Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Virtual Organization

Name: Mary Perry

School: UOP

Instructor: La Shanda Wilson

Assignment: Week3

Date: 3-15-2012

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Department, I will view and go over to discuss three main topics that will assist and help with a better understanding of the Hospital’s Networking Department. With the first topic, a full and complete analysis will be finished on the network systems in use. While going over the second topic, discussion on what approval may be actually missing from the Hospital’s current network. Finishing up during the last topic, I will make sure that the Hospital’s wireless technology in work and in use and how it may improve the hospitals network. Patton-Fuller Community Hospital right now uses a Local Area Network (LAN) up to part within the hospital with a particular Department using a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) standard. The Hospital’s make sure and look over top views that the IT network prospectively 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 BaseT Ethernet cable. A 1000 BaseT Ethernet cable also known as IEEE 802.3ab is the standard for gigabit Ethernet using copper wiring (Wikipedia, 2010). However, in the second half of the Hospital’s network structure, the Clinical Areas, a 1000 BaseF Ethernet cable is the standard. A 1000 BaseF, also known as 1000Base-F, is a physical layer baseband specification for Ethernet communications over optical fibers (Wikipedia, 2010). The Departments that make up the Administrative Departments of the Hospital are The Hospital’s Executive Management, Human Resources, Operations, Facilities, Finance (Apollo, 2008). Each of the afore-mentioned Departments is connected via a 1000 Base T CAT 6 cable. Each of these departments has dedicated computers that are assigned per the individual’s title in the organization.

The following departments: Pharmacy, Emergency rooms...