Blue Coat SG510 MACH5 Series Appliances

Blue Coat SG 510 Series Appliances - MACH5 Edition Overview:

With the same protection and acceleration features found in our enterprise-grade ProxySG 8100 Series platform, the Blue Coat ProxySG 510 offers an affordable rack-mountable appliance for small enterprises and branch offices that require direct Internet access.

ProxySG 510 accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise, providing a fast, LAN-like experience no matter where your users work. The ProxySG 510 platform also helps control Internet traffic to prevent malware and unauthorized applications from compromising network security or performance.

Deliver a superior user experience

As the foundation of Blue Coat’s Application Delivery Network (ADN), Blue Coat ProxySG appliances accelerate business applications for users across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat ProxySG Acceleration Edition is a powerful yet flexible tool for improving application performance. ProxySG appliances, deployed at the core and edges of an enterprise’s application delivery infrastructure deliver a fast application delivery infrastructure to improve user productivity and reduce bandwidth expense.

ProxySG appliances licensed for Acceleration Edition deliver a full WAN Optimization feature set. With this, you can:

• Enhance productivity across the distributed enterprise by accelerating internal, external and real-time application performance for branch and mobile users
   
• Significantly reduce bandwidth with industry-leading compression, byte caching and object caching technologies

Features:

• Protocol Optimization: Accelerates application performance over the WAN 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 centrally-stored 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: Ensures productivity by prioritizing enterprise-critical data flows over bulk-data or recreational traffic flows.
• Rich Media 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.

Acceleration:

Bandwidth Management

• Assign priority and network resources based on port, device, applications or content to reflect corporate policies

Protocol Optimization

• Improve inefficient protocols by making them more tolerant to higher latencies

Byte Caching

• Cache repetitive traffic found in the byte stream and serve it locally to reduce WAN traffic

Object Caching

• Store files, videos and Web content locally, providing LAN-like performance over WAN

Compression

• Inline compression can reduce predictable patterns even on the first pass

ProxyClient™

• Remote acceleration for file and application performance software extends acceleration capabilities to remote users connecting over VPNs or the WAN

Control - Proxy Services:

Proxy support for multiple protocols

• HTTP, CIFS, SSL, FTP, MAPI, P2P, MMS, RTSP, QuickTime, TCP-Tunnel, DNS
• Bandwidth management on all proxy services
• SSL Termination & Proxy (forward and reverse)
• Control encrypted traffic for all users and applications inside and outside the enterprise

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 Blue Coat 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, MAPI, FTP, TCPTunnel, 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-able” overview of Web activity
• 150+ 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 Blue Coat SGs

Product Comparison:
 

Acceleration versus Proxy Edition - What is the Difference?
License Type	Acceleration Editon (MACH5)	Proxy Edition
Windows Media Streaming
Real Media Streaming
QuickTime Streaming
Bandwidth Management
HTTP proxy
MAPI proxy
DNS proxy
Forwarding
ProxyClient
SOCKS proxy
Telnet proxy
ICAP services
Netegrity SiteMinder
Oblix COREid
Peer-To-Peer
User Authentication
Onbox Content Filtering (3rd Party or BCWF)
Onbox Content Filtering (e.g. Websense)
Instant Messaging (AOL, Yahoo, and MSN)		Free
SSL Termination/Proxy	Add-On	Add-On

Diagrams:

The ProxySG provides visibility and control of Web communications for remote offices in an affordable platform.

Blue Coat provides a layered defense against Web 2.0 threats leveraging WebPulse cloud intelligence from over 62M users to protect the Web gateway and remote users. ProxySG provides unmatched policy flexibility, performance and reliability to secure networks and accelerate content.

Technical Specifications:

Documentation:

Download the Blue Coat Acceleration Edition ProxySG 210/510/810 Datasheet (PDF).

Download the Blue Coat ProxySG Family Datasheet Datasheet (PDF).