Introducing MACH5 - Multiprotocol Accelerated Caching Hierarchy

The MACH5 patent-pending framework of acceleration technologies is designed to accelerate all key enterprise applications, including: Web and secure Web applications (SSL), file services, email/Microsoft Exchange, video—live streaming and on-demand, and any TCP-based application. Since MACH5 is integrated with the Blue Coat platform, it enables organizations to manage all of their user/application interactions—to stop undesirable applications, throttle less important applications and accelerate critical applications, even when encrypted within SSL.

 Mach5 Datasheet

The MACH5 framework can apply its five acceleration techniques appropriately across the range of key enterprise applications. The technologies include:

• Bandwidth management-prioritizes traffic for a particular application by ordering of traffic and the amount of bandwidth allocated to an application
• Protocol optimization - takes "chatty", "request and wait" protocols that are inefficient over the WAN—including Common Internet File System (CIFS), Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI), HTTP, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and HTTPS—and makes them more efficient. Optimization includes sending in parallel those communications usually sent serially
• Object caching -stores a copy of commonly requested or anticipated objects locally so that they do not have to be transmitted more than once across the WAN; objects can be updated when a change occurs with only the changed portion sent over the WAN
• Byte caching - Blue Coat's unique technology for highly efficient data reduction and caching which is based on seeing repetitive patterns in sub-application-object bits of information; these patterns can be represented by a token, and only the token has to traverse the WAN. Byte caching can represent multiple megabytes of data with just a few bytes. A token of just a few bytes can represent a block as large as 64 KB.
• Compression - applies an established algorithm to remove extraneous or predictable information from traffic before it is transmitted; the information is reconstituted at the destination using the same algorithm