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Garland Technology Announces New EdgeLens® Series of Innovative Inline Bypass TAPs

July 28, 2020

NEW YORK, July 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Garland Technology, a leading provider of network test access point (TAP), packet broker and cloud visibility solutions, today announced the release of the EdgeLens® and EdgeLens FocusTM Inline Security Packet Brokers. Developed to manage inline security tools, the EdgeLens is set to revolutionize the way modern networks secure the network's edge.

"The network edge is becoming increasingly complex with critical inline security appliances. Managing these devices, while maintaining network uptime, is a constant challenge for IT teams," states Jerry Dillard, Chief Technical Officer, Garland Technology. "Garland solves this with the new EdgeLens series, allowing you to now manage multiple inline and out-of-band tools, while providing the reliability of a bypass TAP and the functionality of a packer broker in a single device."

SUMMARY AND HIGHLIGHTS OF PRODUCT

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EdgeLens® Inline Security Packet Broker — is a bypass TAP, network packet broker hybrid, purpose-built to provide the ultimate failsafe traffic management device to future proof your network. The EdgeLens is a high density 1U appliance with four 1G/10G bypass TAPs, 32 1G/10G and four 40G monitoring ports.

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EdgeLens FocusTM Inline Security Packet Broker — The EdgeLens Focus is a smaller ½ rack appliance with one 1G/10G bypass TAP and ten 1G/10G monitoring ports. This bypass TAP, network packet broker hybrid, is purpose-built to provide failsafe traffic management, and designed to bring enterprise functionality to remote locations.

Both EdgeLens and EdgeLens Focus provide Garland Technology's full bypass and failsafe technology, as well as packet broker features like advanced filtering, aggregation and load balancing. Applications include first-to-market hardware base tool chaining, High Availability (HA) redundancy, policy verification, "Historical Look Back" forensics, "Before and after optimization & validation," speed translation and more. 

The EdgeLens allows you to eliminate single points of failure, reduce network downtime, cut deployment time, without compromising the network. Complete lifecycle management of inline tools like Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Web Application Firewalls (WAF) is possible with the EdgeLens, while sending traffic to out-of-band network monitoring and analyzer tools from the same appliance.

"Designed to simplify modern security stacks, the EdgeLens is the industry's most advanced device purpose-built for the network edge," states Chris Bihary, Chief Executive Officer, Garland Technology. "The EdgeLens Focus now brings cost effective bypass and advanced features to remote locations."

The continuous release of new products reflects the ongoing momentum Garland Technology is delivering to their customers worldwide. Garland Technology now delivers enterprise data center level functionality for the edge, with the first integrated bypass TAP family that can handle your entire security stack - from remote sites, data center and enterprise, and from 1G to 100G.

For full press release, please visit: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/garland-technology-announces-new-edgelens-series-of-innovative-inline-bypass-taps-301100517.html

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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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