Portable Network Monitor Using ARM Processor

The ever increasing demands for energy and cost reduction of networking devices and servers is driving the scientific and industrial communities to take in deeper considerations over the hardware and software techniques deployed in making these accessories. The best approach is to have parallel simultaneous development of the software and hardware as well rather opting for development of any one of the aspect from software or hardware of a system. For having reduced cost but same hardware effect over a system, the upcoming smart processors like ARM can handle well amount of loads and the software part needs to be fabricated in the manner to support such System-On-Board (SOB) mechanisms. This paper defines a scope for developing a network monitor which is established over traditional computers on just a credit card sized small computer. Basic idea is to replace general systems with dedicated systems for achieving power consumption and cost reduction goals.