Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Simplified Administration
Adding, changing, moving user accounts no new
reconfiguration of hubs/routers necessary
Benefits
Reduce Costs
VLANs can be used to create broadcast domains which can
eliminate cost of expensive routers
Security
Keep information restricted to only users who need access
Can control boadcast domains, set up firewalls and more
VLAN Drawbacks
Drawbacks
Costs
Purchasing additional hardware
May need to hire new employee to manage
Misc.
New users may encounter new problems they are not familiar
with
If users are located on different floors of a building common
resources (such as a printer) could be in inconvenient locations