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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1995
Oded Golan, Tel Aviv, IL;
Rina Tivon, Rosh Ha'ain, IL;
Meir Kruk, Ramat Gan, IL;
Gil Lebovich, Tel Aviv, IL;
Zvika Goldenberg, Petach Tikva, IL;
Gilad Pivonya, Moshav Avichail, IL;
Mark Perelman, Netanya, IL;
Yaron Dician, Tel Aviv, IL;
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A switch monitoring system including at least one bus having a plurality of switching ports, wherein a multiplicity of data portions travel over the bus, each of the data portions having at least one destination. The system also includes a plurality of workstations connected to the plurality of switching ports, and a data collection device operative to collect at least one of the data portions from the at least one bus which data portion is being transmitted along the at least one bus to at least one destination including at least one destination other than the data collection device.