Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Week 3

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital

Beau Hale

CMGT/554

December 17, 2012

Dominic Roberts

Patton–Fuller Community Hospital’s network system consist of two major parts, the first part is the executive part that connects the hospitals executive management, human resources department, operations, IT and data center, and other administrative departments. The first network connects using a 1000base-T Gigabyte network connection that uses a typical Cat6 cabling (Apollo Group Inc., 2008). The second major part of the network connects the departments of radiology, operating room, wards, ICU’s, and the other clinical departments by using a 1000base F fiber optic-based connection. This connection is also a gigabyte connection with both parts connected to the network bridge switch that acts as a core switch.

Observing the network structured layout (Apollo Group Inc., 2008) reveals that the deployment decisions made depend on the physical distances between the nods in each major part of the network. The first part of the network system, the nods are obviously in one physical place. The distances between them are not more than three hundred meters. Assuming this based on that the 1000Base T network cannot be fully efficient at a distance more than three hundred meters. The second major part of the network system is in physical locations. This is a further distance than the executive network. This is assuming that the multi-core fiber network can be fully efficient at a distance of up to two to three kilometers.

The hospital’s administrative network consists of Apple iMACS and thin computers that use 1000Base T with CAT 6 cables. Work stations belonging to Executive Management has Apple iMAC computers with 24” monitors, 2.4 GHz speed, 2 GB RAM, and a 500 MB hard drive. Human Resources, OPNS, and the finance senior managers have Apple iMACS with 20” monitors, 2...