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Garland Technology Joining NEOX NETWORKS at Mobile World Congress in February

February 7, 2014

Garland Technology CEO Chris Bihary will be attending Mobile World Congress in Barcelona February 24-27. Garland Technology and distributor NEOX NETWORKS focus on mobility and telecommunications in EMEA.

2014_GSMA_logoBuffalo, NY (PRWEB) February 07, 2014 -- Garland Technology, USA based network hardware manufacturer, will join NEOX NETWORKS at the Mobile World Congress this February. The conference program explores the trends and future of the mobile aspects of the telecom industry.

Chris Bihary, CEO at Garland Technology, expressed his excitement about the conference. “Our products are a solution for many telecommunications enterprises,” he said. “We help them achieve better access to their data, getting a clearer picture as they monitor their networks and giving them greater value from their network appliances.”

Garland Technology’s network TAPs are becoming an industry standard for mobile telecom agencies. They currently have products installed in telecom enterprise networks in the US, Canada, Mexico, and several Asian Pacific countries.

“We have the experience with mobile telecom companies that our clients want,” Bihary said. “The reason we go to these conferences is to stay ahead of the curve, to better serve those clients as mobile trends change and network needs evolve.”

Network TAPs, Aggregation, and Filtering solutions provide an integral benefit to telecommunications companies. For instance, several mobility customers have standardized on Garland’s high density fiber TAP products to meet the growing demand to monitor 1Gigabit, 10Gigabit, 40Gigabit, and 100Gigabit fiber links. In order to get 100% visibility and access for your network monitoring solutions, companies are finding it is best to start with a foundation of network TAP technology. Bihary noted: “This is how our customers are building access for their network monitoring tools as well as network packet broker solutions.”

Learn more about Garland’s presence at upcoming conferences like Mobile World Congress on the Garland Technology blog.

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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