Vlans are logical connections with other similar devices
Placing devices into VLANs have the following characteristics
- Provides segementation of the various groups of devices ont he same switches
- Provide organization that is more managable
- Brodcasts, multicasts and unicasts are isolated in the individual VLAN
- each VLAN will have its own unique range of IP addressing
- Smaller broadcast domains
- Reduced Cost
- Segmentation == good for security Happs
