NTN nursing school Network Design

Running Head: NTN nursing school Network Design
Network Design Assignment
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IT Network Design for NTN Private Nursing School
Introduction
Network designing is a plan on how a given network will be implemented in an organization. For
this case we will discuss the implementation of networks in NTN private Nursing school.
1. The Goals of NTN nursing school
The Goals for NTN private nursing school are those statements made by the organization of what
needs to be accomplished to implement a strategy. The NTN nursing school has a goal to
increase their efficiency provision of the teaching services to the students away from the school.
NTN has made agreements with three private hospitals in Sydney, Darwin, and Cairns where
their satellite campuses are located respectively to provide the internship and training to the
students of the nursing school (Ciccarelli, et al., 2012).
The NTN nursing schools have a plan to form virtual classrooms for the students in the satellite
campuses by implementing live-video streaming. A student in the satellite campuses and the
instructor who is Sydney will also be able to interact together during the event of live-video.
NTN is also wishing to increase the populations of students in the satellite campuses by double
the number as expected in some small period of time. As a profit making organization, NTN will
increase the profits with an increase in the number of the medical student as seen in the case of
Ciccarelli, et al., 2012.
Moreover, NTN private nursing school is planning to provide telemedicine and healthcare
service to the community within the school. The satellite campuses will be made up of small

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mobile groups where each consists of a doctor and some medical students. Both the mobile
teams that are, in Darwin and in Cairns will provide medical services and consultations to the
needy patients at their homes. In this way, the NTN will be aiming at providing better customer
services to their customers and needy patient patience who may not be their patients.
Constraints that will affect NTN’s goals
With the number of the goals aimed by the NTN nursing school, some of the problems will arise
at or before the implantations of the goals as described by (Miller, 2015)
Policies and politics
The NTN nursing school management will experience office politics between the administration
and the network design developer. Any discussion involving the office politics can be so
dangerous to the NTN nursing school. The best thing for the network design management is to
just listen to the politics from the students and the management in the satellite campuses. It is a
fact that no matter how the project will sound good still they will be people feeling something
against it (M & Konstantinos, 2017) .
Sharing the NTN policies with the medical students together with the developer of the network
design may be a difficult thing when the technical requirements are not met. As a network
designer, a big mistake may happen at this point non-technical issues may be taken lightly or
forgotten making it a constraint to the institution’s goals.
Staffing and Budgeting constraints

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Ensuring that the budget of designing a network to the NTN nursing institution may be a
problem to make it fit. Since the budget includes the buying of the networking equipment,
purchasing the home-care vehicle, acquisition of telemedicine and healthcare services. As the
project proceeds there will be need of increasing the staff such as the network administrators,
instructors and other subordinate staff according to (Budka, et al., 2014).
Scheduling
The development process of the main campus and satellite campuses takes a considerate amount
of time to develop and come up with. There a number of tools which exist for coming up with a
schedule which includes assignment of resources, milestones, analysis of critical path among
others. The NTN nursing school may have to wait a little bit longer for the implementation of the
goals.
2. Technical Goals
Knowing and analyzing the technical goals of the NTN nursing school students will help the
school to suggest the appropriate technologies for the achievements of the goals of the students
and probably there patients as said by Ghosh (Ghosh, 2012). These goals includes the
affordability of the education, availability of the lectures despite the location of the students,
adaptability of the medical students and doctors in provision of the medical services to the needy
patients, ability to manage the students irrespective of their location from the campus through the
network, performance of the network established to connect satellite campuses, main campus and
the home-care vehicles and the security of the network.
Tradeoffs