When fully operational summer 2004, the new multiservice infrastructure will solve a plethora of business critical issues for Wellmont. Not the least of these is delivering a simplified, all IP-based network with enough bandwidth to easily transport the health care organization’s patient records, as well as dicom images created by the hospital system’s Agfa electronic medical imaging system. The new infrastructure will also add high-availability failover redundancy for disaster recovery between Wellmont’s three main facilities; Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) for end-to-end QoS; and the ability to deploy several bandwidth-intensive applications, including medical imaging, health information systems,VoIP, and an IP SAN that supports both Internet SCSI (iSCSI) and Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) over the new backbone. All of this will be carried over three pairs ofleased fiber optic circuits from Sprint, which initially balked when Wellmont inquired about renting its unused dark fiber capacity.