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The Blue Coat CacheFlow appliance enables service providers to manage dramatic increases in network traffic and subscriber growth. Utilizing highly effective Web caching technology, CacheFlow appliances save bandwidth on expensive international links and backhaul traffic, while improving the end-user Web experience. Through a scalable architecture of cache farms, service providers can accelerate the delivery of rich Web 2.0 content, large files and video. This significantly reduces infrastructure costs by controlling bandwidth consumption while improving customer satisfaction.
Key Benefits:
- Save Bandwidth
- Accelerate Web 2.0 and Rich Media Delivery
- Ensure Caching Effectiveness
- Filter and Secure Web Traffic
- Scale with User and Traffic Growth
- Manage and Report on Web Traffic
- Carrier-class Service and Support
- Save bandwidth. By caching content in-region and closer to the user, the CacheFlow appliance drastically reduces bandwidth consumption. This translates into a rapid return on investment and significant long-term cost savings for service providers on international bandwidth, as well as reducing backhaul traffic on domestic links.
- Accelerate Web 2.0 and Rich Media Delivery. CacheFlow enables you to cache popular, rich media and Web 2.0 sites, including file-sharing and video sites. Caching saves on bandwidth while boosting the user experience.
- Ensure Caching Effectiveness. CacheFlow leverages Blue Coat CachePulse™ for automatic, network-based updates as the Web changes to ensure the appliance effectively caches content and consistently delivers high bandwidth savings.
- Filter and Secure Web Traffic. By turning on the built-in Blue Coat WebFilter™ option, CacheFlow filters and secures web traffic, including undesirable content and malware-infected sites. CacheFlow also allows you to create customized exception and block lists for specific sites, as well as leverage the Internet Watch Foundation list to filter illegal content.
- Scale with User and Traffic Growth. CacheFlow was designed for high throughput service provider environments with the ability to scale to multi-gigabit support through the use of cache farms. CacheFlow offers both 1GigE and 10GigE interfaces for high-speed network infrastructure requirements and tight integration with load-balancing switches for greater scalability and performance.
- Manage and Report on Web Traffic. CacheFlow provides an intuitive Web-based management console and command-line tools for administering the appliance. For ongoing monitoring, CacheFlow integrates via SNMP with common network management solutions and supports event logging via syslog.
- Carrier-class Service and Support. Global 24/7 support options are available for the CacheFlow appliance. The appliance is supported by a dedicated team of service provider experts at Blue Coat, plus the appliance includes built-in features so support can proactively mitigate issues and expedite resolution.
