Nt1310 Unit 6 Business Plan
WK 4 VLAN Plan
VLAN Plan
VLAN stands for Virtual Local Area Network is one of the latest network technologies that have been developed in the past few years. Local Area Network technologies are growing at an extremely fast pace and also the cost of the equipment required for implementing a secure network, has also become very expensive. The need for a cost effective networks but without compromising in network security and performance, paved the way for Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), which can meet the above requirement (Regan, 2004).
VLAN has a great deal of functionality to networks. They are created mainly for separating the network in to separate broadcast each representing separate functionalities or physical locations within an organization. …show more content…
To know about the operations of access & trunk links, it is desirable to know the login that dictates the type of link and interface used. VLAN logically groups independent LAN stations independent to their physical locations within a bridged LAN infrastructure.
VLAN Trunking protocols (VTP) is a Layer 2 messaging protocol which is used to add, remove or modify VLANs on a Network.VTP provides automatic distribution of definitions from the core switch to the distribution switches. This allowed the customer to define the VLANs once, on the core switch, and have that VLAN definition automatically propagate to all distribution switches on the network. Once the VLAN definition had propagated to the distribution switch, it was then possible to begin assigning ports to the VLAN (Regan, 2004).
VLAN has more benefits, the prime one being: it removes the physical boundary. The only criteria are a careful planning is required during the implementation. VLAN’s cannot forward traffic to another VLAN; so when planning to implement a VLAN, one must be consider the following
VLAN Plan
VLAN stands for Virtual Local Area Network is one of the latest network technologies that have been developed in the past few years. Local Area Network technologies are growing at an extremely fast pace and also the cost of the equipment required for implementing a secure network, has also become very expensive. The need for a cost effective networks but without compromising in network security and performance, paved the way for Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), which can meet the above requirement (Regan, 2004).
VLAN has a great deal of functionality to networks. They are created mainly for separating the network in to separate broadcast each representing separate functionalities or physical locations within an organization. …show more content…
To know about the operations of access & trunk links, it is desirable to know the login that dictates the type of link and interface used. VLAN logically groups independent LAN stations independent to their physical locations within a bridged LAN infrastructure.
VLAN Trunking protocols (VTP) is a Layer 2 messaging protocol which is used to add, remove or modify VLANs on a Network.VTP provides automatic distribution of definitions from the core switch to the distribution switches. This allowed the customer to define the VLANs once, on the core switch, and have that VLAN definition automatically propagate to all distribution switches on the network. Once the VLAN definition had propagated to the distribution switch, it was then possible to begin assigning ports to the VLAN (Regan, 2004).
VLAN has more benefits, the prime one being: it removes the physical boundary. The only criteria are a careful planning is required during the implementation. VLAN’s cannot forward traffic to another VLAN; so when planning to implement a VLAN, one must be consider the following