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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2007
Eldad Matityahu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert Shaw, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Dennis Carpio, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaochun Liu, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Randy Fung, San Jose, CA (US);
Siuman Hui, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eldad Matityahu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert Shaw, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Dennis Carpio, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaochun Liu, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Randy Fung, San Jose, CA (US);
Siuman Hui, San Francisco, CA (US);
Net Optic, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A director device arrangement for enabling a plurality of monitoring functions to be performed on data traffic traversing through a network is provided. The arrangement includes a set of network ports for receiving data traffic and outputting the data traffic. The arrangement further includes a set of switch chips, which is configured to include at least a first switch chip and a second switch chip, which are configured to interact with one another to perform the plurality of monitoring functions on the data traffic received by the set of switch chips. The arrangement yet also includes a set of monitoring ports, which is configured to receive at least one of the data traffic traversing through the network. The data traffic is configured to traverse the director device arrangement irrespective whether the power is provided to the circuitry of the director device arrangement.