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[Video] “May the 4th Be with You” Promotion - A BB-8 Could be Yours

May 3, 2016

[Now the "TAPit to WINit" Giveaway]

A long time ago in a galaxy far,
far away….

The GT-TAP1G droid joined the TAP fleet running data missions in the Garland galaxy. Under steady attacks from the dark side of security hacks and lost packets, GT-TAP1G set out to secure 100% Visibility.

Want to help GT-TAP1G reunite with Rey, Chewy, R2-D2 and find the next fabled Jedi?

Win one of your own with the “TAPit to WIN it” Giveaway!
GT-TAP1G (Sphero BB-8) is fun and entertaining for the office, home or lonely data center. And small enough to sit on your desk and not take up any real estate. As a Star Wars fan and in coordination with our new product launch of the 1G Modular Packet Broker System, we want to bring a little fun to your day.

Both GT-TAP1G and our new 1G Modular Packet Broker System have similar features:

  • Remote Access on both! Sit back and take control of both tools/toys remotely. The 1G Packet Broker has GUI or CLI management. GT-TAP1G is app-controlled.

  • Custom Configuration - The 1G Packet Broker accommodates any network scenerio.
    GT-TAP1G is an adaptive drone, changing its interactions overtime.

  • Scalable - The 1G Packet Broker has hot swappable TAP modules - change configurations as your network demands change. 
    Sphero, the makers of GT-TAP1G plan on adding new features to the app for forever fun and access - oh and it's head comes off.

  • Port Mapping - The 1G Packet Broker features port-to-port filtering - only see the traffic your tools require.
    Well with GT-TAP1G we call that patrolling

  • 100% Visibility - The 1G Packet Broker copies all the live network data, to see every bit, byte and packet®.
    GT-TAP1G projects holograms from its head - canned or custom.

How Can You Win One?

  1. Check out our new 1G Modular Packet Broker System.
  2. Think of how this new system can bring peace to your galaxy, ie. one-stop remote management for ALL of your 1G monitoring and security tools.
  3. At the bottom of ANY product page, schedule a quick 15 minute, no-obligation Design-It session with our network design team or request a quote.

Done. You are automatically entered.

Attend the call with all stakeholders and you are automatically entered into a random drawing to win a GT-TAP1G (Sphero BB-8)*. A new winner will be chosen every month through September (9/30/16).

*GT-TAP1G (Sphero BB-8) only ships within the continental US. For those outside of the US, you will receive an Amazon gift card in the amount of $100 USD. Promotion runs from 5/4/2016 to 9/30/2016, random raffles will be held the last business day of each month: May 31, June 30, July 29, August 31, September 30, 2016. Winners will be notified by email and will be announced via Garland’s social media. Photos and videos of you and GT-TAP1G are encouraged and will be awarded appropriately.

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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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