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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
May. 21, 2009
Jeffrey V Merkey, Lindon, UT (US);
Bryan W Sparks, Lindon, UT (US);
Jeffrey V Merkey, Lindon, UT (US);
Bryan W Sparks, Lindon, UT (US);
Solera Networks, South Jordan, UT (US);
Abstract
This is invention comprises a method and apparatus for Infinite Network Packet Capture System (INPCS). The INPCS is a high performance data capture recorder capable of capturing and archiving all network traffic present on a single network or multiple networks. This device can be attached to Ethernet networks via copper or SX fiber via either a SPAN port () router configuration or via an optical splitter (). By this method, multiple sources or network traffic including gigabit Ethernet switches () may provide parallelized data feeds to the capture appliance (), effectively increasing collective data capture capacity. Multiple captured streams are merged into a consolidated time indexed capture stream to support asymmetrically routed network traffic as well as other merged streams for external consumption.