Dr. Kevin Montgomery getting ready for the ground test

Three lead EKG, heart rate, Blood pressure, and arterial oxygen saturation were transmitted simultaneously to both hospitals from the aircraft via the Internet. The primary ground station in California linked the secondary health care facility in Argentina to the system mimicking a distributed medical network for remote consultation and diagnosis. A total of twenty simulated scenarios were successfully transmitted simultaneously to both health care facilities. All data was received without any corruption with an average delay time of 15 sec. between recipient stations.

George Migliarini, Director of Telemedicine and Internet Consultant at the Saddle Back Memorial in Laguna Hills, California was in charge of receiving the data real time. The hardware used at that end consited of a single Pentium chip computer and an Internet connection via an ISDN telephone line.

Dr. Rodolfo Altrudi, Chief of Surgery and Director of Telemedicine at the Santojanni Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina was responsible to collect the data, real time, at that end. The hardware used in Buenos Aires, consited of a 486 chip computer linked to the Internet over a 28,800 bps modem.

Little did it matter the bandwidth at the recipients end as "the bottle neck" of the link was at the cellular phone on the aircraft transmitting at 4,800 bps.