Blue Coat Systems has launched Blue Coat MACH5 WAN Optimisation appliance, which the company says offers WAN acceleration and optimisation capabilities for IPv4 and IPv6 content and applications.
Blue Coat MACH5 WAN Optimisation appliances can work in a pure IPv4, IPv6 or mixed environment.
The appliance can also automatically and transparently solve the inherent incompatibility issue that arises when users, networks, devices, content and applications are mixed between IPv4 and IPv6, claims the company.
According to Blue Coat, unlike competitive WAN optimisation offerings, which can only provide basic data reduction for IPv6 packets, the Blue Coat MACH5 appliance works at the application level across both IPv4 and IPv6 environments.
It maintains application-level optimisations for CIFS, MAPI, HTTP, SSL, RTMP, RTSP, FTP and other application-specific optimisations.
Blue Coat WAN optimisation appliances also provide users with a solution for optimising file access, email, storage and backup while also providing advanced technologies for web, cloud and video applications.
They provide a set of WAN optimisation features that accelerate response time and reduce bandwidth consumption through the use of compression, protocol optimization, byte caching and object caching technologies.
The appliances have integrated caching and stream-splitting to reduce the network load of on-demand and live video from the Web or internal servers.
Blue Coat WAN optimisation appliances enable video to scale across the enterprise and protect against video floods that can overtake business-critical traffic optimised by traditional WAN optimisation appliances, claims the company.
Blue Coat WAN Optimisation appliances also enable the secure migration of applications, services and content between IPv4 and IPv6 environments.
The WAN optimisation appliance acts as an intermediary between requests and content, making the retrieval of applications, services and data in either an IPv4 or IPv6 environment transparent to users.
To minimise network disruption and simplify the migration, Blue Coat WAN optimisation appliances enforce corporate IT policies across IPv4 and IPv6 applications and content spaces.
