Blue Coat SG8100 MACH5 Series Appliances

Secure Web Communications and Accelerate Business Applications

The foundation of Blue Coat’s application delivery infrastructure, Blue Coat ProxySG appliances establish points of control that accelerate and secure business applications for users across the distributed organization. As the world's leading proxy appliance, the Blue Coat ProxySG, MACH5 Edition, is a powerful yet flexible tool for improving application performance. Deployed at remote branches, and in the network core, these appliances form a transparent, secure and fast application delivery infrastructure to improve user productivity and reduce bandwidth expense.

• Performance – Blue Coat’s patented MACH5 acceleration technology combines five different capabilities onto one box. Together they optimize application performance and help ensure delivery of critical applications. User and application fluent, MACH5 improves the user experience no matter where the application is located, internally or externally on the Internet.
• Control – Blue Coat’s patented Policy Processing Engine empowers IT to make intelligent decisions. Through simultaneous consideration of all network and application factors, organizations can effectively align security and performance policies with corporate priorities.
• Security – Organizations no longer have to compromise security for performance. By combining full network transparency and application visibility with encryption for data protection, MACH5 accelerates applications while improving overall network security.

Acceleration - MACH5:

Blue Coat MACH5 technology is a patent-pending combination of five separate application management and tuning technologies that provide unrivaled improvements in application performance and bandwidth utilization. Whether at the edge of your network, or right in the heart of it, MACH5 technology provides a powerful toolkit for meeting any application delivery challenge. These technologies include:

• Bandwidth Management - Assign priority and network resources based not only on port or device, but on users, applications and content to more accurately reflect your corporate policies on the network.
• Protocol Optimization - Improve the performance of protocols that are inefficient over the WAN through specific enhancements that make them more tolerant to the higher latencies typically found there.
• Byte Caching - Cache repetitive traffic found in the byte stream and serve it locally to reduce the amount of traffic that actually uses the WAN at all.
• Object Caching - Store files, videos and Web content locally, providing LANlike performance for WAN users, without the overhead and risk of traditional wide area file services.
• Compression - Inline compression can reduce predictable patterns even on the first pass, making it an ideal complement to byte caching technology.
• MACH5 Acceleration Client - SG Client software extends MACH5 acceleration capabilities to the desktop to improve the performance of applications and access to network file shares for remote users – such as mobile employees, telecommuters and small branch offices – connecting over VPNs or the WAN.

MACH5 versus Proxy Edition - What is the Difference?
License Type	MACH5	Proxy Edition
Windows Media Streaming
Real Media Streaming
QuickTime Streaming
Bandwidth Management
HTTP proxy
MAPI proxy
DNS proxy
SOCKS proxy
Telnet proxy
Forwarding
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
SG Client	Add-On	Add-On

Control - Proxy Services:

The Blue Coat ProxySG provides a layered policy approach allowing companies to balance their communication needs with current business and Internet risks. The Blue Coat ProxySG provides unmatched flexibility and scalability.

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)
• Extend all controls (content, user, application, etc) to encrypted traffic for all users and applications—both inside and outside the enterprise

Performance and Reliability - SGOS:

The purpose-built Blue Coat ProxySG appliance provides flexible control with wire-speed performance allowing a company to advise, coach and enforce granular policies down to individual users. Key SGOS and platform highlights include:

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, plus optional SSL off loading.

Network functionality including:

• Active/Active bridging support using virtual IP addressing for failover and remote installations.
• Routing configurations for gateway, route tables, RIP, DNS, and WCCP.
• Health checks performed on a forwarding host or external servers to verify status and availability of device.
• 19” Rack mountable (with kit) or portable use Integrated support services.
• 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:

The patent-pending Policy Processing Engine enables sophisticated security triggers based on individual users, groups of users, time of day, location, protocol, hostname user agent, content type and other attributes to initiate policy actions. These comprehensive capabilities include:

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
• Built-in text editor for CPL allows sample code to be copied and pasted from Blue Coat TechBriefs or Support Services advisories

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 and Control of SG Clients:

• Configure, provision and maintain global deployment of SG Clients
• Control which applications are accelerated by user
• Upgrade client versions seamlessly with auto version detection and update

Visibility — Management Reporting:

Visibility is the key to managing employee Web communications in the enterprise. Blue Coat provides the tools needed to log and track user interactions over the Internet and across corporate boundaries.

Default logging:

• HTTP, HTTPS, CIFS, MAPI, FTP, P2P, TCPTunnel, IM, 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 Blue Coat ProxySG 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/role-based viewing
• Provides real-time reporting with continuous log uploads from one or more ProxySGs

Technical Specifications
MACH5 Models:	SG8100-10	SG8100-20	SG8100-25
License Capacity:
Concurrent Connections	1,500	2,300	Unlimited
System:
Disk Drives	4 x 300GB SCSI Ultra 320	8 x 300GB SCSI Ultra 320	8 x 300GB SCSI Ultra 320
RAM	6GB	8GB	8GB
Network Interfaces	(2) Integrated (on board) 10/100/1000Base-T NICs 4 x 10/100/1000Base-T card (quad GigE with passthru) SSL Card
Optional Cards	SSL Offload Card (optional 2nd SSL Offload Card)
Optinal NICs	2 x 10/100/1000Base-T card (dual GigE) 4 x 10/100/1000Base-T card (quad GigE) 4 x 10/100/1000Base-SX card (quad GigE Fibre)
Operating Environment:
Power	AC power 100-240V, 50-60Hz, 6.3-3.0A
Maximum Power	525 Watts
Thermal Rating	1792 BTU/Hr
Temperature	5ºC to 40ºC (41ºF to 104ºF)
Humidity	Less than 90% relative humidity, non-condensing
Altitude	Up to 3000M (9,483ft)
Dimensions and Weight:
Enclosure	19" Rack-mountable
Dimensions (LxWxH)	59.2cm x 44.2cm x 17.652cm (23.3 in x 17.4 in x 6.95 in)
Weight	27.2 kg (60 lb)	30.8 kg (68 lb)	30.8 kg (68 lb)
Regulations:
Emissions	FCC Class A, EN55022 Class A, VCCI Class A No.1706609, BSMI, CCC, C-tick
Safety	CSA C22.2 No. 950 M95, UL 60950 3rd Edition, EN60950, TUV-GS, TUV-S, CCC, BSMI
Standards	UL/CSA, TUV-S, BSMI, C-tick, CCC, CE
Support:
Support	90-day software & phone support with 1-year hardware support; extended and upgraded support plans available

 

Download the Blue Coat SGOS MACH5 Edition Datasheet (PDF).