Patton=Fuller

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Project

University of Phoenix

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital must take many different things into consideration when deciding what type of network they would like to deploy for not only their staff but aslo access for patients and visitors to those patients as well. Not only does hospital IT staff need to consider data accessibility and connectivity, but network security as well. In addition to that security, Patton-Fuller Community Hospital needs to ensure that there is as little latency on the network as possible as there may be times when a person’s life may depend of data transmission speeds.

Network

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital’s network structure is 1000 BaseT, with some areas of the hospital utilizing different network standards. Some areas, such as Radiology, use as their network connection the 1000 BaseF standard.

From a networking perspective, Patton-Fuller Community Hospital is broken out into two discrete areas. These areas are defined as clinical and administrative. The clinical areas are as follows: the emergency rooms and operating rooms, the pharmacy, labs, radiology, all of the doctor’s personal offices, the wards, all outpatient examining rooms and the intensive care units. The administrative areas are as follows: the information technology department, the admitting and discharge areas, facilities, Human Resources, hospital senior management and the Finance area.

The administrative areas all connect to the network using the 1000 Base T while the clinical areas all connect to the network using 1000 Base F. The primary differences between the two types of cabling are two-fold. These differences are cost and the way in which data is transmitted through the lines, with data being transmitted through the CAT 6 cable with short electrical bursts and data traveling through the fiber line using light as the medium. The fiber lines are quite...