THIS IS THE SCENARIO

Scenario

The four story Bayside Memorial is currently at its maximum capacity of 250 patients, and is expanding to include remote locations. The IT Director, Cheryl Martin, has called-in a favor from her Alma Mater ECPI, to recruit their best talent. A certified project manager, Cheryl has allotted 5 weeks towards the development and testing of potential solutions in a virtual environment.

The planning phase of this project will involve:

Choosing a domain name to be used on their private network.

Determining which IT services will be hosted internally and which will be contracted out

Creating an IP addressing scheme for data exchange to occur between the sites

Must accommodate the existing devices outlined in the project overview.

Must accommodate growth. Bayside Memorial is aggressively expanding its footprint in the region. Additional sites will be added to their network in the future. The IP address plan must allow for expansion, and for likely internal growth at the three existing sites.

With only five weeks, and limited budget, Ms. Martin can only employ a limited number of new hires. For the participating ECPI students she is asking each of them to submit an IP Address subnet solution for her review. Obviously, those who fail to submit correct results within the required time-frame, will not be considered for extended roles in this project.

Facility and Expansion information

Bayside Memorial Hospital (Functioning as the anchor site for all Information Technology).

Tiburon Medical Park 36 employees/98 devices, plans to double in number

Larkspur Ambulatory Rehab Complex 61 employees, plans to add 24.

3 additional sites to be announced within the year, variable in size, but not more than 100 employees each, and no more than 300 network nodes total in each.

Information Services Department information and background

Currently, everything is on a single 192.168.1.0/24 network, utilizing one router with a public IP Address

Internal network gateway 192.168.0.1/24, and external WAN gateway 123.234.210.129/29

FTP, DHCP, and Domain administration are done from a single server. DNS uses a public server address imported from the WarpSpeed Internet Service Provider (ISP)

The hospitals email and web server is hosted externally via third party contracts.

The main distribution facility (MDF) consist of the one router, (5) 48 port switches, and 21 wireless access points, 5 for each patient floor, and 1 for the guests lobby.

Due to employees bringing devices from home and patients/guests bringing in iPads/tablets, this address scheme does not provide enough addresses.

The lack of separation between hospital and guests resulted in a recent Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) violation. Martin is also not comfortable with the current overall level of security since all guests can login without passwords or usage restrictions.

Redesign Requirements

First task is to redesign the current Bayside Memorial Hospitals network infrastructure. This means to separate data traffic as follows:

89 wireless host nodes: Doctors/Nurses medically sensitive data traffic.

26 wired host nodes: Doctors/Nurses/Nursing Workstations

500 Data Collection nodes.

Includes both Doctors/Nurses mobile Data Collection Tablets

Nurses COWs [Computers On Wheels],

Patient wireless monitoring and tracking devices:

Patient RFID wrist ID bands

Patient bed sensor mats

ECG Wireless Transmitters

15 wired nodes: Hospitals Administrative staff. (plus one file server)

Hospitals Administrative/Patient Registration/Billing/other

250 patient/guest nodes: Patients and Guests personal network, for convenience and minimum administrative overhead, should be one bridged Wireless Network But COMPLETELY Isolated from any and all medically sensitive hospital network traffic of any kind. Patients personal network traffic commonly used for checking of their personal E-Mail, Web Surfing, etc. is not covered by HIPPA.

WarpSpeed ISP provides a 123.234.210.128/29 network for WAN connectivity and could be repurposed to use with the site expansions.

Introduction

Review the scenario before reviewing and answering the assignment questions for this activity.

Scenario

Continuing with our scenario, six new pre-configured WorkStations have just arrived for evaluation. If they pass the testing phase and meet all other requirements, they may be recommended for bulk purchasing. They had arrived at the end of the previous shift, who have unpacked the WorkStations, assembled the individual components, and connected them to the Test-Bed switch. You are going to be responsible for the initial round of testing.

Assignment Questions

Determine, outline and define what general procedures and what specific commands and/or configurations you would perform to accomplish or verify the following:

How can you determine the Logical IP Addresses of each WorkStations? Justify your answer.

How can you determine the Physical Hardware Addresses of each WorkStations?

Can you successfully test both the Physical and Logical connection and connectivity between each?

How would you determine the Physical connection to the network?

How would you verify the Logical connectivity on the network?

What other procedures and/or commands may you consider using?

Where there any issues with any of the new WorkStations?

If so, what where these issues?

What actions, if any, did you perform to resolve these issues?