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NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 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 new XtraTAP™: All-In-1 and XtraTAP™: Portable Packer broker. These feature-rich, portable, handheld network TAPs are developed with packet broker capabilities to optimize and improve the performance of monitoring and security solutions.
"IT Teams are looking for ways to improve their network tool performance, whether extending the use of older or lower speed tools, enhancing existing or deploying new ones," states Jerry Dillard, Chief Technical Officer, Garland Technology. "Maximizing these investments are critical. These tools need packet visibility, so we designed the XtraTAP line to allow full flexibility in traffic optimization, while providing the network visibility needed to properly secure and analyze the network."
SUMMARY AND HIGHLIGHTS OF PRODUCT
XtraTAPTM All-In-1 is a 4 port 1G/10G network TAP, purpose-built with fiber network and SFP+ monitoring ports, that provides full duplex packet visibility and supports tap 'breakout,' aggregation, and regeneration/SPAN modes. It also uniquely provides advanced capabilities to filter Layer 2, Layer 3 and Layer 4 and set utilization alerts, including remote management, to avoid traffic oversubscription.
XtraTAPTM Portable Packet Broker is a 1G/10G network TAP, with an industry first 4 port SFP+ portable design, that provides the ultimate flexibility and ease of use for a range of solutions. It provides full duplex visibility and Layer 2-4 filtering, utilization alerts, and remote management as well as the capability to mix and match different media, including various fiber and copper transceivers and fully configure all 4 ports.
Both XtraTAP devices are ideal for troubleshooting and diagnostic travel kits as well as datacenter and remote locations. These TAPs are already in use with rapid deployment teams because of their flexibility to access data in any environment and easily set data filters or change functions to pinpoint specific data. Network teams are using XtraTAPs to filter the data their network and security tools need, reducing the traffic burden on the tool, and being able to utilize 1G tools, without the need to deploy a full packet broker solution.
The continuous release of new products reflects the ongoing momentum Garland Technology is delivering to their customers worldwide.
XtraTAP Resources
XtraTAP™ All-In-1 product information:
https://www.garlandtechnology.com/products/xtratap-all-in-1-network-tap
XtraTAP™ Portable Packet Broker product information:
https://www.garlandtechnology.com/products/xtratap-portable-packet-broker
For full press release, please visit: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/garland-technology-introduces-new-10g-portable-xtratap-putting-packet-broker-functionality-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-301160461.html
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.