Case Study Mr. Peterson, the IT director at Harsborough Hospital, is responsible for managing the network. Mr. Peterson has requested your help in proposing a network solution that that will will meet meet the hospit hospital’ al’s s requi require remen ments. ts. The hospit hospital al is grow growing ing,, and the management has released funds for network improements. The medical sta! would like to be able to access medical systems using laptops from any of the patient rooms. "octors and nurses should be able to access patient medical records, #$rays, prescriptions, and recent patient information. Mr. Peterson purch purchase ased d new new serer serers s and placed placed them them in the the data data center center.. The wirele wireless ss %&' ()%&'* has appro#imately + laptops, and about - more are due in si# months. The serers must hae high aailability. aailability. Patient rooms are on /oors 0 through - of the hospital building. "octors should be able able to roam roam and access access the network network from from any of the the /oors /oors.. & wirele wireless ss radio radio$$ frequency (12* surey 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 seres the )&'. 3nly a single link is used from the /oors to the core router. The router is running 3pen 4hortest Path 2irst (34P2* Protocol, and they want to moe to a routing protocol that is easier to manage. The back$end new serers are located in the same segment as those used on /oor -. Mr. Peterson mentions that users addresses (4ee Table -*
