3Com 7600 manual Workgroups, Each vLAN communicates with its server

Virtual LANs in the 7600 Card 12-21

Emulated LAN

LES2 BUS2

CELLplex 7000 chassis

LEC2	LEC3
	CELLplex 7000 chassis
	7600
	modules

7600 modules

Marketing	Virtual LAN	Marketing
	Figure 12-5ELAN in a Virtual LAN
Virtual LANs for three	Figure 12-6 shows the physical and virtual view of a network divided into
Workgroups	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.