Aruba Switching, Technology

5. Spanning-Tree Protocol

Redundancy In the above example on the left, if Core 1 fails then the network is down and client A won’t be able to communicate with client B. In the example on the right, if Core 1 fails the network will say up as Core 2 is available and the Client can communicate through this. While this mitigates a single…

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Aruba Switching

4. VLANS

VLANS VLANs are used to isolate endpoints so you have better control over the traffic Default VLAN is VLAN 1 Devices in the same VLAN can communicate without routing.   Collison Domains On a Layer 1 Hub, only one ethernet host on a particular segment may transmit at a time, otherwise there is a collision. This is controlled by an…

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