WAN optimization

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On June 25, 2007, Blue Coat Systems announced that Tyco Flow Control has selected Blue Coat ProxySG appliances to optimize its Wide Area Network (WAN) by securing and accelerating critical business applications between its international offices.

Tyco Flow Control's WAN connections were saturated and latency had become a significant performance issue. Branch and remote offices contended with slow response times for key applications.

By installing Blue Coat ProxySG appliances at its branch offices and data center, Tyco Flow Control, experienced reductions of up to 400% in the response time to download files and email attachments. In addition, the company's WAN links now only consume half as much bandwidth, with core applications dropping bandwidth consumption from over 100 kilobits per second to 10 kbps -- a 90% improvement.