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November 5, 2020
Leipzig, Germany/Buffalo, USA - Nov 5 2020 - Allegro Packets, the leading specialist and provider of devices for network analysis and troubleshooting, and Garland Technology, a leading provider of network test access point (TAP), packet broker, and cloud visibility, today announced a partnership to provide a high performing valuation for speeds up to 100G of network traffic.
The solution’s flexible integration helps improve the productivity of IT infrastructures. Whether needed for portable forensic analysis or leveraging full inline and out-of-band traffic monitoring, the cost-efficient and powerful network analysis measures across a long range of time and information.
“When information systems are inundated with information, packet loss and performance bottlenecks are inevitable,” says Chris Bihary, CEO and co-founder of Garland Technology. “Our solution with Allegro Packets beneficially transforms the security infrastructure for IT teams. With a few clicks, teams can detect network issues quickly and identify performance bottlenecks.”
Allegro Packets troubleshooting devices and Garland Technology’s visibility products provide market-leading forensic analysis, examining 100% of the packet-level data that travels across the network. The highly efficient solution ensures optimal network productivity and performance, analyzing faults and peak loads, without compromising quality.
“We are excited to continue working with Garland Technology to provide customers with that critical packet-level traffic insight required for network administrators to collect comprehensive network analysis,” says Klaus Degner, co-founder and Managing Director of Allegro Packets “We find great value in Garland’s zero-loss packet processing. Together, we are providing that deep analysis required for security teams in real-time immediately after install.
For more information about the security and IT operations team benefits of the Allegro Packet and Garland Solution brief, please visit garlandtechnology.com/allegro-packets
With the Allegro Network Multimeters, Allegro Packets is today one of the leading global providers of network analysis and monitoring solutions. Its customers include many organizations across a wide range of market sectors. The aim of the company is to deliver smart, affordable, and high-performance appliances to help simplify and speed up network analysis and troubleshooting. Find out more via info@allegro-packets.com
For the full press release, please visit: https://pressat.co.uk/releases/allegro-packets-and-garland-technology-partner-for-optimal-network-productivity-and-performance-91aa99401aa0fff541348b8091840bcd/
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.
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.
Heartbeat packet: a soft detection technology that monitors the health of inline appliances. Read the heartbeat packet blog here.
Critical link: the connection between two or more network devices or appliances that if the connection fails then the network is disrupted.