Nortel Baystack 450 switches VLAN capable???

[ryrae]

The company I work for has a small PC network(275 people)and a small wireless handheld network that they want to keep segmented via VLAN capabilities. My question is...Do Nortel Baystack 450 switches have the ability to incorporate a VLAN?? We have been told that we need to convert all of the Baystack switches to Cisco switches in order for the wireless VLAN to work correctly....we have 3 Cisco switches currently that we use for our access points, but if we don't need to convert all of the switches we won't...any help/advice is appreciated. Thanks

ryrae A+, MCDST

 

[biv343]

Yes, Baystack 450's support up to 64 port based VLANs, but won't route between them.

 

[ryrae]

We use the handheld devices for inventory purposes so we won't need them to communicate with each other just the main server. So if we can configure the 450s for VLAN they should work??? Thanks for your help!!!!!

 

[Jynxx]

Yes. As Biv stated, 450's can do port-based VLANs (which is what you need here for segmentation) just fine without issue.

They can also do VLAN tagging (802.1q), and most newer Cisco APs are 802.1q capable also, allowing you to put multiple VLANs in the air with different WEP and SSID's.

Not that you NEED to do that, but thought that I would mention.

 

[ryrae]

Thanks for your help everyone!!!!