Tuesday, 13 November 2007

Korean Line Deploys Blue Coat for WAN Optimization

Korean Line Corporation (KLC), has selected Blue Coat ProxySG appliances to accelerate the delivery of applications and content across its Wide Area Network (WAN) between the company’s Seoul headquarters and its overseas offices in Shanghai and Singapore.

With Blue Coat ProxySG appliances, KLC said it will be able to reduce file download time from over 10 minutes to approximately 6 to 7 seconds.

In addition, by installing the same application access environment, it looks forward to enhanced work productivity between its headquarters and Shanghai. The Shanghai office previously faced difficulties in accesses the headquarters’ ERP system.

“KLC has to transfer a large volume of data across a long distance, and as KLC’s business expands overseas, we needed a solution that provides the same application access environment with headquarters for our remote employees,” said Yu Jae-gil, information system team manager for KLC.

“Blue Coat ProxySG appliances enable us to provide optimized application performance for our employees located around the world, enhancing their work environment.”

Blue Coat ProxySG appliances utilize the company’s MACH5 patent-pending framework of acceleration technologies designed to accelerate all key enterprise applications, including: Web and secure Web applications (SSL), file services, email/Microsoft Exchange and live streaming and on-demand video. With the addition of MACH5 acceleration technologies, Blue Coat ProxySG appliances enable organizations to manage user/application interactions—to stop undesirable applications, regulate less important applications and accelerate critical applications, even when application traffic is encrypted using SSL.

“We are pleased to provide a solution to KLC that dramatically optimizes their WAN for accelerating business-critical applications and reducing bandwidth consumption,” said Kim Jong-duck, country manager, Blue Coat Korea.