Patent ID: 7948889

Claim:
A system to analyze network traffic, the system including: a plurality of data switching devices connected to a plurality of data hubs in a fully meshed network configuration where each data switching device of the plurality of data switching devices is connected to every data hub of the plurality of data hubs, each data switching device configurable to analyze data packets for one or more patterns indicating a type and, based on the one or more patterns indicating the type, forward the data packets to an input port of any one of (1) the plurality of data hubs, (2) any subset of the plurality of data hubs, and (3) all data hubs of the plurality of data hubs, each data hub having multiple input ports and multiple output ports, and each data hub configured to broadcast all data packets received at any one of its input ports to every one of its output ports; and one or more network sensors, each network sensor connected to an output port of a single data hub of the plurality of data hubs, and each network sensor configured to analyze the type of data packets.