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6.2 VLAN Applications
6.2.1 Traffic Domain Isolation
VLANs are most often used for their ability to restrict traffic flows between groups of devices.
Unnecessary broadcast traffic can be restricted to the VLAN that requires it. Broadcast storms
in one VLAN need not affect users in other VLANs.
Hosts on one VLAN can be prevented from accidentally or deliberately assuming the IP address
of a host on another VLAN.
By configuration of the management VLAN, a management domain can be established that
restricts the number of users able to modify the configuration of the network.
The use of creative bridge filtering and multiple VLANs can carve seemingly unified IP subnets
into multiple regions policed by different security/access policies.
Multi-VLAN hosts can assign different traffic types to different VLANs.
Figure 115: Multiple overlapping VLANs