Blue Coat completes acquisition of NetCache assets from Network Appliance

Notes and media contacts

Conference Call & Webcast
The Company will host a conference call on October 2, 2006 to provide updated revenue guidance. An audio Webcast of the call will also be available at: http://www.bluecoat.com/aboutus/investor_relations.

About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat's family of appliances and client-based solutions - deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers - provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance between users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 25,000 appliances worldwide and is ranked #1 by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery segment. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200.

For more information, please contact:
Blue Coat
Dubai Internet City, Cannon building 9, office 313
P.O. Box 72377
Dubai - UAE
Tel: (971-4) 391-1620
FAX: (971-4) 391-1635

For media requests, please contact:
Layth Dajani
The CONTENT Factory
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