Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across distributed organisations. Blue Coat’s family of appliances and client-based solutions – deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centres – provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organisations to optimise security and accelerate performance between users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 30,000 appliances worldwide and is ranked No.1 by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery market.

Blue Coat’s proxy appliances enables organisations to accelerate delivery of all key productivity applications, including SSL encrypted applications and streaming, to users in branch and remote offices using five acceleration techniques that work together – Bandwidth Management, Protocol Optimization, Object Caching, Byte Caching, and Compression.

The Blue Coat appliances provide total visibility and control of Web communications with wire-speed performance. They integrate with authentication systems to enable flexible policy enforcement down to the individual user.  They combine content filtering, instant messaging control, peer-to-peer (P2P) control and virus scanning. Blue Coat's end-to-end product portfolio includes powerful reporting, policy and configuration management software – delivering a scalable proxy solution for centralised or distributed environments.

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