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Welcome to Garland Technology

A Foundation of Visibility

Garland’s network access technology has been empowering enterprise networks and data centers since 2000. In 2011, co-founders Chris Bihary, CEO and Jerry Dillard, CTO combined their engineering and sales knowledge and formed Garland Technology to provide best in class service and products to their customers.

Garland Technology has an excellent reputation in the network access community. Our goal of providing a Visibility Foundation is fostered through partnerships and alliances we have built over the past 30 years.

The Garland Technology Mission
Garland is committed to educating all organizations and individuals on the benefits of having a strong foundation of network visibility and access. By providing this insight we protect the security of data across your network and beyond. 

The Garland Difference

What makes Garland different? We have a lot of things to be proud of from a great team, cutting edge engineering and our educational approch to the industry. But did you know Garland:

  • 100% network test access points (TAP) focused company
  • Made, supported, and serviced in the USA (Texas & New York)
  • All TAPs are tested with live network data and validated
  • Supports the entire wire: from 10/100M copper and 1G/10G/40G/100G
  • 30 years experience in R&D, manufacturing, network support and service
  • Lowest failure rate in the industry; to date no failures in field and 0% first time pass rate (FTPR)
  • Personal, hands on customer support

Network TAPs 101

The Networking User Guide

Providing unfettered access to all of the bits, bytes and packets flowing through a network is a critical piece of network design. Without it, security appliances, monitoring devices and analytical solutions cannot function optimally – a critical issue in a world where downtime or a security breach could cost millions. Want to dig deeper on the basics? Start here.

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eBook Network TAPs 101

Which Network TAP is right for you?

 

Passive Fiber Network TAPs

Passive Fiber
Network TAPs

For Network Monitoring

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Copper Network TAPs

Copper
Network TAPs

For Network Monitoring

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Aggregator Network TAPs

Aggregator
Network TAPs

For Network Monitoring

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Filtering Network TAPs

Filtering
Network TAPs

For Network Monitoring

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Bypass Network TAPs

Bypass
Network TAPs

Failsafe for Inline Security Tools

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