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Nicholas Laughlin ITT-370 17 September 2023 Professor Lisa Gasko Designing a Wireless Network Part 3 The hospital will be upgrading its wireless network form the current proprietary standard to the new 802.11 standards. With the new standards the network will be able to run faster, upgraded security protocols, and be able to connect to more devices throughout the hospital and have more coverage area. The new IEEE 802.11 standard design will be beneficial to what the hospital is looking for in their upgrade because it will be built specifically towards the hospitals needs to reduce the current problem that has congested on the network from all the current devices on the network. The new installation will have access points installed strategically to maximize the amount of coverage and minimize the interreference from the bandwidth, walls, and medical equipment. IP phones will be designated too specific hospital staff to ensure that they are constantly accessible to the patient data and for emergencies. A problem that the hospital’s new network may encounter is from the medical equipment that produce radiation and/or electromagnetic (EM) waves throughout the hospital that will affect the wireless network. With the hospitals medical equipment which is essential for patient care it will cause interreference which causes problems for a wireless network because of all the devices and equipment are using EM waves and the access points will be transmitting and receiving data through EM waves. The hospital will have a great amount of access points throughout to ensure that coverage is overlapping each access point and to ensure that they do not tamper

with the medical equipment. A solution for the network to avoid the medical equipment will be during the examination phase of testing where each network devices will work best with the equipment to provide strong signals of network. Another solution for the medical equipment to not tamper with the network signal is to make sure that both are operating on different frequencies. 2.4 GHz frequency will be issued to all medical equipment that is operated. 5 GHz will be the frequency where the main network is going to be located on and where all the non-medical equipment will be on. The wireless network will be specially designed for the staff having strong Wi-Fi connection throughout the hospital. The wireless IP phones will be set up and available for the specific medical staff to have a constant Wi-Fi connection throughout the hospital and will be ready to use at any time during operations. Wireless standards will be in accordance with 802.11ax standards which will support multiple connection simultaneously at a high data speed. The wireless IP phones will be configured to use transmission control protocol (TCP) because of the ability that the communication standards for delivering data and messages through a network and in many devices will be connected wireless. With the amount of access points and coverage in the hospital it will be impossible for the wireless IP phone to drop signal. Security is one of the majority problems within the hospital and some ways to prevent sensitive data to be easily accessible is to create virtual local area networks (VLAN) to ensure that specific traffic is defined within the different groups. Designating certain permissions for the medical staff to have and to never have full access to change or fix any issues. The scanners that is being added to the wireless network will be able to scan a patients wristband and pull all of their data onto the device. The network can implement different types of methods to prevent some network failure but it could not prevent fully network failure from happening.

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