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Assignment description
Please see attached.
Assessment criteria
Saltney Hospital
Introduction
The purpose of this assignment enables you to demonstrate your knowledge and
understanding computer networks. You are required to produce report containing
1500 words +/-10%. The assignment is worth 100 marks, weighted at 50%. Some
aspects of this assignment require you to carry out additional research where you
will be asked to make judgements about what is best for a particular scenario.
Please note that there is not always one right answer. However, you need to justify
your reasons for any choice you make to get high marks.
Scenario
Mr. Pedley, the IT director at Saltney Hospital, is responsible for managing the
network. Mr. Pedley has requested your help in proposing a network solution that
will meet the hospitals requirements. The hospital is growing, and the management
has released funds for network improvements.
The medical staff would like to be able to access medical systems using laptops from
any of the patient rooms. Doctors and nurses should be able to access patient
medical records, x-rays, prescriptions, and recent patient information. Mr. Pedley
purchased new servers and placed them in the data centre. The wireless LAN
(WLAN) has approximately 30 laptops, and about 15 more are due in six months. The
servers must have high availability.
Patient rooms are on oors 6 through 10 of the hospital building. Doctors should be
able to roam and access the network from any of the oors. A radio-frequency
report mentions that a single access point located in each communication closet can
reach all the rooms on each oor. The current network has ten segments that reach
a single router that also serves the Internet. The router is running Routing
Information Protocol Version 1 (RIPv1). The back-end new servers are located in the
same segment as those used on oor 1. Mr. Pedley mentions that users have
complained of slow access to the servers. He also hands you a table with current IP
addresses (see Table 1).
You need to produce the following in the form of a management report (word count
= 1500 +/-10%):