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Garland Technology Expands EMEA Market with Dedicated Distribution in Spain, Portugal and Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg

October 11, 2016

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Garland Technology, the leading manufacturer of network test access products (TAPs) has announced regional distribution agreements with two new European distributors: INGECOM of Spain and Portugal and C.N. Rood, which services the BeNeLux region of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

“I’m excited about these two new partnerships. They add value to resellers by delivering a turnkey connectivity solution for end users. I will be traveling to INGECOM and C.N. Rood to personally train both teams in October.” says Chris Bihary, CEO/Co-founder of Garland Technology.

In addition to the onsite training for both distributors, Bihary has an aggressive European itinerary to connect with new and existing customers including presenting at It-Infra on October 13, 2016 in the Netherlands on the topic of “Data Center Visibility.” Then onto participation in the first SharkFest Europe, October 17-19, 2016 in the Netherlands, and finally exhibiting for the third year at it-sa in Nuremberg, Germany on October 18-20, 2016.

“This is a unique opportunity to meet with a variety of end users, resellers, distributors and technology partners from all disciplines of IT across Europe., At It-Infra in Belgium I present on the topic of Data Center Visibility, then onto Sharkfest will have a couple of hundred Wireshark users. The last stop is it-sa, the IT Security Expo and Congress in Germany which is my third year exhibiting with our German distributor NEOX Networks.” explains Bihary.

About C.N. Rood
CN_Rood_Logo.pngC.N. Rood provides knowledge and solutions to the educational, scientific and industrial institutes in the Benelux region. Our wide range of solutions varies from communication test-equipment and general test- & measurement-equipment to automatic identification products combined with consultancy, training and turnkey solutions including software development. For more information,visit: http://www.cnrood.com/


About INGECOM:

logo.gifINGECOM, the Spanish networking and IT security solutions Value-Added Distributor, was founded in 1996 in Bilbao. It has offices in Madrid, Bilbao and Lisbon and works around Spain and Portugal. Currently INGECOM has 20 employees. The goal of INGECOM is offering tested and homologated solutions to networking and IT security resellers and being in contact  to new technologies in order to introduce any evolution to end-users quickly.


About Garland Technology

Garland Technology guarantees precise data monitoring capabilities with a full line of network test access points (TAPs) including: network TAPs that support breakout, aggregation, regeneration and bypass modes; packet brokering, load balancing and filtering products; all available in portable, 1U or 2U chassis systems. Garland network TAPs support all networks, including copper wire in 10/100M, 10/100/1000M and fiber in 1G, 10G, 40G, 100G.


Garland’s design and educational-based approach includes a team of network designers to work directly with you and your team to meet your network access and visibility needs and provide you with the best solution for any monitoring or security appliance - allowing you to see every bit, byte and packet®. For more information, visit http://www.garlandtechnology.com. Follow us on Twitter @GarlandTech.

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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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