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Garland Technology's Continued Commitment to Buffalo, New York

May 4, 2017

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It was a great day to be a Western New Yorker, as Garland Technology pledged its commitment to the community when it opened its new office at 199 Delaware Ave. in the heart of downtown Buffalo.

With Mayor Byron Brown, Senator Tim Kennedy and Congressman Sean Ryan all on hand, Garland Technology CEO/Co-Founder Chris Bihary, along with family and friends, cut the ribbon on the recently renovated building.

The new office in downtown Buffalo shows the commitment that Garland Technology has to the WNY community. Garland is committed to growing their technology brand globally by utilizing the local workforce.

Join us for a video recap and tour of the Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony.

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With the new building, Garland is committed to growing its business both domestically and globally. They also have committed to staffing, as the company looks to add additional team members to the current group of sales, marketing and finance staff already on board.

Garland sales and marketing associates go through a rigorous training program of all the Garland Technology products to ensure they can help the customers get the best product fit for them and their networks.

All this ties into the concept of the “new” Buffalo, which Mayor Byron Brown touched on during his speech when he announced that Thursday, April 27, 2017 will now be known as Garland Technology Day in Buffalo. 

“I proudly proclaimed today 'Garland Technology Day' in the City to welcome another new business to downtown Buffalo,” stated Mayor Brown. “I look forward to seeing it grow and succeed in the future.”


I hope you enjoy meeting the team and learning a little bit more about Garland Technology.

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Heartbeats Packets Inside the Bypass TAP

If the inline security tool goes off-line, the TAP will bypass the tool and automatically keep the link flowing. The Bypass TAP does this by sending heartbeat packets to the inline security tool. As long as the inline security tool is on-line, the heartbeat packets will be returned to the TAP, and the link traffic will continue to flow through the inline security tool.

If the heartbeat packets are not returned to the TAP (indicating that the inline security tool has gone off-line), the TAP will automatically 'bypass' the inline security tool and keep the link traffic flowing. The TAP also removes the heartbeat packets before sending the network traffic back onto the critical link.

While the TAP is in bypass mode, it continues to send heartbeat packets out to the inline security tool so that once the tool is back on-line, it will begin returning the heartbeat packets back to the TAP indicating that the tool is ready to go back to work. The TAP will then direct the network traffic back through the inline security tool along with the heartbeat packets placing the tool back inline.

Some of you may have noticed a flaw in the logic behind this solution!  You say, “What if the TAP should fail because it is also in-line? Then the link will also fail!” The TAP would now be considered a point of failure. That is a good catch – but in our blog on Bypass vs. Failsafe, I explained that if a TAP were to fail or lose power, it must provide failsafe protection to the link it is attached to. So our network TAP will go into Failsafe mode keeping the link flowing.

Glossary

  1. Single point of failure: a risk to an IT network if one part of the system brings down a larger part of the entire system.

  2. Heartbeat packet: a soft detection technology that monitors the health of inline appliances. Read the heartbeat packet blog here.

  3. Critical link: the connection between two or more network devices or appliances that if the connection fails then the network is disrupted.

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