From: nouman abbasi (abbasi.nouman@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 16 2008 - 03:40:03 ART
Thanks Anthony J Sequeira for the useful information.
<<God Bless You>>
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Anthony J Sequeira <
asequeira@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:
> The first reason typically given is scalability. This is due to the fact
> that with VLANs we can break the network up into smaller, more manageable
> broadcast domains (TCP/IP subnets).
>
> When you replace your hubs with switches and setup your workstations for
> Full Duplex operation, your network has just become incredibly more
> efficient. This is due to eliminated collisions as each system is now
> intelligently having its traffic forwarded to the correct unicast
> recipient.
>
> The problem that still remains, however, is broadcast traffic. The more
> switches you add, and the more clients that join the single VLAN, the more
> broadcast traffic becomes an issue. VLANs allow us to carve the single
> broadcast domain into multiple broadcast domains. This gives us a
> scalability solution for broadcast traffic as well as unicast.
>
> I hope this helps you...for more generic information on the wonders of
> VLANs
> - check out -
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLAN
>
> Warmest regards,
>
> Anthony J. Sequeira, CCIE #15626, CCSI #23251
> Senior CCIE Instructor
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> On 10/15/08 6:49 PM, "nouman abbasi" <abbasi.nouman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Why do u use VLANS ??
> >
> > Most common answer is Security / Broadcast Domain ??
> > can some add more to it...
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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