Installation guide

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A more efficient approach to combine multiple VLAN in a port to allow connect more
switches spreading the network. A VLAN trunk consolidates the traffic of multiple
VLANs across a single physical port, as shown in Figure 5-2.
Figure 5-2. VLAN trunk
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• Security
VLANs is a communication control. Once a user is assigned to a VLAN, the user only
can communicate with the same VLAN group members.
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Administrative Control for Flexibility and scalability
Typically, subnets are defined by their physical location. Users have the same subnet in
the same area. But VALNs allow each port on a router defines a different subnet. This
results that users in the same departments but in different physical locations get the same
subnet IP address.
• Broadcast control for Performance Improvement