VLAN Design Considerations
In a flat, bridged network, all broadcast frames and packets generated by any host in the network are sent to and received by all other hosts in the same network. The ambient level of broadcasts generated by the higher-layer protocols in the network, known as broadcast radiation, restricts the total number of nodes that the network can support. In severe cases, the broadcast radiation effects can be such that a workstation spends all of its CPU power on processing broadcasts, and not on any other applications, such as your e-mail, web browser, or Solitaire game.
Designing and implementing VLANs solves some of the scalability problems of large, flat networks by breaking the single broadcast domain into several smaller ...
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