Health Systems, Inc. is a regional hospital located in a rural county outside of Washington, DC. The CIO has hired you as a business analyst. You are responsible for determining the requirements for a new local area network (LAN) in a 150-bed maternity building scheduled to be built on the hospital's campus. The hospital currently has about 115 employees out of which 85 need to have desktop computers connecting to the network over a wired connection. The other 30 employees need to have laptops connecting over wireless connection. All employees need to have access to the Internet using the hospitals network connection to an Internet Service Provider (ISP). The hospital would like to have a web server managed by the hospital IT staff locally at the hospital IT department. The web server will provide web sites and information about the hospital for the public access. The hospital has 5 floors and the IT department along with the server and network equipment room are located in the basement. Design the cabling system for the Health System Hospital, Make sure to review the information provided such as: the number of employees with desktops since you need to provide cabling for them, he number of floors in the building, the location of the network equipment, and the needed connection for the ISP for Internet connectivity. You need to satisfy the following requirements:

1. Define the basic concepts of networking technology, including cable network architecture.

2. Describe the following network infrastructure components: demark, MDF, IDF, Patch Panel, and Equipment Rack.

3. Describe where the network infrastructure components would be located at the hospital.

4. Describe 2 recommended cabling standards that you will use for the cabling structure at the hospital.