The IEEE 802.1q, often referred to as Dot1q, is the networking standard that supports VLANs on the Ethernet network. The standard defines a method of tagging traffic between two switches to tell which traffic belongs to which VLAN. Keep in mind, there are many implementations of IEEE 8021.q standard, but we tend to talk more about using Cisco switches.

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