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June 5, 2018
Garland Technology Continues Momentum Releasing Five Products to Portfolio
and Six Staffing Appointments
NEW YORK, June 4, 2018 – Garland Technology, a leading provider of network and test access solutions, today announced availability of the industry’s first Optical Multi-Mode 5 (OM5) media type for extended long-range and short-range data center applications and their environments. Improving upon the OM4 that was made standard by the Telecommunications Industry Association, Garland Technology’s OM5 Fiber Test Access Point (TAP) creates an opportunity to provide increased network performance to support longer distances, more ethernet connections, and fiber channel applications. Garland Technology also released five new products to include a Military Grade Industrial TAP, a Virtual TAP, a 100BASE-FX 1G Aggregator TAP and an updated Passive Replication TAP that will empower network and security teams to better address data compliance mandates and increase the speed of identification and resolution of network challenges.
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“We are continually proud to offer the newest and most economical network test access products to enterprises, service providers, and government agencies worldwide, but it’s our almost 10-year record of maintaining zero-fail on all products, that sets us apart,” states, Chris Bihary, Chief Executive Officer, Garland Technology. “It’s critical that we remain vigilant to understanding the challenges network and security teams face, and that we address both R&D and budget, simultaneously.”
SUMMARY AND HIGHLIGHTS OF PRODUCTS:
OM5 Fiber TAP: The first available in the market, providing increased reach and bandwidth for long-range and short-range data center applications and their environments; laser-optimized 50um fiber designed for 10 Gb/s, 40 Gb/s, and 100 Gb/s transmission.
Military Grade Industrial TAP: Upgraded military-grade copper test access point for use in extreme weather environments. The mil-spec connectors ensure reliable performance regardless of the operating environment. The TAP can be ordered as a portable single segment device or as a dual segment in-chassis solution, 100M and 1G options are available.
Garland vTAP: Software-based test access point solution that captures east-west traffic passing between tenant virtual machines, which can then be encapsulated and sent directly to monitoring tools or to network packet brokers in hybrid network architectures. The vTAP is VMware-approved for use with both virtual Standard Switches (vSS) and virtual Distributed Switches (vDS), with an alternate version offered for open stack and kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) deployments.
100BASE-FX 1G Aggregator TAP: Provides line rate 100BASE-FX to 1G copper media conversion for increased compatibility with monitoring tools. The test access point operates in in either breakout, aggregation, or span modes and guarantees zero packet loss regardless of the operating mode.
Passive Replication TAP: Allows multiple tools to access traffic without additional latency, taking one full-duplex input and delivering three copies of the network traffic, also allowing SPAN ports to be copied and sent to multiple locations for processing.
“The world’s largest financial institutions eagerly awaited the ability to deploy extended bandwidth within their data centers to improve upon the efficacy of both localized and cloud-based transactions,” states, Chris Lauzze, Territory Sales Manager, Garland Technology. “As we deliver the industry’s newest, and most sought-after OM5 fiber solution, we are honored to help our financial, service provider, and enterprise customers be best positioned for extended revenue and business opportunity streams.”
To support the new products in their portfolio, Garland Technology announced it has hired six new members to its sales and channel partner development teams in EMEA and North America to include:
Sharjeel Alvi, Regional Director, EMEA, previously with Flowmon and Riverbed
Greg Zemlin, Product Manager, North America, previously with Luxar Tech
Harry Berridge, Director of Federal Operations, previously with Network Critical and Fujitsu
Frank Rubio, Senior Director of Business Development, previously with Riverbed and Raytheon
David Brunner, Territory Sales Manager West, previously with Verizon
Sarah Mowczko Regional Sales Executive Northeast, previously with Ingram Micro
The multiple new products and team additions reflect the ongoing momentum Garland Technology is delivering to is customers worldwide. “Garland Technology remains second-to-none delivering 100% reliability, pricing, and logistics at full scale,” shared, Blake Darche, Chief Security Officer, Area 1 Security. “Garland Technology enables us to maintain 100% reliability in the most extreme of environments to include large-scale security threats from humans, machine, and natural disasters alike, and having complete functionality at our data centers helps our customers stay ahead of looming cyber-attacks.”
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.