Our speakers from Xylan will present an overview of Switching Lans and VLANs. Their talk is officially entitled "VLANs don't work... Unless...".
What is the problem we are trying to solve?
The emergence of switching into corporate LANs has reintroduced
broadcast issues into the fray. Our speakers will describe the size of the
switching market and its explosive growth, as well as the resulting issues.
What exactly is a VLAN?
This talk will describe what a VLAN is, what an ELAN is, the
differences, and the basic requirements that VLANs should address.
What are the benefits of VLANs?
This talk will also attempt to describe some of the additional benefits that
VLANs can and should provide to the business users, LAN administrators and
Managers.
How do we get there?
A migration strategy to bring users from hierarchical-router centric LANs
to flat, switch-centric VLANs will be discussed.
Xylan Overview:
Headquartered in Calabasas, California, Xylan Corporation is a leading
provider of high-bandwidth switching systems that enhance the performance
of existing local area networks and facilitate migration to next
generation networking technologies such as ATM. Its OmniSwitch and
PizzaSwitch products connect Ethernet, token ring, FDDI, CDDI, Fast
Ethernet, and ATM, at wire speed, with automatic any-to-any translation.
Speakers' Bio:
Debby Goldman has Selling internetworking solutions in New York
for 7 years. Prior to that, she managed an internetworking group for
Manufacturers Hanover and worked as an independent consultant in such
companies as AT&T, Johnson & Johnson, Bell Labs, and DoubleDay
Publishing.
John Garrison is a Systems Engineer for Xylan.
Giveaways:
Xylan will also be giving away copies of "The Switching Book", a recently
published text addressing this topic in depth.
Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!
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