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Garland Technology Continues Its U.S. and Overseas Expansion with Record Sales and Recent New Hires

March 27, 2014

Garland Technology continues its rapid expansion in the U.S. and overseas with recent record sales and new hires. In addition to its internal expansion, CEO and Co-Owner Chris Bihary just attended the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona to network, as well as to learn from and educate others about the growing security concerns of IT data infrastructures and their mobile compatibilities.

Chris at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona 2014Buffalo, NY (PRWEB) March 27, 2014 -- Garland Technology continues its expansion within the U.S. and overseas as it hits record sales, still snowballing from last year and exceeding its sales goals. As part of its increase in sales, as well as its initiative to keep expanding and forming new partnerships overseas, the leading TAP provider just made recent hires for a new West Coast sales representative, as well as hired two engineers for R&D.

“We’re prepared for continual expansion,” said Chris Bihary, CEO/Co-Owner of Garland Technology, “especially as we continue to form new partnerships and continue to network. Even though we’re expanding at a rapid rate, after my attendance at the Mobile World Congress, I came to realize how the IT and mobile industry as a whole are expanding – exponentially. It’s amazing and alarming, I have to say, to see how reliant humans are on computers and data, which is why it’s crucial to protect our information at all costs, be it for the private individual or the Fortune 500 company.”

As a recent attendee of the Mobile World Congress event, Bihary took part in the four-day conference in Barcelona to learn about the latest trends, opportunities, and threats within the mobile industry. Topics included seminars and guest speakers addressing the mobile powered industries, the creation of new apps, the rise of social media, and the reliance of societies on mobile use from around the world. Here, Bihary was able to form new relationships with potential partners, as well as dive even deeper into how mobile phones play a crucial role in the upkeep of a business’ data infrastructure, as well as how they can simultaneously play a security risk.

Garland continues to expand due to the reliability of its product lines, which include network TAPs, including passive fiber and copper TAPs; modular TAPs that include 1U and 2U chassis; aggregating and regenerating TAPs that support jumbo frames and packet injection; filtering aggregating load balancer (FAB) systems, as well as SFP connectors and cables. In addition to working with partners, Garland Technology also works with resellers, which can be found here.

For more information about Garland Technology and its latest partnerships and products, visithttp://www.garlandtechnology.com.

About Garland Technology 
Garland Technology guarantees precise data monitoring capabilities for enterprise networks with no added point of failure. Garland's line of Test Access Points (TAPs) are the foundation to all network monitoring by delivering access to all data for security, network visualization, network performance monitoring, forensics, deep packet capture, data leakage, and compliance.

Garland Technology’s full line of Network, Aggregation, Bypass, and Regenerating TAPs, as well as the Filtering Aggregation Load Balancing (FAB) product line, is the leading Network Access Solution. Garland's Network Access Products are available for 10/100/1000, 1 Gigabit, 10 Gigabit, 40 Gigabit, and 100 Gigabit local and wide area networks.

For more information, visit http://www.garlandtechnology.com.

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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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