyte of data across its wide area network each year. Solis Mammography transmits a petabyte of data annually with assured high performance