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Recent Success Lands Garland Technology on Inc. 5000’s Most Successful Companies in America

August 15, 2019

Buffalo, NY, August 14 - Garland Technology, a leading provider of network test access point (TAP) and packet broker solutions, was positioned at 1,568 on the 2019 Inc. 5000 list of most successful companies in America. This honor focuses on the past three years of growth with an unprecedented 264% revenue growth. 

 

“We have been at the forefront of meeting the swift increase in demand for 100% network visibility and security,” says Chris Bihary, CEO and Co-Founder of Garland Technology. “Our tremendous growth was due to our strategic, laser focus on product innovation and customer solution.” 

 

With a 20% growth in Garland Technology’s global footprint, the company has increasingly reinforced their international relationships with technology partners, channel partners, and dedicated in-region employees. Garland Technology fortified a product roadmap that delivers solutions across multiple network landscapes with the 2019 release of the PacketMAX™: 100G 64 port Advanced Aggregator, the PacketMAX™: 10G Advanced Features, and most recently the EdgeLens® Inline Security Packet Broker, continuing to create physical connections from security and monitoring tools to live data.  

 

To qualify for the 2019 Inc. 5000, companies are ranked according to a percentage of revenue growth from 2015 to 2018. The list criteria include companies that must be founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2015, and be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent as of December 31, 2018. The minimum revenue required for 2015 is $100,000; the minimum for 2018 is $2 million.

 

“We are honored to be named in the list of fastest-growing companies, which is a testament to the increasing importance of network visibility and security,” added Erica Tank, President of Garland Technology. “By providing companies with Network TAP and Packet Broker solutions, we are able to enable security and monitoring tools with the live network data that is needed to perform their job.”

 

For full press release, please visit:  https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/recent-success-lands-garland-technology-on-inc-5000s-most-successful-companies-in-america-300902151.html

 

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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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