Blue Coat
Blue Coat provides customers with a family of intelligent appliances and endpoint technologies that deliver a comprehensive set of application acceleration and security features and benefits. Blue Coat appliances are unique because they are able to understand and control the way users and applications interact and behave on the network.
Secure Web Gateway
Proxy SG Appliances
The Blue Coat Full Proxy Edition of ProxySG appliances are part of the Application Delivery Network infrastructure that provides complete application visibility, acceleration and security. To support the Application Delivery Network, ProxySG delivers a scalable proxy platform architecture to secure Web communications and accelerate the delivery of business applications. ProxySG enables flexible policy controls over content, users, applications and protocols and is the choice of more than 80% of the Fortune Global 500
Proxy Edition SG210, SG510, SG810 PDF (616Kb)
Proxy Edition SG8100 PDF (680Kb)
Proxy Edition SG9000 PDF (686Kb)
WAN Acceleration
Proxy SG Acceleration Edition
Blue Coat ProxySG Acceleration Edition appliances accelerate business applications for users across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat ProxySG Acceleration Edition is a powerful yet flexible tool for improving application performance. ProxySG appliances, deployed at the core and edges of an enterprise's application delivery infrastructure deliver a fast application delivery infrastructure to improve user productivity and reduce bandwidth expense.
ProxySG appliances licensed for Acceleration Edition deliver a full WAN optimisation feature set. With this, you can:
- Enhance productivity across the distributed enterprise by accelerating internal, external and real-time application performance for branch and mobile users
- Significantly reduce bandwidth with industry-leading compression, byte caching and object caching technologies
Acceleration Edition SG210, SG510, SG810 PDF (350Kb)
Acceleration Edition SG8100 PDF (346Kb)
Acceleration Edition SG9000 PDF (446Kb)
Proxy AV Appliance
The Blue Coat ProxyAV supports leading malware engines from Panda, Sophos, McAfee and Kaspersky with updates as frequently as every 5 minutes, providing more effective protection than traditional desktop anti-virus solutions. Unlike competitive offerings, Blue coat provides deferred scanning which removes long load objects like Web radio and other media from processing threads to further optimize Web gateway performance.
ProxyAV supports four modes of content analysis, including traditional object analysis, trickle first or last stream analysis, and deferred scan. ProxyAV can be configured to analyze both inbound and outbound traffic and includes options such as set time-out duration, drop file if errors in detection occur, and define trusted sites. Policy can be set for allow/deny lists, with extensions along with file size and content type restrictions. Alerts and log files can also be customized.
Proxy AV210, AV510, AV810 PDF (596Kb)
Proxy AV1400, AV2400 PDF (593Kb)
Application Performance Monitoring
Blue Coat Packetshaper
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 utilization at the application level. In addition, IT can optimize application performance by using granular quality of service (QoS) controls to regulate traffic and increase WAN capacity through application-specific compression techniques. Designed as a scalable, flexible platform, PacketShaper can be easily configured for additional functionality with a flexible range of appliances that can be enhanced by software modules or hardware components such as:
- Monitoring Module for Layer 7 deep packet inspection monitoring of over 600 applications
- Shaping Module for traffic shaping and guaranteed bandwidth for mission critical applications
- Compression Module to increase WAN capacity while improving application performance
PacketShaper Application List PDF (440Kb)

