Jerry Dillard
Jerry Dillard, CTO and Co-founder of Garland Technology, leverages over two decades in design and engineering to ensure maximum performance within today’s network environments. Dillard, the inventor of the Bypass TAP, continues to innovate network visibility solutions worldwide.
MTP® Brand Connectors versus Generic MPO in Fiber Networks
Generic MPO connectors have been the standard for network architects who require density and strive for shorter install times, as well as simplified cabling infrastructure for their 40G/100G data centers. Multi-mode MPO connectors can pack...
How to Choose the Right Cables for Your Industrial Ethernet
It’s easy to get ahead of ourselves when we talk about the Industrial Ethernet. You look at the ever-growing reality of the Industrial Internet of Things and the longstanding concerns for security in these networks and you start to take...
The 101 Series: Bypass Network TAPs Keepers of the Critical Link
There are some great network tools on the market that provide protection for your organization's operations on the Internet. The problem with using them is that they can do the unthinkable by introducing a potential “point of failure” when...
The 101 Series: Why Do We Need an Aggregating Network TAP?
If you remember in my post on Breakout TAPs, there was a small problem when your network analyzer or monitoring device only had one network interface card (NIC). You could only look at the traffic going from ports A to B or the traffic...
The 101 Series: A Primer On Network TAPs
When the subject of Network TAPs (Test Access Points or Traffic Access Point) are brought up, the image that may come to people’s mind is a device that 'taps into the network' to provide packet visibility by sending copies of traffic to an...
Industrial Ethernet Basics—What the Convergence of IT and OT Really Means
In previous blogs about the Industrial Ethernet, we’ve touched on the growing internet connectivity of traditionally offline systems and what that has meant for security. For some, the context of Industrial Ethernet security concerns can...