EdgeLens by Garland Technology is a bypass TAP and network packet broker hybrid designed for managing inline tool availability, high availability deployments, and tool chaining. EdgeLens provides network TAP packet visibility for out-of-band monitoring tools such as threat detection, storage, and performance monitoring, along with traffic aggregation, filtering, and load balancing capabilities. EdgeLens allows sandboxing of new tool deployments, managing updates, installing patches, performing maintenance or troubleshooting, and validating out-of-band without impacting the network.