Blue Coat Systems

Blue Coat Systems was founded in 1996 and has been producing proxy appliances as its core focus. Blue Coat develops proxy appliances based on a custom, object-based operating system providing flexible control with wire-speed performance, and enterprise scalability and reliability. The flagship product, the Blue Coat SG appliance family, provides comprehensive proxy services for 15 protocols with unprecedented visibility and control of web content. The Blue Coat SG runs 9 different on-proxy filtering databases managed through a graphical policy table, and enables extensive reporting capabilities. Blue Coat also develops Blue Coat AV, an AV scan engine-agnostic Web AV appliance, which, paired with Blue Coat SG, is the highest performance Web AV solution on the market. Blue Coat AV in enterprise configurations scans up to 405 Mbps of traffic for viruses, worms, Trojans, and spyware.

Blue Coat is ranked #1 world-wide by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery segments. Our proxy appliances accelerate business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat's family of appliances and client-based solutions – deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers – provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance between users and applications.

Blue Coat's MACH5 technology provides 5 synergistic WAN optimization techniques; protocol optimization, object caching, byte caching, compression and bandwidth management to accelerate WAN and ASP applications, reduce bandwidth use and latency. MACH5 is unique in its ability to accelerate SSL applications and e-learning multimedia.