Business Challenges
• Increased Network Traffic driven by digital transformation, mobility, and new business applications.
• Application Performance due to distributed enterprise, scattered data and flexible workforce.
• Delayed Resolutions due to reduced visibility into critical application/network data, when/where needed.
Business Value
• Business Continuity through proactive, end-to-end network visibility, security and rapid application issue resolution.
• Policy Compliance through application-level control and application/network data recording and playback.
• Robust Security through network forensics and event correlation for before, during and after an alert or event.
Solution Benefits
• Full Network Visibility leaves no blind spots for network investigation or security planning. Network data is monitored in real time and stored for a playback analysis.
• Simple to Deploy: Pre-certified solution makes it easy to deploy and manage in any kind of environment.
• Easily Scalable: Scales programmatically with virtual machines to millions of flows, multi-gigabit capture to-disk rates, and multi-terabyte storage capacity.
Garland EdgeLens Solution
Garland’s EdgeLens series is an advanced bypass TAP with built-in packet broker functionality that centralizes network traffic, making network tools more efficient by sharing network traffic with monitoring and security tools. EdgeLens provides visibility for a hybrid configuration of an active, inline network device and out-of-band tools, such as LiveAction. EdgeLens provides identical network traffic streams through the active inline device and to the capture engine of LiveAction LiveWire or LiveCapture. The benefits of both devices seeing the same traffic are:
• Correlated data for real-time monitoring and root cause analysis using network packets.
• Historical look back and playback of the network traffic.
• Validating and updating network policy changes and spotting anomalies.
• Network data recording for compliance and security forensics.
• Root cause analysis for application and network related problems.
TAP -> TOOL
Network TAP Benefits
- Provide complete packet visibility with full-duplex copies of network traffic.
- Ensure no dropped packets while passing physical errors and support jumbo frames without delay or altering the data.
- Support speeds from 10/100M, 1G, 10G, 40G, 100G, and 400G are available in single-mode and multi-mode fiber or copper ethernet.
- Available in Tap ‘Breakout,’ aggregation, regeneration, bypass, and advanced filtering.
- Passive or failsafe – Does not affect the network.
- No IP address or MAC address, and cannot be hacked.
- Garland EdgeLens Solution
- LiveAction Application
- Full PDF Solution Brief
Garland’s EdgeLens series is an advanced bypass TAP with built-in packet broker functionality that centralizes network traffic, making network tools more efficient by sharing network traffic with monitoring and security tools. EdgeLens provides visibility for a hybrid configuration of an active, inline network device and out-of-band tools, such as LiveAction. EdgeLens provides identical network traffic streams through the active inline device and to the capture engine of LiveAction LiveWire or LiveCapture. The benefits of both devices seeing the same traffic are:
• Correlated data for real-time monitoring and root cause analysis using network packets.
• Historical look back and playback of the network traffic.
• Validating and updating network policy changes and spotting anomalies.
• Network data recording for compliance and security forensics.
• Root cause analysis for application and network related problems.
LiveAction Application/Network Performance Monitoring and Analysis
Data traffic relayed by Garland is put to real use when LiveAction LiveWire and LiveAction LiveNX process it through advanced data analysis algorithms. At the same time, LiveAction tools capture and store critical network flow/packet data for analysis/playback and root cause analysis using LiveAction LiveCapture, LiveAction LiveCapture Virtual and LiveAction LiveWire series appliances. The result is actionable analysis and visualization of key network performance metrics such as worst application/user flows, application latency, TCP quality, unified communication quality, top application, dependency mapping, network utilization and multi-segment analysis. Such analysis enables enterprises to resolve application/network performance issues quickly (operational continuity, higher productivity, better customer experience), perform capacity planning for future growth, and close security loopholes (Traffic profiling).
- How It Works
- Bypass TAP Benefits
- Full PDF Solution Brief
- How It Works
- How It Works
- How It Works
Bypass manages the availability of inline tools, preventing a single point of failure in the network by “bypassing” the device in the event it fails or needs to be updated. Reducing network downtime. Bypass is unique to the other TAP modes, as it is an inline use case not out-of-band.
• Keep up with Federal security mandates
• Expedited problem resolution
• Ability to pilot or deploy need security tools
• No maintenance windows
• Simple configuration ensures a quick set-up
• Zero subscription fees so O&M expenses don’t increase
■SOLUTION EDGESAFETM BYPASS TAP
• Install a Garland Technology Bypass TAP between Cisco Firepower and the network
• Bypass TAP manages the availability of Firepower at any time without having to take down the network
• Bypass TAP continuously checks the health of Firepower with heartbeat packets and the Bypass TAP will bypass Firepower to keep the network up-and-running in the event Firepower becomes unavailable
PROBLEM 1 PORT FAILURE | ||
■WITHOUT TAP • The network |
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■WITH TAP • Uptime • Tool is bypassed while it is being updated |
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■WITHOUT TAP • The network |
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■WITH TAP • Uptime • Tool is bypassed while it is being replaced |