Most corporate environments today have hundreds of applications running on the network at any given time. They all have different management issues, depending on the application type, and there is no one-size-fits-all technique to optimize performance across the board. In addition, recreational and peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic can consume essential bandwidth needed to power business applications. Do you know much WAN bandwidth is consumed by recreational traffic such as YouTube, Facebook and casual Web browsing? How can you prioritize bandwidth use to align network resources with business objectives?

To help you manage and optimize all your internal, external and real-time applications, Blue Coat offers a variety of bandwidth management technologies, including:

• Layer 7 traffic classification and discovery to precisely identify traffic
• Traffic shaping to control bandwidth utilization by application
• Compression and caching technologies to reduce bandwidth utilization
• Video stream-splitting to reduce bandwidth utilization

By applying the right combination of these technologies, Blue Coat helps you:

• Identify the types of applications on the network
• Determine the causes of slow application performance
• Prioritize business traffic when bandwidth is scarce
• Ensure top-quality application performance and a superior end-user experience across your enterprise