(This is an attempt to explain, to a non-technical audience, why a large network, such as the Brandeis network, should be divided into subnets. It comes from this bboard thread.)

The reasons why one wouldn’t want to have the entire campus be one huge subnet are technical, but I’ll try to explain them. Think of the Brandeis network as a huge party. It’s a tremendous party, with every student, faculty-member, and staff-member in one huge room. The university is sponsoring it to celebrate the grand opening of the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Supremely Massive Empty Room.

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