Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway (May 2011)
O2 Networks have a long standing relationship with Blue Coat based on their best of breed proxy and traffic shaping platforms.
If you are looking for a robust and feature rich solution for web proxy or looking to build your own content delivery network for streaming rich media, Blue Coat offer the best solution in the marketplace.
Blue Coat Systems is a designer and manufacturer of network security and network management products. Blue coat is the market leader in the web proxy marketspace, and is an application delivery network (ADN) specialist. The Blue Coat product set has been augmented in recent times through the acquisition of Packeteer in 2008, and S7 Software Solutions in 2010.
Blue Coat ProxySG Full Proxy Edition appliances are the foundation of an Application Delivery Network (ADN) that provides complete application visibility, acceleration and security. To support the ADN, 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.
ProxySG provides complete control over Web traffic, enabling the following functions:
ProxySG is the ultimate foundation for a Secure Web Gateway with its content controls and policy flexibility, or a branch office providing security and acceleration in one solution.
ProxyAV appliances work in tandem with Blue Coat ProxySG appliances and support industry-leading anti-malware engines. As an inline scanning device, the ProxyAV appliance analyzes all file downloads from user-authenticated Web 2.0 sites, webmail, file sharing and other methods of content delivery.
Blue Coat ProxyAV appliances support four modes of content analysis, which enables you to scan all web traffic and deliver greater protection against potential threats. All without compromising network performance. For further protection against inbound threats, ProxyAV appliances can scan files up to 2 GB in size and analyze up to 99 layers of compressed archives.
Together, ProxyAV and ProxySG provide:
Blue Coat Director provides organisations with the power, control and visibility to ensure the success of a ProxySG deployment. Through Director’s single, easy-to-use web interface, you can configure and manage all your ProxySG appliances wherever they reside on your network. With Director, it is also possible to deploy, monitor and enforce security and acceleration policies on hundreds of appliances deployed worldwide. All without leaving your seat.
Automated job scheduling helps conserve bandwidth by allowing maintenance and updates, such as software and license upgrades, to be scheduled during off-peak hours. You can also update policies and ensure they are consistently enforced across your entire ProxySG deployment. And with centralized management, you save time and reduce the security risk of needing to access the appliances themselves.
With Director, it is simple to obtain detailed reports on job status, key health statistics and performance per region, and with real-time monitoring and alert filtering, you can determine which issues require immediate action, where they are located and more. You can also schedule reports during off-peak hours and deliver them as PDF files through email.
With Blue Coat Director, you can do all this and more:
The Blue Coat CacheFlow appliance is a high-performance web caching solution designed to help service providers save significantly on bandwidth and accelerate the delivery of rich Web 2.0 content, including video. CacheFlow easily scales to support more users and greater traffic volumes over time, plus provides built-in tools for web traffic reporting and filtering to protect users.
With CacheFlow, you don’t have to keep buying expensive bandwidth to meet performance goals. Using CacheFlow, you can dramatically cut infrastructure costs and deliver a more responsive web experience. With the CachePulse technology, customers can be confident the CacheFlow solution will sustain high bandwidth savings and user experience gains over the long haul.
CachePulse tracks the ever-changing web, so as new sites emerge or popular sites change how they deliver content, new caching rules and instruction updates are automatically delivered from the CachePulse cloud to the CacheFlow appliance.
PacketShaper gives you content-aware control of today’s web-integrated WAN, allowing you to prioritise important applications like Oracle and SAP and assuring quality for VoIP and videoconferencing. This control allows you to contain recreational traffic to any level you specify, while PacketShaper’s unique integration of application and web content intelligence gives you the x-ray vision needed to monitor today’s network traffic, and enforces your rules with priority, partition and rate control technologies.
PacketShaper analyzes and positively identifies traffic generated by hundreds of business and recreational applications. Through a tight integration with WebPulse – Blue Coat’s real-time web intelligence service – PacketShaper can even control application traffic by web content category. For example, you can permit low-impact social networking like Facebook status updates, but squeeze time-wasting games like FarmVille. PacketShaper makes it easy to collectively control related applications and content, while giving you precise tools to get granular where necessary.