This wide-area telecommunications network connects all VA facilities and supports a variety of VA medical, operational and administrative applications.
Network services are dynamic and can evolve as needed to meet customer requirements.
At this point, less than a dozen facilities remain without frame relay access and all will be connected soon. VHA locations are taking advantage of the higher bandwidth and have realized improvements in their business practices. Several VA Medical Centers have used frame relay speed and efficiency to migrate most, if not all, WAN requirements from the IDCU packet network. Additionally, they have included video conferencing, document and tele-radiology imaging and future consolidation of clinician services as frame relay service candidates. VAMC's in Buffalo, Batavia, Hot Springs and Ft.