Buffalo, NY August 17, 2015 --Garland Technology placed 1338 out of 5000 for its first-time listing in the Inc. 5000 list since the company’s inception in 2011. Headquartered in Buffalo, New York the company has experienced a 310% 3-year financial growth and has created 25 jobs worldwide.
“This is an honor and a positive nod from IT professionals that we are providing them tools they need for network visibility.” explains Chris Bihary, CEO/Co-Founder of Garland Technology. “Every organization needs to fortify their network’s monitoring and security systems. My company’s network TAPs and packet brokers are the physical connection between these tools and the live network data. Garland’s devices are state-of-the-art, made in the USA and deliver to the IT community exactly what they need: 100% network visibility."
Founded in 2011, Chris Bihary, CEO and Jerry Dillard, CTO, co-founders of Garland Technology came together to offer the IT community a network visibility solution that could be 100% reliable to feed the ever expanding network monitoring and security appliances organizations are adding to the IT infrastructure. These appliances are only as good as the data they receive and with increasing cyber attacks, 100% visibility is required. Both Bihary and Dillard designed and manufactured a full line of network access hardware from simple plug and play portable network TAPs to highly configurable filtering, aggregating, and load balancing products.
“We are planning for aggressive growth in 2016, both domestically and worldwide.” continues Bihary, “Our new 40G Bi-Directional Bypass TAP is cutting edge technology that the Cisco community requested and we delivered. We are also seeing many network upgrades from 1G to 10G and 10G to 40G, with the larger data centers, there are even some 40G to 100G projects in the works. All of these big data networks require our 100% network visibility solution.”
Bihary concluded, “It’s gratifying to all of us at Garland Technology to see our growth strategies recognized. Our goal is to continue to climb the list, while always providing our customers the network access devices they need to see every bit, byte, and packet.”
About Garland Technology
Garland Technology manufacturers US-made network access hardware which provides the physical connection between the live network and the security and monitoring tools IT professionals rely on. Garland technology offers a full line of network access products including, network TAPs that support aggregation, regeneration, bypass and breakout modes; and packet brokering products. 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.