Blue Coat introduces ProxyAV 210 appliance to reduce WAN costs

Together with a Blue Coat ProxySG appliance, the new ProxyAV 210 appliance eliminates the cost and congestion of backhauling Internet traffic over the WAN while enforcing centrally managed corporate IT policies, allowing enterprises to more efficiently utilize the network for the delivery of business-critical applications.

"As enterprises seek to more efficiently utilise their network resources, providing direct Internet access to the branch office is crucial to achieving improvements in application performance over the WAN. The Blue Coat ProxyAV 210 appliance provides a cost-effective way for enterprises to protect their branch offices from malicious threats and enforce corporate IT policies while freeing the WAN for business-critical application traffic."

said Nidal Taha, Middle East Regional Director of Blue Coat Systems.

The Blue Coat appliances enable enterprises to cost effectively reduce traffic on the WAN with secure direct Internet connections. By eliminating the need to backhaul all Internet and external application traffic over the WAN, enterprises can efficiently deliver internal business-critical applications without the cost of increasing bandwidth capacity.

To secure direct Internet connections at the branch office, the Blue Coat ProxyAV 210 utilizes the same malware detection and policy enforcement technologies that are used to protect corporate Internet gateways. The Blue Coat ProxyAV 210 supports branch offices with up to 100 users.

To provide up-to-date protection against the latest malware threats, update intervals ranging from 5 to 30 minutes can be set by the network administrator. In addition, the ProxyAV 210 appliances provide inline malware detection for Web-based threats that are hidden behind user credentials, such as web mail, file downloads and social networking sites.