VEHICLE NETWORK

A vehicle network comprising a processor; a network switch having a plurality of physical ports, from which two or more of the physical ports are configured as access ports and at least one of the physical ports is configured as a trunk port; a plurality of sensors connected to respective access ports of the network switch, wherein the sensors have preconfigured network addresses; and at least two virtual networks, wherein each virtual network corresponds to a group of access ports, and the sensors connected thereto are addressable within the virtual network by their preconfigured network addresses, wherein each network switch is connected via the trunk port to the processor, and the trunk port is configured to accept communications from the processor directed to the sensors connected to the access ports of the network switch.