A Broadcast domain is a logical group of computers in a local network, which is characterised by the fact that a Broadcast reaches all domain participants.

A local network on the second layer of the OSI model (link layer) consists by its stroke, Switches and/or Bridges of a Broadcast domain. Only by the partitioning in VLANs or by the employment of routing, which work on layer 3, the Broadcast domain is divided.

A Broadcast domain consists of one or more collision domains.

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• Broadcast Domain (Linktionary term)
  Description of Broadcast Domain from Tom Sheldon's Encyclopedia of Networking and Telecommunications.


• Broadcast domain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  A broadcast domain is a logical area in a computer network where any computer ... Collision domain. This computer network-related article is a stub. ...


• Broadcast versus collision domains
  The final issue we want to talk about is broadcast domain. ... In this context that we are talking about, a domain, a broadcast domain is the region that a ...


• Collision domain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  A collision domain can be a single segment of Ethernet cable in shared-media Ethernet, or a single Ethernet hub in twisted-pair Ethernet, or even a whole ...