Article VLANs Fundamentals

Traditionally, a Local Area Network (LAN) is a network of computers located within the same geographical area. Today, Local Area Networks are defined as a single broadcast domain. This means that if a host broadcasts information on LAN, the broadcast will be received by every other host on the same LAN. Broadcasts are prevented from leaving a LAN by using Layer-3 addressing, provided by a router or a layer-3 switch. The disadvantage of using routers (in comparison with L3 switch) is that they normally take more time to process incoming packets.   Given below are some of the advantages of VLANs:

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