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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2013
Applicant:
Centurylink Intellectual Property Llc, Denver, CO (US);
Inventor:
John T. Pugaczewski, Hugo, MN (US);
Assignee:
CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC, Denver, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/723 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/50 (2013.01); H04L 12/46 (2013.01); H04L 45/50 (2013.01); H04L 43/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
Novel tools and techniques that enable remote network monitoring, and in particular cases, remote monitoring of traffic on a L2VPN. In a particular aspect, tools enable a vendor-independent remote monitoring capability by allowing a port on to be spanned (mirrored) to a virtual local area network attachment circuit at two different provider edge devices. Such embodiments can allow test equipment located at one provider edge device to perform monitoring at another provider edge device without regard to conflicting monitoring protocols, interfaces, and/or the like.