Blue Coat SG900 Proxy Series Appliances

WAN Optimization for a superior user experience!

As the foundation of Blue Coat’s Application Delivery Network (ADN), Blue Coat ProxySG appliances accelerate and secure business applications for users across the distributed enterprise. The Blue Coat ProxySG Acceleration Edition is a powerful yet flexible WAN Optimization solution for improving application performance. Deployed at both remote branches and in the network core, ProxySG appliances form a transparent, secure and fast application delivery infrastructure to improve user productivity, reduce bandwidth expense and enable key IT initiatives.

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:

Complete Control
ProxySG provides complete control over Web traffic enabling the following functions: Strong user authentication, Web filtering, deep inspection of content for data loss or threats, security checks to the WebPulse™ collaborative cloud defense, inspection and validation of SSL traffic, content caching and traffic optimization, bandwidth management, streaming media splitting and caching, method level controls per protocol, plus the ability to filter, strip or replace Web content. ProxySG is the ultimate foundation for a Secure Web Gateway with its content controls and policy flexibility, or a branch office providing security and acceleration in one solution.

Layered Defenses Security Framework
ProxySG with WebPulse, the collaborative cloud defense uniting over 75M users for Web awareness and response to Web content and threats, creates a hybrid design providing the best of on-premise controls with the collective intelligence of cloud service. ProxySG deployed with WebFilter automatically includes the WebPulse cloud service and ProxyClient for remote user protection, filtering and acceleration. ProxySG with ProxyAV enables the highest performing inline threat analysis, including SSL, with a choice of leading anti-malware engines. And data loss prevention integration is securely enabled with S-ICAP or standard ICAP on ProxySG with certified DLP partners.

Unmatched Performance & Reliability
ProxySG innovations in new hardware platforms with multiple cores and the SGOS operating system with multithreading provide 1Gbps throughput for high availability deployments and scale 5X beyond the previous generation. SGOS is a micro kernel built for Web object processing, secure and small in design, it rarely needs attention or patches, and it runs year after year at performance levels beyond the competition. Health checks and monitoring provide administrator awareness, plus Director enables centralized device, license and policy management of ProxySG Web gateways.

Scalability and Lower TCO
The Blue Coat security framework scales in many ways resulting in lower TCO for customers. The performance innovations require less hardware, rack space and power than alternative solutions. New defenses can be seamlessly added to the WebPulse cloud to scale the depth of protection. Expanding groups of remote users can accelerate their office communications with ProxyClient and be protected by WebPulse. Available reporting scales for visibility of all Web gateway and remote users with custom dashboards and reports on a single server with an included optimized database for up to 10 billion log lines.

Deployment:

Blue Coat provides a layered defense against Web 2.0 threats leveraging WebPulse cloud intelligence from over 75M 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:

*redundant power optional

Documentation:

Download the Blue Coat ProxySG 900-9000 Full Proxy Datasheet (PDF).