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MIDDLE EAST UNIVERSITY

Amman$-$Jordan

Research topic $1$: VLAN as a switching management and security approach

VLANs $($Virtual LANs$)$ are logical grouping of devices in the same broadcast domain. VLANs are usually configured on switches by placing some interfaces into one broadcast domain and some interfaces into another. Each VLAN acts as a subgroup of the switch ports in an Ethernet LAN.

VLANs can spread across multiple switches, with each VLAN being treated as its own subnet or broadcast domain. This means that frames broadcasted onto the network will be switched only between the ports within the same VLAN.

A VLAN acts like a physical LAN, but it allows hosts to be grouped together in the same broadcast domain even if they are not connected to the same switch.

The main objective of this research is to explain the VLAN and the main benefit it provides. It also covers the main configuration it is needed to construct VLAN

Research Components.

$1-$ Introduction

$2-$ What is VLAN

$3-$ VLAN VS physical LAN

$4-$ Advantages of VLANs

$5-$ VLAN across multiple switches

$6-$ VLAN tag

$7-$ Conclusion

$8-$ Reference