Data monitoring switch: Difference between revisions

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Data monitoring switches enable organizations to use their monitoring tools more efficiently, to centralize traffic monitoring functions, and to share tools and traffic access between groups. Some of these devices also provide functionality that helps justify tool purchases and simplify deployment and management of the device itself.

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

== Function ==