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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2017
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
D. Brice Achkir, Livermoore, CA (US);
Andy Yu, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Natalia Bondarenko, San Jose, CA (US);
John Michael Wincn, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/50 (2013.01); G06F 11/3452 (2013.01); H04L 43/022 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a connector for directly connecting the apparatus to a host when the apparatus is received at a host interface configured for receiving a pluggable transceiver, a sampler module configured for under-sampling a periodic waveform transmitted from the host, and an interface for transmitting sampled data to a processing device operable to process and analyze the sampled data for use in determining if the host is operating within specified limits.