User's Manual

Tsunami MP.11 2454-R, 5054-R, and 5054-R-LR Installation and Management
Chapter 5. Using the Web Interface 95
Typical User VLAN Configurations
VLANs segment network traffic into groups, which lets you limit broadcast and multicast traffic. These groups
enable hosts from different VLANs to access different resources using the same network infrastructure. Hosts
using the same physical network are limited to those resources available to their workgroup.
The unit can segment users into a maximum of 16 different VLANs per unit, based upon a VLAN ID.
The primary scenarios for using VLAN workgroups are as follows:
VLAN disabled:
Your network does not use VLANs.
VLAN enabled:
Each VLAN workgroup uses a different VLAN ID Tag
A mixture of Tagged and Untagged workgroups