Blue Coat launches the industry's first IPv6 WAN optimization solution

Li Qing, Chief Scientist and IPv6 expert at Blue Coat, said: "IPv6 poses major challenges for enterprises and service providers-from traffic visualization and access control to security and WAN optimization. Blue Coat has solved many of these challenges. The latest Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization feature for IPv6 improves our capabilities to help enterprises smoothly transition to the future environment. "

Unlike WAN optimization solutions for competitors that can only provide basic data compression for IPv6 packets, Blue Coat MACH5 devices run at the application layer across IPv4 and IPv6 environments. It maintains application-level optimization for CIFS, MAPI, HTTP, SSL, RTMP, RTSP, and other specific applications. When IPv6 content and applications are encountered, competitor's WAN optimization acceleration technology will not be able to run, because IPv6 will force them to close the optimization of most specific applications. Now, IPv4 addresses are exhausted and people will gradually move to IPv6. Enterprises, organizations, and service providers must plan to manage, protect, and optimize IPv6 content and applications across heterogeneous network infrastructure, including IPv4 and IPv6.

Shen Qiang, product marketing manager of Blue Coat System Corporation Greater China, said: "Blue Coat is proud to provide the first truly IPv6 WAN optimization solution. Our progress in solving these complex network problems reflects our leading position in the industry and technology. "

Blue Coat WAN optimization devices provide users with a powerful and flexible solution to provide advanced technology for networks, clouds, and video applications, optimize file access, email, storage, and backup. They provide a complete set of WAN optimization functions, greatly accelerating response time and reducing bandwidth consumption by using industry-leading compression, protocol optimization, byte cache, and object cache technologies. This device integrates cache and video streaming, greatly reducing the network load of on-demand and live video from the network or internal servers. Blue Coat WAN optimization devices allow video to be expanded within the enterprise and withstand "video flood"-these videos will crowd out key business traffic optimized by traditional WAN optimization devices. In addition, the device can accelerate content and applications from the public network without Cloud deployment of other devices. By accelerating internal and network applications for branches and mobile users, the Blue Coat WAN optimization solution improves the efficiency of the entire distributed enterprise.

Blue Coat WAN optimization solution is also the industry's first IPv6 Security Network Gateway that supports application, service and content security and seamless migration between IPv4 and IPv6 environments, blue Coat WAN optimization Devices Act as the intelligent intermediary between requests and content, making applications, services, and data retrieval in IPv4 and IPv6 environments transparent to users. To minimize network Interference and simplify the migration process, Blue Coat WAN optimization devices always implement enterprise IT policies across IPv4 and IPv6 applications and content, it helps enterprises Stay Away From address translation, rewriting applications, or upgrading basic network infrastructure to achieve business process consistency.

As part of the latest operating system software for Blue Coat MACH5 WAN optimization devices, IPv6 will be available for free. For more information, please contact: ipv6@bluecoat.com.