VLAN definition

VLAN means Virtual Local Area Network.
VLAN means a data communication network, configured using the IEEE 802.1q standard that logically interconnects computers and network devices, allowing a group of hosts to communicate, regardless of Location, as if they were attached to the same physical media.
VLAN means virtual LAN.

Examples of VLAN in a sentence

  • Computershare shall disable unnecessary network access points to prevent unauthorized devices from accessing the Customer VLAN.

  • Computershare Personnel may not use PDAs to access devices with the Customer VLAN.

  • Traffic that is generated at Layer 2 on a switched network needs to be managed, or segmented into Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs), Distribution layer switches provides the inter-VLAN routing functions so that one VLAN can communicate with another on the network.

  • Each E-LAN Connection can only be connected to one (1) E-LAN Domain of the same Class of Service and VLAN type/value, at all times.

  • The ATA Voice Service is delivered as a VLAN on the UFB Handover Connection Service located in the POI.


More Definitions of VLAN

VLAN is a Virtual LAN which means a broadcast domain partitioned and isolated in a computer network at the OSI layer-2 as defined by IEEE standard 802.1Q;
VLAN means Virtual Local Area Network. While an actual definition is quite technical, VLAN and Virtual Private Networks (VPN) are ways to use software to create a private communications network. While other broadband circuits may share the same fiber optic and electronics that provide the seller’s lit bandwidth, by using software controls and electronics programming, the traffic for a particular circuit or group of circuits can be made private and virtually as secure as if the network had its own dedicated fiber optic strands and electronics.
VLAN means the Virtual Local Access Network;
VLAN means a logical grouping of end stations within a bridged infrastructure, also known as Virtual LAN.
VLAN means virtual local area network. “VPN” means virtual private network. “VRF” means VPN Routing Forwarding.
VLAN means Virtual Local Area Network. Statement of Work (“SOW”)
VLAN or “Virtual Local Area Network” means a connection of two locations within the Supplier’s Network so as to create therein an Ethernet virtual local area network that enables data transfer between the locations connected by the same virtual network and prevents data transfer between locations that are not part of the same virtual network.