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7 Switching Domains

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Switching Domains
Collision Domains
Switches eliminate collision domains and
reduce congestion.
• When there is full duplex on the link the
collision domains are eliminated.
• When there is one or more devices in
half-duplex there will now be a collision
domain.
• There will now be contention for the
bandwidth.
• Collisions are now possible.
• Most devices, including Cisco and
Microsoft use auto-negotiation as the
default setting for duplex and speed.
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Switching Domains
Broadcast Domains
• A broadcast domain extends across all Layer 1
or Layer 2 devices on a LAN.
• Only a layer 3 device (router) will break the
broadcast domain, also called a MAC
broadcast domain.
• The broadcast domain consists of all devices
on the LAN that receive the broadcast traffic.
• When the layer 2 switch receives the broadcast
it will flood it out all interfaces except for the
ingress interface.
• Too many broadcasts may cause congestion
and poor network performance.
• Increasing devices at Layer 1 or layer 2 will
cause the broadcast domain to expand.
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Switching Domains
Alleviated Network Congestion
Switches use the MAC address table and full-duplex to eliminate collisions and avoid
congestion.
Features of the switch that alleviate congestion are as follows:

Protocol Function
Fast Port Speeds Depending on the model, switches may have up to 100Gbps port speeds.
Fast Internal Switching This uses fast internal bus or shared memory to improve performance.
Large Frame Buffers This allows for temporary storage while processing large quantities of
frames.
High Port Density This provides many ports for devices to be connected to LAN with less cost.
This also provides for more local traffic with less congestion.

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