Designing a datacommunications network to support decentral computer facilities within the Eurotransplant...

For Eurotransplant the main aspects in processing the data are time, quality and volumes. The present trends appear to hand us the right opportunity to reconsider the existing information system. New scientific developments, renewal of the software, a fast growth of quantities and an increasing demand for decentralization have created the pre-condition for a project, in which a main task is fulfilled by a data-communications system. Here a dynamic new field is entered in a decade of growing user-awareness and interest. Public Telecommunication Companies and manufacturers, although having just established the first agreements in numerous standardization committees, are now being pushed to speed up. Eurotransplant, however, needs a professional system now which takes care of network management, data security, availability and so on. Specifications for a network are investigated and a pilot study is undertaken to show that international data communication is possible.