The company I work for uses an “AV VLAN” across all 300 of our US office locations.
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every segment of our network is broken up into VLANS with IT personnel having the ability to see and access other VLANS via global policies.
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for example:
our PCs are in a VLAN 10.170-172.x.x with the third octet being specific to one of the 300 sits
AV is in 10.242.x.x with the third octet being specific to one of the 300 sites
Printers, Phones, Cisco VTC, Wireless, etc all having their own VLAN.
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As far as AV is concerned, if an AV device can be on a network, it does, unless its a display. We have no need to have displays visible remotely so there was no point (for us) to waste the resources.
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