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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2010
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 performing a plurality of monitoring functions on data traffic traversing through a network is provided. The director device arrangement includes a power module, a processor module, a set of network ports, a set of switch modules, and at least one monitoring ports. The set of switch modules is configured to include at least a first switch module and a second switch module that interact with one another to perform the plurality of monitoring functions on the data traffic received. The at least one monitoring port is configured to receive at least one of the data traffic traversing through the network, whereas the data traffic is configured to traverse the director device arrangement between the set of network ports irrespective whether power is provided to the circuitry, the processor module, and the set of switch modules of the director device arrangement.