Blue Coat SG900 MACH5 Series Appliances
Power, flexibility, and speed in one appliance

Acceleration

• Protocol Optimization: Accelerate application performance by mitigating the penalties that latency imposes on inefficient protocols or applications originally architected for the LAN and running on the WAN
• Object Caching: Dramatically accelerate web application and workflows that depend on centrallystored files by delivering remote content locally in the branch
• Byte Caching: Reduce the effects of latency, and significantly reduce bandwidth consumption for repetitive data elements, even across disparate applications, transmitted over the WAN
• Compression: Reduce the effect of latency, and reduce bandwidth consumption for any compressible data transiting the WAN
• Bandwidth Management: Ensure productivity by prioritizing enterprisecritical data flows over bulk-data or recreational traffic
• Video Optimization: Stream splitting, video pre-population and video caching can save up to 99.99% of bandwidth
• Mobile User Optimization: Productivity enhancement for mobile and home users with Blue Coat ProxyClient

Application Acceleration

Support for multiple protocols

• HTTP, CIFS, SSL, FTP, Encrypted MAPI, MAPI, P2P, MMS, RTMP, RTSP, QuickTime, SCPS, TCP-Tunnel, DNS
• Provide LAN-like application performance to remote users and branch offices
• Deliver outstanding performance for streaming audio, video and other rich media applications
• Bandwidth management on all acceleration services
• Accelerate live and on-demand rich media, as well as SSL-encrypted traffic
• Control encrypted traffic for all users and applications inside and outside the enterprise
• Reduce recurring network bandwidth costs with multiple levels of compression and content caching

Performance & Reliability – SGOS

Platform highlights:

• Secure object-based operating system with small footprint
• High-speed caching with advanced object pipelining and adaptive refresh
• Built-in pass-through network card, compression services, bandwidth management and SSL off loading

Network functionality including:

• Active/Active bridging support using virtual IP addressing for failover and remote installations
• Completely transparent when tunneling applications between appliances, maintaining IP and port information for traffic management
• Native support for advanced clustering for near limitless scalability, without additional load balancing appliances
• Routing configurations for gateway, route tables, RIP, DNS, and WCCP, with support for asymmetric routing of application delivery tunnels
• Health checks performed on a forwarding host or external servers to verify status and availability of device
• View & submit service requests via the Blue Coat management interface
• Send snapshots (trace files) to Blue Coat Support Services for faster resolution

Manageability – Policy Processing Engine

Powerful management interface

• Web-based management interface
• Optional command line interface
• Alerting via SNMP, SMTP and logging administrative events

Content Policy Language (CPL)

• Create custom text-based policies to address unique policy requirements
• Definable triggers and actions for policy definition

Extended Management with Director

• Distribute, backup, restore policy files for multiple ProxySG appliances
• Manage policies by device, group, or region
• Job scheduling/job status reporting

Management & Control of ProxyClient

• Configure, provision and maintain global deployment of ProxyClient
• Upgrade client versions seamlessly with auto version detection and update

Visibility – Management Reporting

Default logging

• HTTP, HTTPS, CIFS, Encrypted MAPI, MAPI, FTP, TCP-Tunnel, P2P, ICP, Windows Media, Real Media, QuickTime, DNS
• Global log file limits and upload sizing
• Client upload settings and scheduling

Custom logging and trace files

• Selectable fields/text/log formats

Statistics

• Bandwidth Gain
• HTTP/HTTPS/FTP history
• Streaming history
• Resources

SNMP Support

• Trap settings, community strings

Aggregate logs with Reporter

• Reporter dashboard - intuitive console that provides a “drill-down” overview of Web activity
• 50+ pre-defined reports track user activity, security risks, and Web traffic performance
• Secure browser access/rolebased viewing
• Provides real-time reporting with continuous log uploads from one or more ProxySGs