A network technician is asked to redesign an Ethernet network before new monitoring software is added to each host on the network. The new software will broadcast statistics from each host to a monitoring host for each of the five departments in the company. The added network traffic is a concern of management that must be addressed. Which of the following solutions should the technician design into the new network?
A. Place each department in a separate VLAN
B. Add a router and create a segment for all the monitoring host stations
C. Increase the number of switches on the network to reduce broadcasts
D. Increase the collision domain to compensate for the added broadcasts