Microsoft Office uses the Common Internet File System protocol (CIFS) to open, save and manage documents between the user’s computer and the server. However, CIFS does not always run efficiently over the WAN, so remote and branch office users often struggle with slow application performance and decreased productivity.

To help your Microsoft Office applications run at top speed across the WAN, Blue Coat uses protocol optimization and object caching to help overcome the performance shortcomings of CIFS on the WAN. In addition, Blue Coat’s MACH5 byte caching and compression technologies further improve and accelerate any CIFS application — delivering significant performance gains for Word, Excel or PowerPoint.

Using Blue Coat, you can:

• Achieve 109X or greater improvement for operations using MS Office.
• Reduce bandwidth utilization by 99 percent or more for CIFS.
• Improve user productivity, offload file servers and allow users to work directly over the WAN.