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Blue Coat is focused on developing proxy appliances that provide powerful visibility and control of all Web communications. Blue Coat Proxy SG and ProxyAV appliances allow organisations, to rapidly deploy applications such as content filtering, spyware prevention, Web virus scanning, IM and P2P control, Web proxy and bandwidth management while actually improving Web performance.

Blue Coat ProxySG®: The world’s leading proxy appliance

The Blue Coat ProxySG family of appliances delivers a scalable proxy platform architecture to secure Web communications and accelerate the delivery of business applications. ProxySG is built on SGOS, a custom, object-based operating system that enables flexible policy control over content, users, applications and protocols.

Blue Coat ProxySG high-performance appliances help manage the various proxy requirements across a typical enterprise network. Delivered as a rack-mountable appliance for simple installation and management, Blue Coat ProxySG is designed to meet proxy requirements at branch offices, Internet gateways, datacenters and global service providers.

Blue Coat ProxyAV™: Stop malware at the Web gateway

ProxyAV appliances enable organisations to detect viruses, worms, spyware and trojans at the Web gateway. ProxyAV can also block most unknown spyware that targets HTTP, FTP and HTTPS protocols, in addition to preventing zero-day attacks and rootkit malware from reaching desktops.

ProxyAV integrates with Blue Coat ProxySG’s fast caching capabilities to deliver outstanding AV gateway performance. With an efficient architecture that allows you to scan content once and serve it many times, ProxyAV can scan up to 285Mbps traffic with less than 10Ms latency.

Blue Coat PacketShaper®: Identify, measure and prioritise network applications

Blue Coat PacketShaper delivers integrated visibility, control and compression capabilities in a single appliance. With PacketShaper, IT can identify all the applications on the network and monitor response times and utilisation at the application level. In addition, PacketShaper optimises performance with granular quality-of-service (QoS) traffic controls as well as application-specific compression techniques that increase WAN capacity.

Blue Coat Director: Provide centralised configuration and policy management

Blue Coat Director provides centralised policy, configuration and device management of Blue Coat appliances across any distributed enterprise. From a single, easy-to-use Web interface, administrators can deploy hundreds of appliances, monitor and enforce security policies and respond to emergencies with the click of a button. Director can automate the deployment of remote Blue Coat appliances during rollout, allowing these appliances to be pre-configured and shipped to remote locations for fast installation. Once it’s installed, Director allows events such as device status and network changes to be easily monitored from a convenient dashboard. Finally, Director allows you to set policies that can automatically respond to sudden changes in the network, including disasters and outages, so you can fix them before they impact the end user.

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