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Assessment - Major Assignment

Introduction
In this assessment the students are required to plan and design a wireless enterprise network for a hospital. To design the enterprise network, you are required to perform requirement analysis, understand the site, including the infrastructure and any line of sight issues. Since the buildings are medical in nature, you must take special care when deploying wireless communications. Medical equipment may be sensitive to wireless devices and channels. You must pay special attention to limiting radio frequencies in and around the emergency room area to avoid any interference

Task
The IS manager from Jones Hospital has hired you as a consultant to provide a wireless LAN solution for their hospital network. The hospital employs just over 800 employees, working in a complex composed of seven buildings in an urban area. All the buildings are close enough in proximity that employees frequently walk between buildings. The management staff wants to deploy wireless technology in their enterprise network. They have heard that this type of network will save them money as opposed to the current leased line network. They believe that the added mobility will also dramatically increase productivity. Since the staff moves from building to building, it seems to be the right idea to provide them with computer equipment and data that will roam with them. The area that the hospital buildings cover is shown in the Figure 2.

The assessment requires you to plan and design a wireless network for the hospital using any industry tool of your choice. Citation of sources is mandatory and must be in the IEEE style.