Blue Coat Web Proxy Server Appliances - Overview

The Blue Coat ProxySG family of appliances delivers a scalable proxy platform architecture to secure Web communications and accelerate the delivery of business applications.

Deployed between users and applications as a true proxy, the ProxySG appliance provides a critical point of control for application traffic by terminating and reinitiating Web and other major application protocols. This allows the appliance to:

• Secure Web communications by blocking spyware, viruses and other unwanted traffic
• Control access by user and application to enforce Internet acceptable use policies
• Accelerate traffic across the Internet or WAN through integrated caching and compression

Blue Coat ProxySG appliances are designed to deliver a single proxy architecture that addresses the various proxy requirements across a typical enterprise network.

• Secure Web Gateway to protect internal users and networks from spyware and other attacks, enforce appropriate usage policies on Web access and accelerate external Web content
• Application Acceleration solution at branch offices to improve the often sluggish performance of applications – such as file services, rich media applications, and e-mail – that traverse the corporate WAN or the Internet
• Reverse Proxy in the DMZ to isolate web servers from direct Internet access and accelerate web-based applications and public websites.