Foundry Networks, Inc., a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, and Blue Coat Systems, Inc., the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, announced on Thursday that Internet Services Unit (ISU), an Internet service provider in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has deployed Blue Coat ProxySG appliances and the Foundry ServerIron to provide users with a high-quality experience. The joint solution optimizes ISU's network to accelerate the delivery of requested content to users throughout Saudi Arabia. “By adding Foundry ServerIron traffic controllers and Blue Coat appliances, we can provide reliable, consistent application delivery, security and an excellent user experience for our customers,” said Hani Al-Thubaiti, network operations center manager for Internet Services Unit Saudi Arabia. “As content demand grows with our customer base, this powerful and scalable solution allows us to simply slide in another Blue Coat appliance and configure the ServerIron switch to use the new resource.” For service providers, Blue Coat ProxySG appliances offload processing functions from its servers to speed application delivery and protect the network from potential threats. To optimize network performance, Foundry's ServerIrons load balance traffic across the server farm, increasing application availability and scalability. Deployed in tandem, Foundry's ServerIrons efficiently balance traffic across multiple Blue Coat ProxySG appliances, allowing service providers to scale its network bandwidth up to multiple trunked 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) connections to dynamically increase bandwidth as data traffic increases. To reduce management costs, service providers can add additional ProxySG appliances as they grow, without configuration changes. To improve the end-user experience by reducing application response times, Blue Coat ProxySG appliances cache content, including video, locally to speed delivery to end-users. Foundry's ServerIron Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) then directs users to the closest location to retrieve the requested content improving efficiency to minimize latency.
