Blue Coat supplies a solution for every industry...

For Businesses:

In a hyper-competitive, global economic environment, financial companies must look for new ways to lower costs without compromising security or business efficiency. Now financial companies have an easier way to manage the costs of delivering secure applications across the distributed enterprise. The Application Delivery Network (ADN) offers a proven way to accelerate network applications by optimizing network resources from top to bottom. By combining WAN Optimization, Secure Web Gateway and Application Performance Monitoring technologies into one complete infrastructure, the ADN enables financial institutions to:  

• Ensure users can securely access critical information anytime, anywhere.
• Accelerate applications to branch offices across their distributed network.
• Control costs by maximizing existing network resources.
• Maintain compliance with all government regulations.

For Education:

With so much competition for limited school funding, how can your district afford the online learning tools students need to succeed in a global economy? Even if your budget covers the initial software and hardware purchases, the cost of maintaining network performance and security can prevent you from making the most of these applications. In addition, you face tougher compliance standards with state and federal privacy laws. How can you do it all?

The Application Delivery Network (ADN) can help. The ADN provides a comprehensive application delivery infrastructure that combines WAN Optimization, Secure Web Gateway and Application Performance Monitoring technologies. Together, these capabilities enable you to:

• Accelerate critical learning applications across your distributed network.
• Lower costs by maximizing all your network resources.
• Protect confidential student and employee records from loss, theft or corruption.
• Control recreational network use that threatens network performance and data security.

For Government:

No matter which branch of government you serve, one thing is true: you have to control spending. But you also have deliver reliable access to essential online services, protect your constituents’ personal, medical, financial and other data, and comply with all state and federal laws governing privacy and information access. All without significantly increasing your agency’s technology budget. How can you do it?

The Application Delivery Network (ADN) infrastructure is a good place to start. The ADN offers a comprehensive approach to application delivery by combining WAN Optimization, Secure Web Gateway and Application Performance Monitoring technologies in a single infrastructure. With the ADN, you can:

• Save taxpayer money by leveraging underutilized resources
• Secure and accelerate network applications and critical online services
• see all the applications and users on the network
• Protect government and citizen information from malware and other Internet threats

For Service Providers:

For today’s service providers (SPs), maintaining a profitable business is tougher than ever. To stay competitive, you have to:

• Better manage bandwidth and consolidate your infrastructure to reduce costs.
• Offer a consistently reliable and interactive user experience to drive customer loyalty.
• Stop malware that can compromise user data or disrupt the network.
• Meet consumer demand to filter harmful or inappropriate Web content.
• Grow your business with high-value managed services.

The Blue Coat Application Delivery Network (ADN) infrastructure can help you solve all these challenges. The ADN provides a service-oriented platform that allows SPs to enhance and personalize the Web experience, reduce operational costs and create new opportunities for monetizing network traffic through revenue-generation services. With the ADN, you can leverage industry-leading WAN Optimization, Secure Web Gateway and Application Performance Monitoring technologies to deliver the fast, secure Web applications your customers demand.

Blue Coat is the technology leader in application delivery networking. Serving eight of the ten largest global SPs, Blue Coat is uniquely qualified to deliver the SP-class solutions you need today. Find out how companies like Vodafone, AT&T, Telefonica, BT, Orange Business Services and many others are delivering greater application performance and security with Blue Coat.

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