what are the advantages and disadvantages of Vlan?

Answer Posted / premanand prasad panigrahy

Advantages
*Higher performance and reduced latency.
*users may work on sensitive information which should not be seen by other users.
*VLAN Removes the physical boundary

Disadvantages
*Management is complex
*Possible problems in interoperability
*A VLAN cannot forward traffic to another VLAN(need a router to communicate between VLANs)

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