Principle: Physical ports of the switch are divided into different VLANs, and devices connected to these ports belong to the corresponding VLAN. Applicable Scenarios: Workshops with fixed device locations and simple network topologies, such as assembly lines and. If your access/distribution switches connect the user vlans to the core using trunks, then you will need to configure the vlans on both the access/distribution and on the core. All access points are on the POE. A VLAN is a broadcast domain that lives inside your switch. Instead of buying five physical switches for five departments, you buy one switch and create five VLANs. " The. VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) technology, by logically dividing the network, isolates traffic from devices in different workshops into independent broadcast domains, becoming a key tool to address this pain point. This emerging technology is mainly used in switches. I have a 48 port switch which currently has a Finance VLAN which is made up of 14 devices, and an Admin VLAN made up of 14 devices which leaves me with 20 spare ports.
