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Encyclopedia > Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
Image:bclogo.png
Type Public (NASDAQ BCSI)
Founded 1996
Headquarters Sunnyvale, California
Key people CEO: Brian NeSmith
Industry Technology
Products Networking, Proxy Servers, Web cache, WAFS, WAN Optimization, SSL VPN
Employees 500+ (April 2006)
Slogan Secure and Accelerate Your Business.
Website www.bluecoat.com

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The Blue Coat SG appliance family runs the purpose-built SGOS operating system as a proxy server for 15 protocols, including HTTP, FTP, SSL (forward and reverse), CIFS, MAPI, Telnet, SOCKS, P2P, Microsoft Media Services, RTSP, QuickTime, AOL IM, Yahoo IM, MSN Messenger, and TCP-Tunnel. SG appliances include a policy engine for control and security. Blue Coat SG appliances' MACH5 (Multi-Protocol Accelerated Caching Hierarchy) technology accelerates WAN traffic through bandwidth management, protocol optimization (e.g., CIFS proxy), object caching, byte caching (of file components), and data compression. An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... HTTP (for HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the primary method used to convey information on the World Wide Web. ... FTP or File Transfer Protocol is used to transfer data from one computer to another over the Internet, or through a network. ... Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), its successor, are cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet. ... Server message block (SMB) is a network protocol mainly applied to share files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. ... MAPI is an acronym for Messaging Application Programming Interface. ... TELNET (TELetype NETwork) is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area network (LAN) connections. ... SOCKS is an Internet protocol that allows client-server applications to transparently use the services of a network firewall. ... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... Microsofts streaming server Microsoft Media Services (also called NetShow Services) uses the Microsoft Media Server (MMS) protocol to transfer unicast data. ... RTSP is the Real Time Streaming Protocol developed by the IETF and published in 1998 as RFC 2326. ... QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. ... AIM redirects here. ... Categories: Computer stubs | Mac OS instant messengers | Windows instant messengers | Yahoo! ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... WAN MEANS WHAT A NOOB BY ZACH THE GOOSE EPPS AKA FOUNDER OF WAN Look up wan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In computer networking, bandwidth management is the process of measuring and controlling the communications (traffic, packets) on a network link, to avoid filling the link to capacity or overfilling the link, which would result in congestion and poor performance. ... Server message block (SMB) is a network protocol mainly applied to share files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. ... This article is about the computer term. ... In computer science and information theory, data compression or source coding is the process of encoding information using fewer bits (or other information-bearing units) than an unencoded representation would use through use of specific encoding schemes. ...


The Blue Coat AV appliance family integrates with SG appliances via an extended ICAP+ connection intended for enterprise gateway virus scanning with low average latency. Blue Coat AV stops spyware as well, and supports scanning engines from Kaspersky Lab, McAfee, Sophos, Ahn Lab, and Panda Software. Internet Content Accessibility Protocol (ICAP) is a lightweight HTTP based protocol designed to off-load specific content to dedicated servers. ... Latency is a time delay between the moment something is initiated, and the moment one of its effects begins. ... A large number of toolbars, some added by spyware, overwhelm an Internet Explorer session. ... Kaspersky Anti-Virus, version 5. ... McAfee, Inc. ... Sophos is a company that makes security software such as anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and Network Access Control for desktops, e-mail servers, and other network gateways. ... This article or section reads like an advertisement. ...


The Blue Coat RA appliance family provides encrypted, on-demand, agentless access to Web and non-Web applications.


Blue Coat WebFilter is a content filtering service that categorizes domain names, directories and IP addresses for policy enforcement and security. Blue Coat’s ‘Dynamic Real-Time Rating (DRTR)’, uses artificial intelligence to attempt to categorize new Web pages the first time a user requests access. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The term domain name has multiple related meanings: A name that is entered into a computer (e. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Hondas humanoid robot AI redirects here. ...


WinProxy is a desktop proxy server which allows users to share an internet connection, similar to Microsoft's Internet Connection Sharing. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Microsoft is one of few companies engaging itself in the console wars Where they are up against sony, nintendo, and of course sharps new console which may cause a threat. ... Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) is the name given by Microsoft to a feature in newer versions of its Windows operating system (as of Windows 98 Second Edition) for sharing a single Internet connection on one computer between other computers on the same local area network. ...


K9 Web Protection is desktop-based content control software which uses Blue Coat WebFilter to provide homes with Internet filtering. K9 Web Protection is a desktop-based content-control software program created by Blue Coat Systems, similar to NetNanny, CyberSitter, or ContentProtect. ... DansGuardian blocking whitehouse. ...


Software history

Blue Coat appliances use a purpose-built microkernel operating system called ‘SGOS’, which traces its lineage to the Thoth research OS created at the University of Waterloo, Canada in 1976. Thoth is generally considered the first of the real-time message passing operating systems, whose descendants include QNX and ‘V-Kernel’. Thoth evolved into the Port OS and language between 1982 and 1990, which produced Hayes LANstep in the early 1990’s. In 1996 CacheFlow (later renamed Blue Coat Systems) created the CacheOS to drive proxy server Web acceleration appliances. This microkernel architecture was chosen for its process efficiency. In 2002, a policy engine was added and the OS name changed to SGOS (for “secure gateway”). SGOS’ hardened architecture and kernel are in no way based on Microsoft Windows, Unix or Linux code. SGOS later passed certifications from NIAP Evaluation Assurance Level 2, FIPS 140-2, and ICSA. Graphical overview of a microkernel A microkernel is a minimal computer operating system kernel providing only basic operating system services (system calls), while other services (commonly provided by kernels) are provided by user-space programs called servers. ... An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... The University of Waterloo, also known as UW, UWaterloo, or simply, Waterloo is a medium-sized research-intensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. ... QNX (pronounced either Q-N-X or Q-nix) is a commercial POSIX-compliant Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family. ... The National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) is a United States government initiative to meet the security testing needs of both information technology consumers and producers which is operated by the National Security Agency (NSA) with participation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Defense Information Systems Agency... An Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) is an assurance requirement as defined by Common Criteria, an international standard in effect since 1999, to replace the ratings (e. ... The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2 [1], called Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules, is a United States security standard used to certify cryptographic modules, published in 2001. ... NCSA may refer to: the National Center for Supercomputing Applications the North Carolina School of the Arts This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...


Financial history

Blue Coat was founded in 1996 as CacheFlow, with Web acceleration from its Web cache as the primary offering. CacheFlow went public in November of 1999 at $26 per share and closed at $126 the first day. CacheFlow was among the top-ten price jumps in IPO history. In 2001 the telecom recession caused CacheFlow to downsize and redesign its products. In the summer of 2002 the company changed its name to ‘Blue Coat Systems, Inc.’, and added policy control and security capability to Blue Coat appliances. Web caching is the caching of web documents (HTML pages, images, etc. ...


Acquisitions

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