Networkingexplain

VLAN stands for virtual local area network a VLAN is a local area network where the computers servers and other network devices are logically connected regardless of their physical location so even if these devices are scattered in different places it wouldn't matter because a VLAN can logically group them into separate virtual networks and the purpose of a VLAN is for improved security traffic management and to make a network simpler so as an example let's say you have a three-story office building and in this building you have computers that belong to certain departments that are mixed in with computers that belong to other departments on the same floor so the red computers represents the accounting department the blue computers represent the shipping department and the green computers represent the support department now as you can see all these computers from these different departments are all connected to a switch so they are all on one segment on a local area network or ...