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The Network Revolution Needed For Remote Surgery (thestack.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the from-the-comfort-of-your-own-home dept.

An anonymous reader writes: IEEE researchers are proposing new standards for haptic codecs over software-defined 5G networks in order to achieve the ambitious 1ms latency and reliability required for the 'tactile internet'. It's a trivial consideration when hugging chickens over a network, more serious for applications of telesurgery, and a proposed leap in network quality that seems likely to yield benefits for general data streams as well.

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  1. Do Not Want by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 2, Insightful

    >> more serious for applications of telesurgery

    Do not want. If I'm under the knife, I'd like a doctor present in the room, not some dude with a "medical degree" dialing in from the other side of the world while moonlighting from his IT helpdesk job.