Blue Coat today announced the release of its next-generation CacheFlow 5000 appliance, which delivers a significant leap forward in performance and capacity — more than three times greater throughput and cache storage compared to the previous version — in the same compact, 4U footprint. The new CacheFlow appliance is available immediately and includes IPv6 support to address the advanced networking requirements of large service provider customers.Read More…

Blue Coat announced that Lebanon’s leading Internet service provider, Lebanon Online S.A.R.L. has deployed the its CacheFlow 5000 appliance to substantially reduce its operational expenses by cutting bandwidth spend, manage sizeable increases in network traffic and subscriber growth, enhance Web security and optimize and enhance the delivery of rich Web 2.0 content, large files and video. Lebanon Online expects the return on its investment in CacheFlow appliances to be less than six months, based upon bandwidth savings alone. Read More…