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Garland Technology Announces Distribution Agreement with INGECOM in Spain and Portugal

October 7, 2016

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Garland Technology, the leading manufacturer of network test access points (TAPs) hasINGECOM_Logo.png announced a new regional distribution agreement with INGECOM, the networking and IT security solutions Value-Added Distributor of Spain and Portugal.

Garland Technology network TAPs are a purpose-built hardware device that provides physical access and visibility into your network - allowing you to see every bit, byte and packet®.

"The alignment with Ingecom as Garland Technology's distributor for Spain and Portugal will add value to resellers by delivering a turnkey connectivity solution for end users. The Ingecom and Garland Technology distribution partnership is ideal, as Garland's network TAPs are an approved solution for the majority of our shared technology partners”, said Chris Bihary, CEO/Co-founder of Garland Technology. "I will be personally training the Ingecom team on the technical features of our network TAPs and network packet brokers to ensure Ingecom's outstanding reputation of a "trusted security advisor and a real added value”, Bihary added.

Javier Modubar of INGECOM.jpgAccording to Javier Modúbar, General Manager at Ingecom, “We are pleased Garland Technology has trusted in Ingecom to distribute their solution in Iberia. With this manufacturer we cover the need in many security projects which complex corporate networks needs to divide traffic for analysis with security tools. Garland's TAPs allow gathering of traffic in real time that is shared with the security and monitoring tools. Garland TAPs fit well in our current portfolio.”

Currently the INGECOM portfolio is composed by Intel Security, Array Networks, PineApp, ForeScout, F-Secure, SealPath, AlgoSec, Allot Communications, A10 Networks, Forcepoint, Bitdefender, Rapid7, AlienVault, MobileIron, Flowmon Networks and Garland Technology.

About Garland Technology

Garland Technology guarantees precise data monitoring capabilities with a full line of network access points (TAPs) including: network TAPs that support breakout, aggregation, filtering, regeneration and bypass modes; packet brokering and load balancing; all available in portable or 1U or 2U modular chassis systems. Garland network TAPs support all networks, including copper wire in 10/100M, 10/100/1000M and fiber in 1G, 10G, 40G, 100G. Garland’s network TAPs avoid introducing additional software that could be a point of failure to your network.

Garland’s design and educational-based approach includes a team of network designers to work directly with you and your team to meet your network access and visibility needs and provide you with the best solution for any monitoring or security appliance - allowing you to see every bit, byte and packet®.

INGECOM

INGECOM, the Spanish networking and IT security solutions Value-Added Distributor, was founded in 1996 in Bilbao. It has offices in Madrid, Bilbao and Lisbon and works around Spain and Portugal. Currently INGECOM has 20 employees. The goal of INGECOM is offering tested and homologated solutions to networking and IT security resellers and being in contact to new technologies in order to introduce any evolution to end-users quickly.

Currently the most important services in a company are control, monitoring and security. That the reason why INGECOM is constantly looking for new technologies to add and build a global solution.

INGECOM’s portfolio include manufacturers like Intel Security, Array Networks, Cybonet (PineApp), ForeScout, F-Secure, SealPath, AlgoSec, Allot Communications, A10 Networks,  Forcepoint, Bitdefender, Rapid7, AlienVault, MobileIron, Flowmon Networks and Garland Technology through more than 170 resellers.

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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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