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Garland Technology Celebrates 10 Years with a 4th Appearance on the Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

September 16, 2021

Buffalo, NY, September 16, 2021 – Garland Technology, a leading manufacturer of Network TAPs, Network Packet Brokers, and Inline Bypass Solutions, is proud to announce its fourth appearance on the Inc. 5000 List as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States.

“It’s an honor to receive this recognition multiple times from Inc. 5000. I am humbled by the positive response we’ve received from our customers and partners as we strive to make it easy to do business with Garland Technology,” states Chris Bihary, CEO and Co-Founder. “Making the 2021 List is particularly special because we are celebrating our 10-year anniversary this year. I am proud of the Garland team for creating sustained growth for this company in the IT and OT network space.”

Garland Technology has much to celebrate in 2021 with new partner announcements, a new office in Denver, Colorado to support customers and partners in the Central and Western regions of the United States, and new product launches to help IT and OT networks have reliable and secure packet visibility.

Bihary adds, “There is no time to rest as we gear up for the fourth quarter. We are rolling out a “Grow with Garland” Channel Incentive Program in Europe to help our partners grow their businesses with Garland’s extensive product line. Also, we are launching a new Network Packet Broker with an innovative 13” depth that is perfect for flyaway cyber kits that need to be transported in the overhead bins of commercial airlines to troubleshoot remote networks.”

For full press release, please visit: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/garland-technology-celebrates-10-years-with-a-4th-appearance-on-the-inc-5000-list-of-americas-fastest-growing-private-companies-301377726.html?tc=eml_cleartime

 

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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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