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Blue Coat PacketShaper Appliances Deliver Intelligent Control with Industry's First Classification of Web Applications and Content by URL Category

Release Date: 11/08/2010 - 4:45am

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Instant Awareness of New Applications and Content Allows Organizations to Stay Ahead of Rapidly Evolving Web with Minimal IT Effort

SUNNYVALE, Calif., November 8, 2010 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Blue Coat® PacketShaper® appliances can now deliver instant awareness of Web applications and content, enabling organizations to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving Web with minimal IT effort. With the industry's first "classification by URL category" functionality, PacketShaper appliances provide intelligent control that can immediately manage new Web applications and content without requiring updates or new policies.

"Today, HTTP traffic is increasingly business related, yet most organizations do not have visibility into this traffic type, making it impossible to distinguish between business-critical Web applications and those that could be harmful, not to mention all the Web content in between like social networking and video," said Cindy Borovick, vice president of enterprise communications infrastructure and datacenter networks at IDC. "Companies must be able to clearly differentiate Web traffic in a way that is fine-grained and can scale with the growth of new content and applications."

Instant Awareness through WebPulse

PacketShaper appliances can now utilize the cloud-based Blue Coat WebPulse™ service, a community of 70 million users that provides comprehensive Web awareness through shared information, to understand and categorize Web applications and content in real time. This integration with the WebPulse service enables PacketShaper appliances to categorize tens of millions of Websites and billions of URLs into 80 logical and manageable categories, allowing organizations to collectively manage and apply policies to similar content.

With the WebPulse service, each URL can be classified in up to four distinct categories, enabling more precise and granular visibility into and management of Web applications and content. For example, an organization can allow access to Facebook for status updates and chat while limiting bandwidth allocated to Facebook games.

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