Blue Coat Systems, Inc. designs, develops, and sells products and services that secure and optimize the delivery of business applications and other information to distributed users over a wide area network (WAN) or the public Internet/Web. The companys products include ProxySG Appliance that serves as the foundation for secure Web gateway products and WAN Optimization offerings; ProxySG Virtual Appliance, a software that provides WAN optimization functionality; CacheFlow 5000 Appliance for telecommunications service providers; Blue Coat ProxyAV Appliance to use with ProxySG appliances to provide inline threat protection and malware scanning of Web content at the Internet gateway; and Blue Coat WebFilter Software, a content filtering database that operates on ProxySG appliance and includes client-based software for remote workers. Its products also include Blue Coat Reporter Software that collects data and generates pre-defined and custom reports to provide an IT administrator with better visibility into the enterprises Web-related user activity; Blue Coat Director Appliance, which enables an IT administrator to centrally manage an enterprises Blue Coat ProxySG appliances; Blue Coat PacketShaper Appliance that helps IT administrators to monitor applications running on the enterprises network to obtain information on its LAN/WAN/Internet traffic; Blue Coat IntelligenceCenter Software, which provides application performance monitoring for PacketShaper appliances deployed across the distributed enterprise; and Blue Coat PolicyCenter Software that helps IT administrators to centrally manage the configuration, policy management, software distribution, and adaptive response tracking of a distributed PacketShaper environment. The company was formerly known as CacheFlow, Inc. and changed its name to Blue Coat Systems, Inc. in August 2002. Blue Coat Systems was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.