SWITCH PORT ANALYZERS

• Main Authors: EDSALL THOMAS JAMES, RASTOGI GAURAV, GHOSH KALYAN K, DUTT DINESH GANAPATHY, CRESSA MATTHEW, KLOTH RAYMOND J
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 23.04.2009
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; MULTIPLEX COMMUNICATION; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

Methods and devices are provided for non-disruptive monitoring of network traffic through one or more ports of a Fibre Channel network device. Preferred embodiments of the invention are used in conjunction with the switched port analyzer ("SPAN") and/or remote SPAN ("RSPAN") feat...