The shared secured utility VLAN 516 is comprised of one or more servers configured to provide various services such as maintenance, reporting, backup,logging or other services, in support of one or more of the access server 510-2, the other level 1 servers 510-3 through 510-x, the application server 512-1, the registry server 512-2 and/or the other level 2 servers 512-3 through 512-y.