Garland Technology (Data-Diode Taps)
Story
Garland Technology was founded to meet the increasing demand for dependable and cost-effective network visibility solutions. With a focus on maintaining high standards of quality and reliability, the company has developed a robust portfolio of products that provide full packet visibility, helping organizations improve their security and monitoring capabilities.
Solutions and Offerings
1. Network TAPs (Test Access Points)
- Description: Devices that create an exact copy of all network traffic, providing complete visibility without impacting network performance.
- Products:
- Breakout TAPs: Passive fiber TAPs and copper TAPs for various network speeds, including 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G, 100G, and 400G.
- Aggregator TAPs: Combine multiple network links into a single output, simplifying monitoring.
- Regeneration TAPs: Duplicate traffic to multiple monitoring tools simultaneously.
- Virtual TAPs: Provide visibility into virtualized environments.
- Features:
- Non-intrusive access to network traffic.
- Support for various media types and network speeds.
- High reliability with no single point of failure.
- Scalability to accommodate network growth.
- Easy integration with existing monitoring and security tools.
2. Network Packet Brokers (NPBs)
- Description: Devices that aggregate, filter, and distribute network traffic to monitoring and security tools, optimizing their performance.
- Products:
- PacketMAX: Advanced Aggregators: Aggregate and load balance traffic across multiple tools.
- PacketMAX: Advanced Features: Offer functionalities like time stamping and packet slicing.
- XtraTAP: TAP Packet Brokers: Combine TAP and packet broker capabilities in a single device.
- Features:
- Advanced filtering to ensure tools receive relevant traffic.
- Load balancing to distribute traffic evenly across multiple tools.
- Scalability to support increasing network demands.
- Enhanced tool efficiency by offloading processing tasks.
- Cost-effective solutions without compromising performance.
3. Inline Bypass Solutions
- Description: Ensure network uptime and reliability by managing accessibility and resiliency for inline security tools like firewalls and intrusion prevention systems (IPS).
- Products:
- EdgeSafe: Bypass TAPs: Provide failsafe access for inline tools, ensuring continuous network availability.
- EdgeLens: Inline Security Packet Broker: Combines bypass TAP and packet broker functionalities for inline deployments.
- Features:
- Automatic failover to maintain network connectivity during tool failures.
- Support for high availability (HA) configurations.
- Simplified deployment and management of inline security tools.
- Enhanced network resilience and reduced downtime.
- Scalability to accommodate additional security tools as needed.
4. Cloud Visibility Solutions
- Description: Provide packet visibility for public and private cloud environments, enabling monitoring tools to access cloud traffic without impacting performance.
- Products:
- Garland Prisms: Out-of-band packet mirroring solution for cloud and Kubernetes environments.
- Features:
- Non-intrusive visibility into cloud workloads.
- Support for modern compute environments, including Kubernetes.
- Scalable architecture to accommodate cloud growth.
- Integration with existing network-based monitoring tools.
- Maintains performance without modifying deployment architectures.
Unique Value Proposition
Garland Technology stands out by delivering reliable, cost-effective, and easy-to-deploy network visibility solutions that offer complete packet visibility. Their products are designed to integrate effortlessly with existing security and monitoring tools, boosting their effectiveness while ensuring network performance and cybersecurity. With a strong focus on scalability and flexibility, Garland Technology allows organizations to deploy solutions as needed, supporting both network growth and evolving security needs.
