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Garland Technology, today announced a new distribution agreement with Multipoint GROUP, a distributor of IT security solutions, to cover 5 countries in EMEA.
Online PR News – 13-October-2021 – Kefar Saba, NEW YORK – Garland Technology, a leading provider of network test access point (TAP) and packet broker solutions, today announced a new distribution agreement with Multipoint Group, a distributor of IT security solutions, to cover five countries in EMEA including Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates.
Multipoint GROUP is focused on the distribution of IT security products, providing channel partners in the Mediterranean Area with reliable, proven, and supported solutions from industry-leading hardware and software vendors. Earlier this year, Multipoint GROUP announced a strategic alliance with Spanish-based distributor, Ingecom, to create powerful synergies on the commercial and technical levels across the Mediterranean Area.
Ingecom has been marketing Garland Technology’s solutions since 2016 in Spain, and more recently, Portugal and Italy. Now, with the alliance between the two distributors, Garland Technology will be able to increase its reach and develop a more unified channel strategy in the various countries covered.
“Partnering with Multipoint GROUP helps bring Garland’s network TAP and purpose-built packet broker solutions to new markets in the Mediterranean Area. Garland Technology is committed to growing through the channel, and it’s working with partners like Multipoint that we will be able to achieve growth in 2021 and beyond. After many years of working with the Ingecom team I am looking forward to seeing the strategic alliance between these two distributors strengthen our presence in the region, while also providing customers with more complete and comprehensive visibility and security solutions.” - said Chris Bihary, CEO/Co-Founder of Garland Technology.
Ricardo Resnik, Owner and CEO, Multipoint Group: "We are excited about Garland joining our cyber strong distribution portfolio across EMEA, including Israel, Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Malta, and the UAE. Garland will bring organizations unparalleled visibility to everything industry's most reliable, economic, and easy to deploy network TAPs, network packet brokers, and cloud visibility solutions".
ABOUT Multipoint GROUP:
Multipoint GROUP is a leading distributor of Cyber Security and IT Solutions, providing channel partners in the Mediterranean Area and Middle East with reliable solutions backed by the world’s leading hardware and software vendors. The company was founded by Ricardo Resnik in 2009 in Israel. Multipoint GROUP works with over twenty vendors including Thycotic, TeamViewer, Qualys, Tenable, AT&T Security, PRTG, Progress Software, Firemon and Malwarebytes, ExtraHop, SealPath, and Varonis.
For full press release, please visit: https://onlineprnews.com/news/50013789-1634126071-garland-technology-announces-distribution-agreement-with-multipoint-group.html
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.