DEDICATED SERVER    
    

VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network)

At Tollon your security is important to us and this is why all customers have there own dedicated Virtual LAN (local area network). If you need another VLAN to host a special project or to host a server for a customer? No problem!

With your own Virtual LAN

• No other server outside of your VLan can see your servers 
• Your servers are able to communicate freely 
• No bandwidth charges apply for communication between your servers 
• We also update RIPE with your IP allocation
  

Advantages include:

Increased performance

VLANs increase performance by grouping users into logical networks and limiting broadcast traffic to users performing similar functions or within individual workgroups. As less traffic is needed to be routed the latency added by routers is reduced. Switched networks by nature increase performance over shared media devices, primarily by reducing the size of collision domains.

Physical topology independence

VLANs provide independence from the physical topology of the network by allowing physically diverse workgroups to be logically connected within a single broadcast domain.

Increased security options

VLANs have the ability to provide additional security not available in a shared media network environment. By nature, a switched network delivers frames only to the intended recipients, and broadcast frames only to other members of the VLAN. This allows the network administrator to segment users requiring access to sensitive information into separate VLANs from the rest of the general user community regardless of physical location. In addition, monitoring of a port with a traffic analyzer will only view the traffic associated with that particular port, making discreet monitoring of network traffic more difficult.