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Networx Australia Selects Blue Coat for Integrated WAN Optimization and Web Security to Managed Service Customers

Posted on: Monday, 11 December 2006, 09:00 CST

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Blue Coat(R) Systems , the leader in secure content and application delivery, today announced that Networx Australia, an innovative managed service provider for Australian enterprises and organizations, has selected Blue Coat SG appliances with MACH5 application acceleration technology for WAN optimization and Web security to its managed service customers. The SG appliances, located at the Networx operations center and at customer locations, reduce latency and minimize bandwidth consumption for customers, while also providing Web filtering and security. The resulting service significantly improves network and Internet performance for customers. It also enables Networx to cut its own operational costs and increase customer retention.

"The Internet Service Provider business in Australia is sharply competitive, but with the Blue Coat solution we have been able to differentiate our service through accelerated delivery of content and applications and also offer comprehensive Web filtering," said Mikael Haidar, chief information officer, Networx Australia. "Blue Coat SG appliances can simultaneously solve application latency issues, reduce bandwidth consumption and deliver security and control. The result is significantly faster and more reliable service for customers, important differentiation in a competitive market, increased customer retention and lower costs due to bandwidth reductions."

Networx Australia provides Wide Area Network (WAN) and Internet gateway links to its customers over fiber. The WAN links connect customer locations all over Australia and Internet access through a classic hub and spoke architecture from the operations center. Networx Australia has deployed Blue Coat SG appliances in its operations center, and they are beginning to deploy them in customer locations. In one deployment linking two customer sites, the use of SG appliances reduced remote Windows login and profile establishment from a 20-minute process to approximately 20 seconds. The solution also provides a huge increase in file sharing performance, Web-based applications and some SQL transactions. Using Blue Coat SG appliances, Networx customers have accelerated file transfers of important Excel spread sheets and other files utilizing the CIFS protocol up to 200 times faster. FTP file transfers now can run 20 times faster and require less bandwidth.

Networx Australia pays its upstream Internet provider for bandwidth usage. Because they can reduce their bandwidth consumption by as much as 80 percent with the Blue Coat solution, they can significantly reduce their own costs, while offering improved performance to customers. Blue Coat SG appliances provide the improvements through multiple technologies, including bandwidth management, compression and caching content at the operations center or locally at the customer site. These same technologies plus protocol optimization also reduce application latency.

"Blue Coat SG appliances accelerate applications and content, decrease bandwidth consumption and offer a complete platform for security and control," said Steve Mullaney, vice president of worldwide marketing for Blue Coat Systems. "We're pleased to help Networx Australia increase customer retention while lowering their costs at the same time."

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 30,000 appliances worldwide and is ranked #1 by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery market. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at 408-220-2200 or http://www.bluecoat.com/ .

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS: The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Blue Coat Systems' expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, and including statements regarding the capabilities and expected performance of Blue Coat Systems' products. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information available to Blue Coat Systems as of the date hereof, and Blue Coat Systems assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These and other risks relating to Blue Coat Systems' business are set forth in Blue Coat Systems' most recently filed Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 31, 2006 and Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2005, and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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