VLAN
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VLAN
July 13, 2014
Lawrence Master
Virtual Local Area Networks is the group of different LAN which can communicate with each other as if they were all located in the same physical segment. VLAN allow us to group the devices into a single domain, which enable us to confine broadcast traffic to devices that needs the access, and also will reduce the traffic on the rest of the network.
The benefits of VLAN are the following:
It will provide us with higher performance.
It will improve our manageability over the network.
It will simplify the software configurations.
It will increase our security options for the network.
To improve the performance in these company, the possible implementation of switches to re-route people straight to the router instead of going through different hubs. In order to reduce the network congestion, we can divide the network logically speaking into broadcast domains which will add security to it. All the departments in the organization will be divided by their group function, given them their own segment.
By having the network divided into four sections, the network will better secure by making each section compartmentalize. We can achieve this by having each section logically separated from the rest which will restrict the access from segment to segment. If we want to increase security on the network, this is the way to do it. In controlling the access to the individuals segment on the company, we can establish users groups based on their required function; allowing the segment to access the information needed and making sure that only those who need it, access it.
The VLAN membership to use could be a port assigned based, this will facilitate the future reorganization of the physical network layout. The type of switch that we can use could be Layer 3. Layer 3 will give us the ability to have a greater control over the LAN, user assignments, and network which Layer 2 will failed to provide us with those benefits.
VLAN
July 13, 2014
Lawrence Master
Virtual Local Area Networks is the group of different LAN which can communicate with each other as if they were all located in the same physical segment. VLAN allow us to group the devices into a single domain, which enable us to confine broadcast traffic to devices that needs the access, and also will reduce the traffic on the rest of the network.
The benefits of VLAN are the following:
It will provide us with higher performance.
It will improve our manageability over the network.
It will simplify the software configurations.
It will increase our security options for the network.
To improve the performance in these company, the possible implementation of switches to re-route people straight to the router instead of going through different hubs. In order to reduce the network congestion, we can divide the network logically speaking into broadcast domains which will add security to it. All the departments in the organization will be divided by their group function, given them their own segment.
By having the network divided into four sections, the network will better secure by making each section compartmentalize. We can achieve this by having each section logically separated from the rest which will restrict the access from segment to segment. If we want to increase security on the network, this is the way to do it. In controlling the access to the individuals segment on the company, we can establish users groups based on their required function; allowing the segment to access the information needed and making sure that only those who need it, access it.
The VLAN membership to use could be a port assigned based, this will facilitate the future reorganization of the physical network layout. The type of switch that we can use could be Layer 3. Layer 3 will give us the ability to have a greater control over the LAN, user assignments, and network which Layer 2 will failed to provide us with those benefits.