Blue Coat Extends Lead in WAN Optimization Market for Second Straight Quarter

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it extended its lead in the Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization market for the second straight quarter, according to the latest market share report from Infonetics Research. Blue Coat also increased its market share nearly seven percentage points to 31.4 percent in the second quarter from 24.8 percent a year ago.

"Our expanding market share position is a strong validation that enterprises value the Blue Coat approach to WAN optimization that accelerates only relevant, business-critical applications while mitigating the impact of unwanted or recreational applications,” said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president of worldwide marketing and corporate development. "Blue Coat appliances deliver intelligent acceleration that enables enterprises to optimize their WANs according to business priorities without additional investments in bandwidth.”

Infonetics Research forecasts that the WAN optimization appliance market will grow by 50 percent over the next three years from 953 million in 2009 to $1.4 billion in 2012.

WAN optimization is a foundational technology in the Blue Coat Application Delivery Network (ADN) infrastructure. By combining visibility, acceleration and security technologies, the Blue Coat ADN infrastructure enables network managers to optimize and secure the delivery of applications across the distributed enterprise.

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Blue Coat Systems is the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking. Blue Coat offers an Application Delivery Network Infrastructure that provides the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. This application intelligence enables enterprises to tightly align network investments with business requirements, speed decision making and secure business applications for long-term competitive advantage. For additional information, please visit www.bluecoat.com.

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