Starlink Compatible
Diagnostic radiology. Clear sky required. Nothing else.
Sirona's adaptive bitrate streaming adjusts to satellite bandwidth in real time. Pair it with Starlink, and your radiologists can read from a mountain cabin, a rural clinic, or the middle of the ocean. Same platform, same quality, no infrastructure.
How Sirona is Different
The last geographic constraint on radiology is gone
Legacy PACS requires a wired network connection to an on-premise server, often over a VPN with strict bandwidth requirements. Take that laptop to a cabin and you can't read. Sirona streams images from a global CDN using Netflix-style adaptive bitrate encoding — the same technology that lets you watch a movie on a plane. When bandwidth fluctuates on Starlink (typical for satellite), Sirona adjusts quality dynamically. Initial images load fast at compressed quality, then refine to full diagnostic resolution as bandwidth stabilizes. Your radiologists read from anywhere a Starlink dish can see the sky.
How Sirona works over satellite
Adaptive bitrate streaming, zero on-premise infrastructure, and a global CDN make Sirona uniquely suited to variable-bandwidth connections.
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming
Images stream at compressed quality first, then refine to full diagnostic resolution as bandwidth allows. Reads start immediately — no waiting for a full download.
Global CDN
Images are cached on edge servers worldwide. Starlink connects you to the nearest CDN node, minimizing latency regardless of your physical location.
Zero On-Premise Infrastructure
No PACS server, no SAN, no VPN. Just a laptop, a Starlink dish, and a browser. The entire platform lives in the cloud.
Bandwidth Resilience
Satellite bandwidth fluctuates with weather and congestion. Sirona adjusts dynamically — no dropped sessions, no frozen screens, no restarts.
Disaster Recovery Connectivity
Starlink operates independently from terrestrial ISPs. When your primary internet goes down, Starlink keeps your radiologists reading.
Rural & Remote Access
Critical access hospitals and mobile imaging units in areas without broadband can run a full diagnostic radiology platform over Starlink.
Satellite-ready by design, not by accident
Streaming
Diagnostic images that stream like video
Sirona uses the same adaptive bitrate approach that Netflix and YouTube use for video. Images are encoded at multiple quality levels and streamed progressively — a compressed preview loads in seconds, then refines to full diagnostic resolution as bandwidth allows. On Starlink, where latency averages 25-60ms and throughput varies between 50-200 Mbps, this means a radiologist can start reading almost immediately while the system catches up to full quality in the background. No waiting for a complete download. No frozen viewer.
Progressive image loading — start reading in seconds
Multiple quality tiers adapt to real-time bandwidth
Handles Starlink's variable throughput (50-200 Mbps) gracefully
Same streaming engine used by all Sirona customers regardless of connection type
Resilience
Your practice doesn't go dark when your ISP does
Starlink operates on a completely separate infrastructure from terrestrial internet providers. When a fiber cut, a provider outage, or a natural disaster takes down your primary connection, Starlink keeps working. For practices that depend on continuous reading — emergency radiology, stroke protocols, overnight teleradiology — this is genuine disaster recovery for your clinical workflow. Set up a Starlink dish as a backup connection, and your radiologists switch over seamlessly. Sirona doesn't care which pipe the bits come through.
Independent satellite infrastructure — no shared failure points with terrestrial ISPs
Seamless connection switching — Sirona sessions persist across network changes
Covers natural disaster scenarios where ground infrastructure is damaged
Backup connectivity that costs less than a single hour of reading downtime
Access
Enterprise radiology for places without broadband
There are thousands of critical access hospitals, rural clinics, and mobile imaging units in areas where reliable broadband doesn't exist. These facilities typically can't run a modern PACS because legacy systems require dedicated infrastructure and stable, high-bandwidth connections. Sirona on Starlink changes that equation completely. A rural hospital in Montana gets the same diagnostic viewer, the same AI-powered reporter, and the same 24x7 support as a health system in New York. The only hardware on site is a laptop and a satellite dish.
Full diagnostic platform — viewer, reporter, worklist, AI — over satellite
No on-site IT infrastructure required
Same diagnostic-quality viewer regardless of connection type
Opens teleradiology markets in regions without terrestrial broadband
Setup
From shipping crate to first read in under an hour
A standard Starlink kit ships with everything needed to get online: dish, router, cables, base. Mount the dish with line of sight to the sky, plug in the router, and you have internet. From there it's a browser tab and a Sirona login — no PACS server to configure, no VPN appliance to deploy, no images to migrate to the device. A rural clinic can stand up a full diagnostic-quality reading station in the time it takes most legacy vendors to ship the install acknowledgment email.
Standard Starlink kit: dish, router, cables — no extra hardware
No on-site PACS, SAN, or VPN appliance to deploy or maintain
Browser-based access — works on any laptop already in the building
Repeatable across rural clinics, mobile units, or temporary sites in hours
Connectivity that keeps up
25-60ms
typical Starlink latency — fast enough for diagnostic streaming
50-200 Mbps
Starlink throughput range — Sirona adapts automatically
0
on-premise hardware needed at any site
Multi-AZ
high-availability architecture, regardless of connection type
Radiology without geographic limits
Starlink in Action: Sirona's 2023 Launch Event from Mount Wilson
In 2023, Sirona launched RadOS to the world. To show how being built different changes everything about where and how you practice, we filmed our launch demo at 10,000 ft above sea level — at the base of Mount Wilson in Telluride, Colorado.
All you need is internet and power
“The great thing about Sirona is its accessibility. All you need is internet and power — from my side of the standpoint, Sirona provides all the rest. Sirona infrastructure is cloud-based. I need to log in to a web browser, and I can immediately start reading studies. It has an integrated reporter. I can immediately start dictating studies, and I can send back my reports instantaneously. Every component, every possible need that I had in order to provide the best care possible — in order to provide my vision to the people of North Dakota — was easily attainable through Sirona.”
Dr. Luke Roller
President, IMC
FAQs
Can I really read diagnostic studies over Starlink?
What Starlink speeds does Sirona need?
Can I use Starlink as a backup if my primary internet goes down?
Does this work for rural hospitals without broadband?
Is there any loss of diagnostic quality over satellite?
What about satellite latency for dictation and reporting?