Buffalo, NY (PRWEB) October 29, 2013 -- Garland Technology, a leading provider of network TAP solutions, announces the expansion of its offices overseas to the UK. The new office is located in Thames Valley, near London’s Heathrow airport, and serves as a crucial expansion point for the international entity. Now, with the new expansion, engineers, business developers and other network staff of Garland Technology will have a strong grasp on network security trends and breaches, and will be able to formulate one-on-one relationships with interested partners in Europe and abroad.
“We largely gain business through referrals,” said CEO Chris Bihary. “But now, it’s time for us to begin a more aggressive approach to gain clients. We want to proactively introduce Garland Technology to those who might never have heard of us, and we want to show potential partners how we can help maximize the efficiency of their network tools and, ultimately, strengthen their systems.”
Garland Technology works with resellers and VAR channels to provide complete network security packages and guarantees 100% network access and visibility. Garland’s TAPs work with network appliances in VARs that include NexGen Firewalls, data monitoring, VoIP, IDS, IPS, DLP, and more. Once a partnership is formed, Garland Technology assists with the technical training of support engineers, offers sales training to new staff, and also provides lead sharing and joint presentations to end users.
“I’ve brought on a great team to run the UK office, and a lot them are past colleagues of mine,” said Bihary. “Honestly? We’re ready to hit the ground, running.”
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, Bypass, Aggregation, 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.
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.