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Technology Partnership Announced for Garland Technology and Aukua Systems

July 16, 2019

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NEW YORK, July 16, 2019 – Garland Technology, a leading provider of network test access point (TAP) and packet broker solutions, announced a technology partnership with Aukua Systems Inc., an Austin, TX based provider of Ethernet test and monitoring solutions. 


“Aukua’s partnership with Garland technology combines network visibility technology and full monitoring solution for direct analysis of your network application traffic,” said Chis Bihary, CEO/Co-Founder at Garland Technology. “Together with Aukua, we can drive a reliable solution to identify and mitigate network latency issues and highlights our commitment to application performance.” 

 

Confronting complex issues, this strategic partnership between Aukua and Garland Technology deviates from the traditional approach to network monitoring latency. The joint solution addresses the direct role latency has on the delivery of application performance.   

 

“Leveraging a powerful and customizable set of layer 2-7 filters and triggers, we are able to passively deploy with Garland TAP’s and precisely measure one-way latency of live production traffic” said Suds Rajagopal, Co-Founder at Aukua Systems. “Our partnership reduces risk within the entire network infrastructure, providing a solution for optimal network and application performance.”

 

For more information on the Aukua Networks and Garland Technology joint solution, visit: www.garlandtechnology.com/aukua.

 

About Aukua Systems Inc.

 

Aukua Systems Inc. is a leading provider of Ethernet testing and visibility solutions. Whether developing, validating, deploying, supporting or managing applications or networks, our products help improve performance and make networks more secure. The Aukua product line includes packet capture tools, analyzers, traffic generators, and impairment emulators, and all Aukua's solutions are hardware-based, precise and 100% full line rate. Since 2015, equipment manufacturers, large enterprises, service providers, and government agencies worldwide have depended on Aukua to build stronger networks. To learn more, visit www.aukua.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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