One of the switches is the ability to provide a Virtual LAN ( VLAN ) . It begins with the need for port grouping by function or business needs . Thus the need for a port belonging Engineering , Accounting belonging to another .The reason was that due to flooding . Switch will forward broatcast to all ports . However, by using a VLAN , port group so that we can broadcast from a port in VLAN 1 is only sent to the ports in the VLAN .
