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Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2023

Filed:

May. 25, 2021
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Smita Rai, Mountain View, CA (US);

Ajay Modi, San Jose, CA (US);

Krishna Doddapaneni, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Kit Chiu Chu, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04L 43/0852 (2022.01); H04L 43/062 (2022.01); H04L 43/026 (2022.01); H04L 43/18 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/0852 (2013.01); H04L 43/026 (2013.01); H04L 43/062 (2013.01); H04L 43/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a method for continuous in-line monitoring of data-centric traffic to guarantee application performance. The method includes, in each switch of a plurality of switches in a network fabric, grouping all packets entering each respective switch of the plurality of switches based on either 5-tuple applications or EPG based applications, collecting performance statistics at every hop in the network fabric across all flows in-line in a flow table maintained in each respective switch and periodically exporting the performance statistics to analysis module.


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