Vlan

As companies grow and expand, and as networks grow more advanced, the need to maintain logical networks has also grown more advanced. For example, one floor of a building that holds a certain part of the company might not have the room to add more people, but another part of the building has enough room to hold extra people. Having a typical network makes moving people harder to do, but if a VLAN is implemented people from that crowded area can move to a less crowded area with ease since they can still have access to the VLAN that their old floor had access to without stressing the network of their new location.

A major benefit of creating a VLAN, or otherwise known as a Virtual Local Area Network is the following: Virtual Local area networks are logically segmented on an organizational basis. For example, the VLAN can be segmented either by function, project teams, and so on and so forth. A business or company can have all their departments segmented into individual groups. All work stations and servers used by a particular workgroup can be connected to the same VLAN even if they are intermingled with another workgroup, or if they are not connected physically to the network. Also reconfiguration of a VLAN takes place via software instead of physically disconnecting the work station and moving it to another location.

The plan that I came up with to segment the network into different broadcast domains in order to avoid bandwidth consumption is to have each floor/department on a different segment. Marketing would have its own segment as well as engineering, operations, and the call center. By letting each floor/department be on its own broadcast domain, it will eliminate bandwidth consumption because each broadcast domain is isolated so that any one that is not connected to it cannot see it; the isolated domain blocks unwanted people from connecting to the segmented network and using up bandwidth.

Since VLANs isolate broadcast domains, the network will be...