OSPF AREAS
Enterprises with large systems may operate with many networks, routers, and host computers. In order to manage this vast array of communications components, it is quite possible that many LSAs must be exchanged between the routers in order to determine how to relay traffic within the autonomous system between the sending computer and the receiving computer.
The network administrator must evaluate how much routing traffic is to be sent between the routers, because this routing traffic can affect the throughput of user data. And we know that a common practice in route advertising and route discovery is to flood the advertisements to all nodes in the routing domain. While measures can be taken to reduce the amount of duplicate traffic ...
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