Report Progressive Hospital Case Study
Progressive Hospital Case study
1. Background
Progressive Hospital is split over two sites: Remuera and City Centre and is run by the City Centre Health Board (CCHB). The sites are connected by a dedicated fiber link and are managed as one network.
There are also 30 Community Clinics which access the Hospital’s network using Telecom’s Frame Relay service.
CCHB has approximately 15000 users and 200 servers.
1
Local Area Network
1 Network setup within each site:
Equipment: At each of the two CCHB sites, there are two Core Switches. These are Cisco Catalyst 6500 switches incorporating Route Switch Modules (RSMs) for Layer 3 switching. (Appendix A)
The core switches are high end components, offering scalable switching bandwidth up to 256 Gbps. They are chassis based and accept cards to support different media. CCHB use a number of different card types, including 1Gbps fiber, 100Mbps fiber, 10Mbps fiber, 100Mbps UTP.
At each site, the second core switch is cascaded off the first. Building Switches are then cascaded off the Core Switches. These Building Switches are a variety of Cisco Catalyst Switches, including models 4000, 4500, 5000 and 5500. (Appendix B)
Servers are Compaq Proliant, running Windows operating system, or Sun Servers running UNIX. The UNIX machines are used for specific applications, usually involving an Oracle database. Management and maintenance of the Sun Servers is outsourced to EDS (New Zealand office of an international IT consultancy).
Each site has a secure server room, which requires card and pin code for access. Inside the room, four rows of approximately 200 rack-mounted servers are positioned on top of a false floor where all cabling runs, protected by H2O sensors. These sensors detect minute water quantities. On the ceiling are smoke detectors, and three air conditioning units circulate and regulate
1. Background
Progressive Hospital is split over two sites: Remuera and City Centre and is run by the City Centre Health Board (CCHB). The sites are connected by a dedicated fiber link and are managed as one network.
There are also 30 Community Clinics which access the Hospital’s network using Telecom’s Frame Relay service.
CCHB has approximately 15000 users and 200 servers.
1
Local Area Network
1 Network setup within each site:
Equipment: At each of the two CCHB sites, there are two Core Switches. These are Cisco Catalyst 6500 switches incorporating Route Switch Modules (RSMs) for Layer 3 switching. (Appendix A)
The core switches are high end components, offering scalable switching bandwidth up to 256 Gbps. They are chassis based and accept cards to support different media. CCHB use a number of different card types, including 1Gbps fiber, 100Mbps fiber, 10Mbps fiber, 100Mbps UTP.
At each site, the second core switch is cascaded off the first. Building Switches are then cascaded off the Core Switches. These Building Switches are a variety of Cisco Catalyst Switches, including models 4000, 4500, 5000 and 5500. (Appendix B)
Servers are Compaq Proliant, running Windows operating system, or Sun Servers running UNIX. The UNIX machines are used for specific applications, usually involving an Oracle database. Management and maintenance of the Sun Servers is outsourced to EDS (New Zealand office of an international IT consultancy).
Each site has a secure server room, which requires card and pin code for access. Inside the room, four rows of approximately 200 rack-mounted servers are positioned on top of a false floor where all cabling runs, protected by H2O sensors. These sensors detect minute water quantities. On the ceiling are smoke detectors, and three air conditioning units circulate and regulate