I am new to the Conquest DICOM application, and actually new to medical imaging, period.
The IT company I work for has taken on IT support for a local radiology firm. They have a PC running Conquest DICOM Server 1.4.17d to forward studies from the local hospital to an outside reading service at night when no local radiologists are on hand. Upload speed is an issue on this system, as we never see anything more than 1.1 Mb/s.
The studies being uploaded look to to broken into a very large number of very small files, and there is a very high amount of latency in the process of uploading a 512KB file, getting an acknowledgement, proceeding with the next 512KB file, and so on, until all 200, 400, or even 1200 megabytes have been uploaded.
The receiving service has suggested looking into multi-threaded sending. I see that I can specify multiple export converters, but it is unclear whether they can all actually run the same "forward to" going to the same destination. If so, that would appear to give me a multi-threaded send, but if that's not a valid configuration, or perhaps even a dangerous one, I need to know before I make the experiment.
Can I configure multiple export converters with the same task, specifically "forward to AE-whatever," all going to the same AE?