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Use Multi-Port Monitor and Data Aggregation Tools

In many cases, you may need to gather data from multiple points within the network. The easiest way to combine and send this data to Application Delivery Analysis is to use Multi-Port Monitor. Multi-Port Monitor lets you aggregate 4x1 Gbps, 8x1 Gbps, or 2x10 Gbps streams of traffic.

You can create logical ports to define whether interfaces are treated as separate streams of traffic or combined into one stream. Multi-Port Monitor offers hardware filtering to remove unnecessary traffic and packet slicing to reduce disk usage.

Data aggregation tools from other vendors let you combine traffic feeds, which you can filter and slice before sending to Application Delivery Analysis or other monitoring applications.