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SCALABLE, CARRIER-GRADE SOLUTIONS FROM BROCADE AND BLUE COATIntegrating Blue Coat CacheFlow with Brocade ADX solutions gives service providers scalable, redundant, carrier-grade architecture that helps them save significantly on bandwidth and backhaul traffic. Service providers, including ISPs and Mobile Operators, are challenged to maintain profitability in extremely competitive markets. They need to achieve quicker return on investment (ROI) while delivering a consistently fast and reliable web experience. Brocade ServerIron ADX solutions and Blue Coat CacheFlow appliances combine to provide a service-oriented platform that offers compelling ROI and will enable value-added, differentiated revenue-generating services in the future.

The Brocade and CacheFlow Solution

The joint solution helps service providers to contain costs and manage growth in subscriber numbers and network traffic while delivering a fast, reliable and secure web experience.

The Blue Coat CacheFlow 5000 uses next-generation web caching technology to save bandwidth on expensive international links and on backhaul traffic. Through a scalable architecture of cache farms, service providers can accelerate the delivery of rich Web 2.0 content, large files, video and general web traffic. Controlling bandwidth consumption significantly reduces infrastructure costs while improving customer satisfaction.

Brocade ServerIron ADX switches provide industry-leading Layer 2-7 switching performance that enables highly secure and scalable application service infrastructure. The switches efficiently distribute unified application services by measuring server utilization and connection load in real time. This visibility enables you to manage application performance, security, and service delivery. Web applications run more efficiently and with higher availability streamlining operations, increasing business agility, significantly reducing costs, and helping you support growth.

To build networking support for caching, you need Layer 2 switching, Layer 3 functionality such as policy-based routing, and Layer 7 application delivery for scaling the CacheFlow 5000 solution. Using multiple vendors to support caching infrastructure creates network complexity. Brocade, on the other hand, offers a complete Layer 2-7 functionality that includes:

Low-latency switching

Policy-based routing

Transparent cache switching

Brocade is experienced in the deployment of large numbers of end-to-end networking solutions in Telco environments. All Brocade equipment is managed by Brocade IronView Network Manager (INM) software. The solution includes:

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Brocade TurboIron

A Layer 2 device is required for the 10 GbE interconnect among all the devices in the CacheFlow design. The Brocade TurboIron Series switch supports Layer 2 10 GbE fiber or copper (depending on the model of SFP+ used) with low latency (less than 1.5 uS). It interfaces seamlessly with the ServerIron ADX and CacheFlow. The TurboIron is built for use with mission-critical data. It offers high availability with redundant load sharing; hotswappable, sensing/switching power supplies; and triplefan assembly.

Brocade ServerIron

Transparent Cache Switching (TCS) The TCS feature in Brocade ServerIron allows network administrators to quickly deploy CacheFlow devices anywhere in the network with no modification to end-user browsers or other software. Brocade ServerIron devices are configured in a high-availability, session-synchronized pair, ensuring that a failure of one unit will not result in session loss. ServerIron ADX switches improve service availability by implementing cache health checking. They redirect client requests to the next available CacheFlow device or directly to the origin server in the event of a CacheFlow or farm failure.

Intelligent Application Content Inspection and Switching

The ServerIron ADX provides a powerful way to create rules, policies and configurations for application traffic management operations at both Layer 4 and Layer 7. This includes server and application load balancing, health monitoring, inspection, switching, redirection, persistence, and content transformation. Brocade ServerIron ADX can provide persistence based on requested URLs using L7 content switching (CSW) with TCS, then hash-based persistence on the requested URL for CacheFlow device selection.

Brocade NetIron XMR

The Brocade NetIron XMR Series of Internet backbone routers provide unparalleled performance (up to 2 billion PPS) in a multi-terabit architecture. These routers offer highly scalable IPv4/IPv6 routing, fast BGP convergence, PBR, and advanced MPLS capabilities such as MPLS VPNs. They provide industry-leading wire-speed 10 GbE and POS port density, and are ideal for Internet backbones and service provider cores.

About Brocade

From enterprise data centers to the service provider core, Brocade develops extraordinary networking solutions that connect the worlds most important information. Delivered directly and through global partners, these solutions help todays data-intensive organizations operate more efficiently and maximize the business value of their data.

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About Blue Coat

Blue Coat empowers enterprises to safely and securely choose the best applications, services, devices, data sources, and content the world has to offer, so they can create, communicate, collaborate, innovate, execute, compete and win in their markets. Blue Coat is the trusted by 86 percent of the FORTUNE Global 500.

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Joint Solution Highlights

Scalable, best-of-breed, carrier-grade caching infrastructure

Seamless interoperability between Brocade ADX and Blue Coat CacheFlow

Redundancy and scalability for farms of Blue Coat CacheFlow appliances

Advanced health-check features between Brocade ADX and Blue Coat CacheFlow appliances that protect against overload situations

Full feature functionality for Layer 2-7 networking requirements, delivered by Brocade