TThe Blue Coat Solution

Blue Coat SG200, SG510, SG 810 and SG8100 secure web proxy server appliances provide a proven, flexible way to control and apply content-based protection policies for network bandwidth.

 With Blue Coat solutions, you can protect your network by applying: 

• Policy-based Bandwidth Limits: Create policies to constrain who can use certain media types, and how much of it. For example, you can allow your executives to view high-bandwidth streaming media, but only allow the accounting group to view streams up to 56k on corporate sites.
• Deny by content type: Flexible policy architecture limits certain users or network segments access to large amounts of data that potentially clog corporate networks. For example, block MP3 files from being downloaded. Or, block MP3 files for everyone except the Webmaster who may require audio files to complete a corporate project.
• Access control based on user, group, network address, time of day: Prevent all access to the Internet except for a group of users that need access to do their jobs, effectively freeing bandwidth for mission-critical needs.
• Content positioning: Provides pre-positioning of content commonly accessed by users. Tools are available that let administrators pre-position large data types like multimedia and streaming content, effectively optimizing the use of expensive WAN links through intelligent content positioning policies.
• Caching: Integrated into every Blue Coat secure web proxy appliance is patent-pending, intelligent caching software enabling Web and multimedia content to be stored locally - closer to users. With up to 60% of end-user requests for content being redundant, caching provides a foundation for bandwidth management.