Network Design Case Study 2

Problem Statement: You are a Network Engineer, and have been tasked with designing a data network for Read Leaf Hospital with the following requirements:

Red Leaf Hospital is a medium-sized local hospital located in Dunn County, Menomonie, WI, with approximately 300 staff members supporting up to 900 patients. The hospital is expanding and doing very well financially, the management level has decided to invest for network improvements and wants to deploy cutting-edge technology for better patient care and high productivity.

The doctors and nurses would like to have the ability to access patient medical records and information from floor 3 through 7 with wireless access. 100 laptops were purchased and with approximately 50 more will be arrive in next three months. The hospital building is 350 feet long and 150 feet wide. There is one wiring closet per floor. A wireless site survey needs to be conducted to check if a single access point in wiring closet can reach all of the rooms of each floor.

The servers are put in the first floor. Because the doctors in Radiology and Oncology need to do medical imaging, they require large amounts of bandwidth. Some users have complained of slow access to the current servers, especially at peak hours. The current network use low-end inexpensive switches from different vendors. There is a main switch connecting to the switch in

each floor. The other switches connect through a daisy chain of switches. The design should improve the switching speed between floors. The servers need to be consolidated and expended to accommodate for the growth. The current network comprises of 10 network segment with single connection to the ISP. The protocol they currently use is OSPF, but they want to move to a routing protocol that is easier to manage. The current IP addressing scheme is presented in the following table.

Floor 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Servers 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Client 150 103 79 122 177 75 104 80 172 55

IP network 200.100.1.0/24 200.100.2.0/24 200.100.3.0/24 200.100.4.0/24 200.100.5.0/24 200.100.6.0/24 200.100.7.0/24 200.100.8.0/24 200.100.9.0/24 200.100.10.0/24

Mr. Smith, the IT director at Red Leaf Hospital, would like a proposal to upgrade the network

with updated switches that support 1 Gigabit Ethernet copper, 10 Gigabit Ethernet fiber, and power over Ethernet (PoE) and to provide 1 Gigabit Ethernet access to the servers. The proposal should cover secure WLAN access from floor 3 through 7, a new IP addressing scheme to reduce

the number of networks leased from the Internet service provider, and a plan to consolidate and update the current switched network and data center to improve the speed, bandwidth, availability, security and easy management to accommodate for the hospitals growth. The hospital must apply with the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

The final report should address the requirements imposed by the client with an estimate of all costs in budget format. The final report should include: Title page with group members Tables of Contents Executive summary Goals and objectives Existing network analysis including business needs, constraints, technical needs, constraints, existing network problems and topology Recommendations changed to the existing network Proposed network and new topology including addressing design, protocol design, security design, performance, and availability design Project timetable Budget summary; detailed budget; future funding plans, etc Evaluation of the changesanalysis of risk/benefits Conclusion Appended information Peer evaluation, each group member briefly describes his/her contribution to the project, or any problems that you encounter.

When presenting the case study or project, present it in a confident, professional, and enthusiastic manner. Your grade is based on the quality of your report and presentation.

FYI: The following information is summarized from your book to help you understand what are the business goals, needs, constraints, and technical goals, constraints, and how to learn the existing network. All information could be found in your textbook. I just summarize for your convenience. Identifying Organizational Goals Increase revenue Reduce operating costs Improve communications Shorten product development cycle Expand into worldwide markets Build partnerships with other companies Offer better customer support or new customer service Better use of existing equipment Indentifying Organizational limits Budget Staffing Schedule Politics and policies Identifying Applications and Services Name of application Type of application New Criticality Comments Application

Reaching Technical Goals Scalability: How much growth a network design must support Availability: The amount of time a network is available to users Security: Goals for protecting the organizations ability to conduct business Manageability: Goals for performance, configuration, accounting management Usability: Goals regarding the ease with which network users can access the network Affordability: The costs associated with purchasing and operating services/equipment

Identifying Technical Restraints Lack of qualified personnel Application compatibility Bandwidth availability Existing equipment Describe the Existing Network Characterize the existing network in terms of Its infrastructure Addressing Wiring and media Architectural and environmental constraints Air conditioning Heating Power Check the health of the network Performance Availability Bandwidth utilization Accuracy Efficiency Response time Status of major routers, switches, and firewalls o show buffers o show environment o show interfaces o show memory o show processes o show running-config o show version Auditing Tools such as Cisco Works, HP Openview, IBM Tivoli, NET Inspector, CDP, Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) Network Analysis Tools such as Cisco Netflow Technology, Ethereal, Sniffer