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"We were impressed by the attention to detail and security Blue Coat demonstrated throughout the entire process," said Jeremy Duncan, managing partner, Tachyon Dynamics. Currently, the Blue Coat ProxySG systems (S400 and S500) are the only web proxy devices in the security industry on the DoD UC APL.

"Both Kurt and Steve have proven track records of channel transformation, partner success and sales operations" said Marc Andrews, Blue Coat senior vice president of worldwide field operations. "They are terrific additions to our team. I'm looking forward to working with them to expand our global partner base and our sales efficiency while driving increased revenue."

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In the last few years the concept of Software Defined Networking (SDN) has begun to take hold within the networking industry. Simply put, in an SDN network, the control plane is separated from the data plane. Network control thus occurs separate from individual routers and switches. SDN controllers dynamically translate the logical network defined by the administrators to individual flow tables residing on each router or switch in the SDN network. Of course, there's more to SDN than just the abstraction of the control plane via network controllers, but this blog isn't the time or place for that discussion. The Open Networking Foundation (www.opennetworking.org) is a good place to learn more about SDN.