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Garland Technology, the leading provider of network access technology solutions, has announced a distribution agreement with VCW Security, one of the UK’s leading distributors of IT security solutions. Under this new agreement, VCW Security will act as a key distributor for Garland’s passive fibre network Test Access Points (TAPs) and network packet broker solutions across the UK.
“Partnering with VCW Security is a key part of our international growth strategy and will provide resellers with access to effective tools to help manage the new generation of high speed networks,” commented 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 ensures complete network visibility by delivering a full platform of network access products including passive fibre TAPs, copper TAPs, aggregator and regeneration TAPs, filtering TAPs, bypass TAP, as well as advanced aggregators and network packet broker devices.
Commenting on the agreement, Gareth Morris, Sales Director at VCW Security added: “We are excited about partnering with Garland Technology which provides industry-leading tools that help solve challenges regarding uptime and network monitoring. Garland Technology’s SDN network TAPs for 10G, 40G and 100G environments provide 100% visibility in real-time, allowing organizations to improve network performance, security, and effectiveness.”
Garland’s passive fibre optical TAPs and network packet broker solutions provide end-to-end visibility for bare metal SDN deployments and integrate with open networking systems. The comprehensive range also includes active, in-line TAPs to feed security tools, featuring Garland's hybrid bypass TAPs with packet broker functionality which supports filtering, aggregating and load balancing. Garland's network TAPs enable organizations to see every bit, byte and packet.
About VCW Security
VCW Security specializes in the distribution and marketing of IT security solutions and services to end-user companies via the reseller channel. The company provides a wide range of products and services from leading edge, non-competing vendors that help define the market and ensure higher margins for channel partners, all of which are recognized for the delivery of next generation security management solutions. VCW Security is committed to putting the value back into Value Added Distribution and delivers best value by creating and supporting partner opportunities as well as delivering its own sales and marketing and sales initiatives that provide qualified leads for partners. For further information visit www.vcwsecurity.com
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.