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Record Demand for Zero-Failure TAPs Help IT Teams Thwart Cybersecurity Attacks
NEW YORK, January 31, 2018 – Garland Technology, the leader in network access technology solutions, announced today that throughout 2017 the company grew by 63% and increased its distribution and partner reseller programs to over 60. Adding further, the company signed more than 100 new customers, expanding to its portfolio of global leaders in both enterprise and service provider markets, with the Manufacturing base of greatest increase, validating that organizations worldwide are needing to address the rapid influx of third-party, value chain security attacks and must be empowered to have a guaranteed reliability on their networks and visibility into their customers’ formation. Garland Technology also achieved several major milestones including a new corporate website and product updates with expanded enhancements to its FAB Packet Broker System.
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To comment on the success, Chris Bihary, CEO and co-founder, Garland Technology, shares, “It’s been an extraordinary year for revenue, partner, and customer growth and we’ve continued to be recognized as the zero-fail TAP leader based on over two decades of learning from our customers and partners. This continued acceleration validates the importance of guaranteed network reliability in today’s most demanding global IT environments.”
2017 Highlights included the following:
Blake Darche, CEO, Area 1 Security, states, “After utilizing other similar market TAPs, Garland Technology triumphs in highly-volatile environments, and remains second-to-none delivering 100% reliability, pricing, and logistics at full scale.”
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 formed Garland Technology to provide best-in-class service and products to their customers. For more information visit www.GarlandTechnology.com or via Twitter @GarlandTech.
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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.