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Types of vlans – Allied Telesis AT-S79 User Manual

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AT-S79 Management Software User’s Guide

Section I: Using the Menus Interface

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VLANs can be used to control the flow of data in your network, since the
traffic generated by an end-node in a VLAN is restricted to the other end-
nodes in the same VLAN. In addition, VLANs can prevent data from
flowing to unauthorized end-nodes.

Types of VLANs

The AT-GS950/16 and AT-GS950/24 switches support the following types
of VLANs:

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Port-based VLANs

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Tagged VLANs

The VLANs are described in the following sections.