Blue Coat PolicyCenter

PolicyCenter Overview:

Centralized Management for Blue Coat PacketShaper Appliances

Effectively managing bandwidth and accelerating application performance does not have to get more complicated as your WAN grows and becomes more distributed. PolicyCenter from Blue Coat makes it easy to maintain optimum performance. Whether you have a few PacketShaper® appliances located at one site or thousands distributed around the world, PolicyCenter brings comprehensive control to your fingertips. Leverage the superior scalability and ease-of-use of PolicyCenter to ensure that application performance and bandwidth utilization stay aligned with the changing demands of your business.

Easy, Secure, Powerful

PolicyCenter has an intuitive, centralized interface that is organized to match the way you work, making it easy to:

• Auto-deploy and configure appliances at remote locations in minutes
• Control performance with easy-to-apply partitions and policies
• Distribute traffic classes and software upgrades globally
• Monitor and quickly respond to network, application and unit performance changes
• Secure access to devices and log configuration changes and activity using AAA features

Optimization Made Easy

PolicyCenter makes it easy to maintain optimal performance by providing a comprehensive, integrated view of all PacketShaper appliances, network traffic, links and partitions. An intuitive, color-coded summary empowers you to proactively identify potential problems at a glance. Fully leverage Adaptive Response features within PacketShaper to take appropriate corrective actions quickly.

Plug-and-Play Deployments

PolicyCenter greatly simplifies remote, multi-unit deployments by automatically completing the settings and configuration process. Simply connect additional PacketShaper appliances to your network and assign them the appropriate appliance name, IP address, subnet mask, gateway and policy. Configuration is just that easy.

Enterprise Security and Scalability

Security features, supporting LDAP, allow you to to define logins, roles and create a hierarchy to match your organization and its security policies. Audit trails tell you what changes have been made, when and by whom. No matter how distributed your network, you can manage large communities of PacketShapers from a single location. Multiple tier configurations further increase scalability. The user interface, being based on sophisticated rendering technology, provides high-performance management for even the largest of PacketShaper communities.

Features:

• Wide variety of centralized mechanisms to control performance, including dynamic partitions and subpartitions, rate control, and never-admit, ignore and discard policies
• Flexible configuration overrides for location-specific settings
• Hierarchical configurations sharable by multiple PacketShaper appliances
• Scheduled distribution of PacketShaper software upgrades and plug-ins
• Trial and rollback modes let you push new PacketShaper configurations that just work the first time
• Centralized view of Adaptive Response status for thousands of PacketShaper appliances
• Comprehensive, centralized network management solution when combined with IntelligenceCenter
• AAA features provide secure, logged access

Benefits:

• Manage your entire network through a single, intuitive interface
• Control thousands of PacketShaper appliances from one console
• Auto-deploy and configure multiple remote appliances in minutes
• Apply unique policies based on location, function or other defined criteria
• Reduce administrative overhead and lower total cost of ownership

Software Specifications:

Ensure that application performance and bandwidth utilization stay aligned with changing business demands across the whole network. Exert comprehensive network control with centralized configuration, policy management, software distribution and Adaptive Response tracking for multi-unit PacketShaper deployments.

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