A(n) __________ port, also known as a monitoring port, is a specially configured connection on a network device that is capable of viewing all of the traffic that moves through the entire device.
The full form of SPAN port is "Switch Port Analyzer", which is used to designed specifically for the interface on a network device, that would be able to monitor all traffic passing across the entire device.
The use of this port will also call the mirror ports, that is a popular way of gathering data traffic for tracking purposes.
It is primarily used to access the bus switch and all interfaces, which is usually accessible from data transmission.
