Blue Coat MACH5 S200 Network Security/Firewall Appliance

Great performance shouldn't be limited to certain applications, or certain users, or certain times of the day. That is why MACH5 goes beyond traditional WAN optimization solutions and dramatically improves the performance of virtually all applications and workflows -from file transfers to backups, email, databases, video, and cloud applications. A cornerstone product of the Symantec Network Performance Optimization solutions, the MACH5 S200, S400 and S500 families combine optimization features such as protocol acceleration, compression, and caching to deliver high performance across IPv4 or IPv6 environments. And they deploy at the network core or the branch to assure that every user, everywhere experiences the superior performance they expect.

Acceleration

• Protocol Optimization: Accelerate application performance by mitigating the penalties that latency imposes on inefficient protocols or applications originally architected for the LAN and running on the WAN
• Object Caching: Dramatically accelerate web application and workflows that depend on centrally-stored files by delivering remote content locally in the branch
• Byte Caching: Reduce the effects of latency, and significantly reduce bandwidth consumption for repetitive data elements, even across disparate applications, transmitted over the WAN
• Compression: Reduce the effect of latency, and reduce bandwidth consumption for any compressible data transiting the WAN
• Bandwidth Management: Ensure productivity by prioritizing enterprise-critical data flows over bulk-data or recreational traffic
• Video Optimization: Stream splitting, video pre-population and video caching can save up to 99.99% of bandwidthMobile User Optimization: Productivity enhancement for mobile and home users with Blue Coat ProxyClient

• HTTP, CIFS, SSL, FTP, Encrypted MAPI, MAPI, P2P, MMS, RTMP, RTMPE, RTSP, QuickTime, SCPS, TCP-Tunnel, DNS
• Provide LAN-like application performance to remote users and branch offices
• Deliver outstanding performance for streaming audio, video and other rich media applications
• Bandwidth management on all acceleration services
• Accelerate live and on-demand rich media, as well as SSLencrypted traffic
• Control encrypted traffic for all users and applications inside and outside the enterprise
• Reduce recurring network bandwidth costs with multiple levels of compression and content caching

• Secure object-based operating system with small footprint
• High-speed caching with advanced object pipelining and adaptive refresh
• Built-in pass-through network card, compression services, bandwidth management and SSL off loading

• Active/Active bridging support using virtual IP addressing for failover and remote installations
• Completely transparent when tunneling applications between appliances, maintaining IP and port information for traffic management
• Native support for advanced clustering for near limitless scalability, without additional load balancing appliances
• Routing configurations for gateway, route tables, RIP, DNS, and WCCP, with support for asymmetric routing of application delivery tunnels
• Health checks performed on a forwarding host or external servers to verify status and availability of device
• View & submit service requests via the Symantec management interface