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Follow on Google News | Blue Coat Introduces Industry’s First IPv6 WAN Optimization SolutionAppliance provides acceleration and optimization to both IPv4 and IPv6 content and applications
By: Colin Saldanha “IPv6 presents some significant challenges to companies and service providers, ranging from traffic visibility and access control to security and WAN optimization,” Unlike competitive WAN optimization solutions, which can only provide basic data reduction for IPv6 packets, the Blue Coat MACH5 appliance works at the application level across both IPv4 and IPv6 environments. It maintains application- “Blue Coat is proud to provide the first true IPv6 WAN optimization solution,” said Steve Dehab, chief marketing officer, Blue Coat Systems. “The advances we have made in solving these complex networking issues reflect our ongoing industry and technology leadership.” Blue Coat WAN Optimization appliances provide users with a powerful and flexible solution for optimizing file access, email, storage and backup while also providing advanced technologies for web, cloud and video applications. They provide a comprehensive set of WAN optimization features that dramatically accelerate response time and reduce bandwidth consumption through the use of industry-leading compression, protocol optimization, byte caching and object caching technologies. The appliances have integrated caching and stream-splitting to greatly reduce the network load of on-demand and live video from the Web or internal servers. Blue Coat WAN Optimization appliances enable video to scale across the enterprise and protect against video floods that can overtake business-critical traffic optimized by traditional WAN optimization appliances. In addition, the appliances can accelerate content and applications from the public Web without requiring cloud deployment of another appliance. By accelerating internal and Web-based applications for branch and mobile users, Blue Coat WAN optimization solutions enhance productivity across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat WAN Optimization appliances are also the industry’s first IPv6 Secure Web Gateway to enable the secure and seamless migration of applications, services and content between IPv4 and IPv6 environments. The Blue Coat WAN Optimization appliance acts as an intelligent intermediary between requests and content, making the retrieval of applications, services and data in either an IPv4 or IPv6 environment transparent to users. To minimize network disruption and simplify the migration, Blue Coat WAN Optimization appliances consistently enforce corporate IT policies across IPv4 and IPv6 applications and content spaces. This provides business process continuity without the complications associated with address translations, rewriting applications or upgrading the underlying network infrastructure. The IPv6 capabilities are available immediately as a part of the latest operating software for Blue Coat MACH5 WAN Optimization appliances. There is no additional charge for the IPv6 functionality. For more information, please contact ipv6@bluecoat.com -Ends- About Blue Coat Systems Blue Coat Systems is a leading provider of Web security and WAN optimization solutions. Blue Coat offers solutions that provide the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. This application intelligence enables enterprises to tightly align network investments with business requirements, speed decision making and secure business applications for long-term competitive advantage. Blue Coat also offers service provider solutions for managed security and WAN optimization, as well as carrier-grade caching solutions to save on bandwidth and enhance the end-user Web experience. For additional information, please visit www.bluecoat.com. FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS: The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Blue Coat Systems’ expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, and including statements regarding the capabilities and expected performance of Blue Coat Systems’ products. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information available to Blue Coat Systems as of the date hereof, and Blue Coat Systems assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These and other risks relating to Blue Coat Systems’ business are set forth in the Securities and Exchange Commission reports filed by Blue Coat Systems, including but not limited to the risks described in the most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, particularly under the heading “Risk Factors.” Blue Coat and the Blue Coat logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Blue Coat Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. For more information, please contact: Manal Abi Rafeh Regional Marketing Manager ME & Turkey Blue Coat Systems ME Telephone: +971 4 3911620 Fax: +971 4 3911635 Email: manal.abirafeh@ Media Contact: Colin Saldanha PR Consultant PROCRE8 Dubai - UAE GSM: +971 (50) 6400762 Email: colin@procre8.biz End
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