More on the powerful capabilities within the Blue Coat solution:

• Security – Unmatched ability to secure Web communications – filter inappropriate content, block spyware, scan for viruses, and even discover malicious content inside encrypted SSL tunnels. In addition, Blue Coat works with all leading authentication systems to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive content. As a result of all these features, the threat of security breaches via the Web is minimized.
• Performance – Blue Coats ability to accelerate delivery of business applications is a result of its MACH5 technology (Multiprotocol Accelerated Caching Hierarchy). MACH5 delivers five critical performance enhancement capabilities: bandwidth management, protocol optimization, byte caching, object caching, and compression Collectively, MACH5 allows IT organizations to optimize application performance and utilization of costly bandwidth for remote users across the distributed enterprise The result is LAN-like application performance over the WAN, with significant performance gains after deploying Blue Coat appliances with MACH5 technology.
• Control – Integrated, centrally-managed, policy-based control to enforce individual and enterprise-wide security and performance policies for all Web users and applications This includes more than 500 policies associated with who, what, when, where, and how users and applications communicate with each other – regardless of their physical location.
• Proxy technology – Blue Coat appliances function as proxies between users and applications for all inbound and outbound communication sessions As such, the appliances become a termination point – and therefore an extremely effective control point - between users and applications. This gives IT organizations granular control of security and performance issues associated with each user-application session.
• Scalability – Blue Coat solutions have been designed for branch offices, Internet gateways, data centers, and (with the acquisition of Permeo) even down to individual end points And, although these control points are distributed, they work together as a single, highly scalable system that enables IT to regain control of security and performance issues across the enterprise.

• Security – IT must make the Web safe for business, blocking Internet security threats and inappropriate content, while granting authorized users access to necessary applications and content.
• Performance – IT must strive to optimize performance of critical business applications – such as e-mail, file systems, multimedia applications, and Web applications (including encrypted SSL applications) being delivered to remote users in branch offices, as well as mobile users.
• Control – To address the requirements above, IT must have granular visibility and policy-based control capabilities to ensure that the business is providing superior security and performance for all users and critical applications.

The company's growth strategy is focused on meeting the growing demand for solutions that can accelerate the delivery of business applications to remote users across the distributed enterprise. In addition, Blue Coat continues to focus on providing security at the Internet gateway for Web users and applications. The same set of appliances is able to address both market opportunities because they incorporate a comprehensive set of security capabilities (optimized through Blue Coats proxy technology) and performance capabilities (optimized through Blue Coats caching and compression technologies leveraged from its prior focus as CacheFlow).

This unique combination of security and performance enhancement features - along with comprehensive policy-based control capabilities - is what makes Blue Coat unique in the industry. Because these appliances can be broadly deployed and centrally managed, customers are using Blue Coat solutions to establish intelligent points of control in branch offices, Internet gateways, data centers, and individual end points. Blue Coat has installed more than 40,000 appliances worldwide and is already ranked #1 by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery market. Moving forward, Blue Coat believes this market will evolve and expand to become is a multi-billion dollar market opportunity.