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A '''Data Monitoring Switch''' is a networking hardware appliance that provides a pool of monitoring tools with access to traffic from a large number of network links. It provides a combination of functionality that may include aggregating monitoring traffic from multiple links, regenerating traffic to multiple tools, pre-filtering traffic to offload tools, and directing traffic according to one-to-one and many-to-many port mappings. Data monitoringMonitoring switchesSwitches enable organizations to use their monitoring tools more efficiently, to centralize traffic monitoring functions, and to share tools and traffic access between groups.

Several other terms have been used to describe this class of device, including data access switch, tool aggregator, net tool optimizer, and distributed filter tap.