Blue Coat - The Leader in Application Delivery Network Infrastructure

Blue Coat is the most mature product in the Secure Web Gateway (SWG) market and is installed in more than 15,000 enterprises worldwide, including 81% of the Fortune Global 500. Solutions are more costly and complex than others and are designed for use in large enterprises and organizations.

The Blue Coat Application Delivery Network is a fundamental IT layer that addresses the demand for greater application mobility and security in a distributed enterprise. By combining three core capabilities — Application Performance Monitoring, WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway technologies — the Application Delivery Network helps organizations:

  • Accelerate and deliver business applications across the distributed enterprise.
  • Protect people and information from malicious network activity.
  • Classify and prioritize applications, content and user access in real time.
Key Advantages of the Blue Coat solutions vs. competitor products include –
  • Blue Coat has one of the biggest development and support teams in the market 
  • The acquisition of packeteer in 2008 will enhance its ability to enforce policies at an application level
  • The Blue Coat Proxy SG supports 9 filtering databases including its own and 4 anti-virus engines 



Blue Coat Application Performance Monitoring technologies produce the intelligence IT needs to identify and monitor all the traffic on their network, along with measuring and alerting them about incidents that impact end-user experience.

When network and server delays are the culprit of performance problems, utilize some of Blue Coats tools that will help IT get the applications back up to speed quickly:

  • Get end-to-end visibility across your distributed network
  • Prioritize the most important operations and users within complex environments such as Oracle and SAP
  • Understand and fix the source of network problems
  • Achieve ROI faster than with a homegrown solution
  • Increase capacity and efficiency of network links