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EPS Global and Garland Technology Announce Distribution Agreement

October 31, 2017

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EPS Global_logo.pngNEW YORK AND DUBLIN, Oct. 31, 2017 – Garland Technology, the leader in network access technology solutions, announced today a distribution agreement with EPS Global, a value-added technology distributor of Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) solutions for IT, Consumer and  Retail, BFSI, Government and Defense, Media and Broadcast, Lifesciences, and Utilities industries, globally. Under this new agreement, EPS Global will act as a key distributor in Canada and the United States, making available Garland Technology’s passive fiber network Test Access Points (TAPs) and network packet brokers, enabling a complete end-to-end solution for bare metal SDDC deployments.


Garland Technology manufactures a complete line of network TAPs from passive, listen-only TAPs to active, in-line TAPs to feed security tools, and hybrid bypass TAPs with packet broker functionality, supporting filtering, aggregating and load balancing.

Commenting on the agreement, Chris Curley, vice president, Sales, for the Americas at EPS Global said, “EPS Global has become a leader among tech distributors for the SDDC market and our alignment with Garland Technology will prove valuable as we look to solve our customers’ challenges regarding uptime and network monitoring. We understand the necessity for complete network visibility and security in SDN deployments. Garland Technology’s SDN network TAPs for 10G, 40G and 100G environments provide 100% visibility in real-time, allowing organizations to improve their networks’ performance, security, and effectiveness.”

“Our partnership with EPS Global is critical to provide resellers a reliable visibility foundation for emerging high-speed networks of 10G, 25G, 40G and 100G,” explains Chris Bihary, chief executive officer and/co-founder, Garland Technology. “Our network TAPs ensure all the data feeds the solution, whether it be SDN, security, or network monitoring.”

Garland Technology’s passive fiber optical TAPs and network packet brokers provide a complete end-to-end visibility solution for bare metal SDN deployments and integrate with an open networking system.

About EPS Global
Founded in Ireland in 1999, EPS Global is a leading, privately owned, franchised distributor for specialized IT components used in high speed data and storage networks to accelerate, multiplex, store and manipulate the huge amounts of data generated by online and telecoms activity. EPS Global’s customer base includes Data Centers, Cloud Service Providers, Carriers and Telcos, BFSI, Media & Broadcast, Government, Defense and Utilities in addition to 1,000+ Resellers and System Integrators who work within the big data management market. EPS Global has 28 locations globally, holding stock in its 3 distribution hubs in North America, EMEA and Asia helping to minimize lead times. For more information visit www.epsglobal.com.

About Garland Technology
Since 2000, Garland Technology’s network Test Access Points (TAPs) have empowered global data centers and large enterprise networks to address complex IT challenges and provide 100% network visibility. In 2011, co-founders Chris Bihary, CEO and Jerry Dillard, CTO decided to combine their engineering and sales knowledge and form Garland Technology to provide best-in-class service and products to their customers. For more information visit www.GarlandTechnology.com or via Twitter @GarlandTech.


MEDIA CONTACTS:

Garland Technology
Mark Lennon
mark.lennon@garlandtechnology.com
+1-716-242-8498


EPS Global
Ciara McCarthy
CMcCarthy@epsglobal.com
+353-1-803-8918

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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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