Business
Challenges
The exponential growth in the
use of the Internet, combined
with increased reliance on IP-based
networks (private, public or
VPN), for mission-critical and
time-sensitive traffic, has
resulted in unprecedented demands
on existing communication systems.
In order to achieve an acceptable
quality of service (QoS) and
maximize the performance of
business-critical applications,
enterprise network managers
need to allocate network resources
based on business priorities.
Service providers have a varied
subscriber base, including homes,
small offices/home offices (SOHOs),
branch offices and enterprise
networks. Since each subscriber
group has different networking
needs--and not all subscribers
will be online at any one instant--Internet
service providers, web hosting
facilities, ASPs and data centers
use over-subscription to maximize
return on investment (ROI).
Network Service Providers want
to offer Service Level Agreements
(SLAs) and prevent any single
user from overrunning a resource
for which they are only paying
a portion of the cost. More
importantly, enterprise customers
are willing to pay additional
fees in order to receive premium
tiered services such as "Gold",
"Silver", or "Bronze",
or classes of service that deliver
the bandwidth to support specific
business-critical applications
such as VoIP, SAP and Citrix.
Award wining Blue Coat System
Security Gateway is the
industry's first security
appliance designed to provide
added security for web protocols,
control enterprise security
and usage policies, and
increase the performance
and manageability of enterprise
security infrastructure.
Based on a high-performance,
secure operating system,
the Blue Coat System Security
Gateway is the ideal choice
for optimizing multiple
web security functions including
authorization management,
virus scanning, content
security, web usage monitoring,
content filtering, and network
protection.
