Network Proposal for Cleveland Hospital

This report analyzes the requirements of Cleveland Hospital and provides a network design to meet their specific demands. It includes a summary of the future network requirements, network design, and observations.

Running head: NETWORK PROPOSAL FOR CLEVELAND HOSPITAL
Network Proposal for Cleveland Hospital
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Summary
The purpose of this report is to analyse the requirements of Cleveland Hospital and based on
which provide a network design that would enable the institute to meet the network specific
demands of their doctors and nurses. The report accomplishes this by summarizing the future
network requirements of the institute and provides a network design of that future network.
The functional requirements are also proved by the study with the help of output of ping
commands. Thereafter the report ends by providing observations in concluding notes.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
Requirements Analysis...........................................................................................................3
Network Design.....................................................................................................................4
Output (Ping reply from PCs of First and Fifth floor)...........................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The report lists down the different set of requirements of the existing as well as the
proposed network, following which a network design is provided. The report begins by
noting down the requirements in a tabular format and providing explanations on how these
requirements can be met. Next, with the help of Cisco Packet Tracer it presents the network
design and explains the role of the components with respect to the requirements (Chou, Baker
and Vega-Herrera 2016). Through the output of a ping command, it proves the successful
communication between devices of different floors (Stasinopoulos, Ntantogian and Xenakis
2019). The report then ends with observations drawn from the assessment as part of
conclusions.
Discussion
Requirements Analysis
Floor PCs Servers Connections
Floor 1 60 15 75
Floor 2 50 0 50
Floor 3 45 0 45
Floor 4 42 0 42
Floor 5 33 0 33
Floor 6 39 0 39
Floor 7 20 0 20
Floor 8 58 0 58
Floor 9 55 0 55
Floor 10 44 0 44

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Total 461
Requirements Table
At the very least, each of the ten floors should have a desktop PC containing the
corresponding information for the activities performed in the floor. The floors, Floor 5 to
Floor 10 houses information regarding the patients that are being treated there. Since the
doctors and nurses will repeatedly need to access this information, it should be possible to
access the information of PCs of these floors from every other floor from the individual
laptops of the doctors. For this, it is ensured that every floor possess a wireless local area
network (WLAN) connection to serve the 40 laptops already in operation as well as
bandwidth for 20 more that are scheduled to arrive in due time (Cao, Cheung and Yuk 2015).
The first floor is understood to be the operations room comprising all the 15 servers and up to
60 PCs. Please note that the requirements table provided here does not include information
regarding laptops which make use of the network in ad hoc basis.
Assumptions
It is assumed that internet access is relayed from the router to the building of
Cleveland Hospital by using a multi layered switch to distribute the network connection to
the ten different floors through 10 regular network switches. The main router tasked with
relaying internet access to the building is believed to be installed in the first floor only that
oversees the operations. The doctors and nurses are assumed to frequent all the floors of the
hospital building depending on their tasks and hence wireless access points and laptops are
specified for each of the ten floors.

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Mobility Requirements:
To ensure mobility of services, especially for doctors, nurses and other medical
students, laptops are assigned to each and every one of them along with access to the
hospital’s WLAN so that information of different floors can be accessed from other floors at
any time.
Security Requirements:
The security is ensured by the SOPHOS security application that works as a software
firewall solution (Hernandez, Jimenez and Marchena 2018). This software package is also
used to prompt for authentications whenever access to the network is demanded.
Performance Requirements
The performance of the network or the network bandwidth is expected to
simultaneously meet the accumulated load of all the 461 devices of the network at any given
time (Yoo and Sim 2015). The bandwidth selected for the network is to ensure the above
criteria is met with decent internet speeds in the most demanding situations.
Wireless Networks: It should be possible for individual devices like PCs and laptops to
connect to the hospital’s network through the WLAN via the wireless access points residing
in all the ten floors thus eliminating any concerns relating to complications in cable
management for the hospital (Schulz-Zander et al. 2014). This also alleviates risks
concerning cable damage which gradually occur with day to day usage.

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Network Design
Figure 1: Proposed Network Design
The main router is responsible for relaying the internet access to all the components of
the network. Since this router is assumed to have been installed in the first floor, it is
positioned in the network diagram in the same vertical plane as the devices of the first floor.
This network make it happen by employing a multi layered switch (Daadoo, Tarapiah and
Atalla 2016). This then distributes the connections among 10 other switches each responsible
for providing network connections to the devices of the respective floor.

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Output (Ping reply from PCs of First and Fifth floor)
Figure 2: Pinging PC5 from PC1
For the doctors and nurses to be to successfully access information contained in the
systems of floors 5 to 10, it is required that any device of the network placed in other floors to
be able to communicate with the systems of the floors containing information specific to the
patients. To ascertain this, ping messages are sent from the PC of floor 1 to PC of floor 5 and
through the screen dump posted above, it is observed that a healthy communication can exist
between them (Marchetta et al. 2017). This suggests it is very much possible for doctors to
access patient’s data from floors 5 to 10 by just connecting their laptop to the network
through the wireless access points.
Conclusion
In conclusion the report, successfully proposes the design of the future network of
Cleveland Hospital, which is done by summarizing the requirements, providing the network
layout as also discussing the role of the components according to requirements. It is observed

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that the institute will require a multi-layered switch along with 10 additional switches to
implement the future network. The functional requirement of information of floors 5 to 10
being accessible from every other floor is proved with the help of the output results of
pinging a PC of floor 5 from that of floor 1. This shows that doctors will not be having
problems accessing the information from laptops if they use the wireless access points from
the respective floors.

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Hernandez, L., Jimenez, G. and Marchena, P., 2018. Energy Efficiency Metrics of University
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Marchetta, P., Persico, V., Aceto, G., Botta, A. and Pescape, A., 2017. Measuring Networks
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