Patton Fuller Networking Needs-Cmgt Week 3 Ind

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Network

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital has its network architecture laid out on their intranet with specifications listed below. The current network is broken down departmentally. In order for there to be a better understanding of what resources Patton-Fuller currently possesses and what information needs to be updated, an analysis of the network is a necessity.

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital currently uses a Local Area Network (LAN) standard within the hospital with certain Departments using a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) standard. The Hospital’s top view IT network perspective has the Hospital divided into two sections, the Clinical Areas and the Administrative Function Areas. The entire Hospital‘s backbone (BN) network structure is a 1000 Base T Ethernet cable. A 1000 Base T Ethernet cable, also known as IEEE 802.3ab, is the standard for gigabit Ethernet using copper wiring (Wikipedia, 2012). However, in the clinical areas of the Hospital’s network structure, a 1000 Base F Ethernet cable is the standard. A 1000 Base F, also known as 1000Base-F, is a physical layer baseband specification for Ethernet communications over optical fibers (Wikipedia, 2012).

The Departments that make up the Administrative Departments of the Hospital are The Hospital’s Executive Management, Human Resources, Operations, Facilities, Finance, Information Technology, and Data Center (Apollo, 2012). Each of the administrative departments is connected via a 1000 Base T CAT 6 cable. Each of these departments has dedicated computers that are assigned to individuals based on their job title. The Executive Mgmt. have Apple iMacs, 24”, 2.4GHz, 2GB Ram, 500 MB HD, Wireless, 10/100/1000 Base T, OS Virtualization with MAC OS X Leopard & Windows XP work stations. The HR, OPNS, Finance Senior Manager Workstations are Apple iMac, 20”, 2 GHz, 350 MB HD, Wireless, 10/100/1000 Base T, OS Virtualization with MAC OS X Leopard / Windows XP OS. Personal...