Virtual LANs in the 7600 Card
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Figure 12-5
ELAN in a Virtual LAN
Virtual LANs for three
Workgroups
Figure 12-6 shows the physical and virtual view of a network divided into
three vLANs: Marketing, Finance. and Administration. Even though these
workgroups are distributed over different floors, LAN Emulation allows
them to be managed as if the users were in the same physical location.
Each vLAN communicates with its server.
In the physical view of this network, the members of the Marketing and
Finance groups are separated physically, though they are closely related in
terms of the work that they do and how they use the network. The
physical wiring does not reflect these logical relationships.
The virtual view shows how LAN Emulation can be used to create three
virtual workgroups, each of them managed as if its members were linked
locally. The LAN Emulation servers, which may reside in a switch or some
other network device, help find the ATM addresses of desktop devices,
regardless of where they are located.
7600
modules
7600
modules
LEC2
LEC3
LES2
BUS2
Marketing
Marketing
Emulated LAN
Virtual LAN
CELLplex 7000 chassis
CELLplex 7000 chassis
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