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How Edge Computing Makes Remote Surgery Possible
In this episode of The Edge Computing Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how edge computing is enabling real-time remote surgery, a field where sub-20-millisecond latency can be a matter of life and death. They dive into the specific latency requirements for telesurgery, citing a University of Washington trial that achieved 18-millisecond round-trip latency over a 5G edge network between Seattle and Spokane. The hosts discuss the technical challenges of packet loss and jitter, the need for local edge nodes and fallback mechanisms, and how this technology could expand surgical access to rural and…
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