Gammon Construction Deploys Blue Coat Application Delivery Network Infrastructure to Gain Visibility and Control

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Gammon Construction Limited (Gammon), one of Asia’s leading construction contractors, has deployed the Blue Coat^® Application Delivery Network infrastructure to align its network resources with business requirements across six offices and more than 50 construction sites throughout Southeast Asia.

Last year, Gammon deployed Blue Coat ProxySG^® and ProxyAV™ appliances in its Hong Kong headquarters and its regional offices in mainland China, Singapore and Macau to optimize and secure the delivery of business applications to its distributed workforce. In addition to accelerating the delivery of content and applications over the Wide Area Network (WAN) or Internet gateway, ProxySG and ProxyAV appliances also protect against malicious content. Now, Gammon has extended the deployment to include Blue Coat PacketShaper^® appliances in its Hong Kong headquarters.

With PacketShaper appliances Gammon has granular visibility into the applications running on its network, in-depth intelligence about those applications and the ability to apply policy-based controls to them. By introducing this level of application accountability, Gammon can now prioritize business-critical or latency-sensitive applications over other applications to speed response times and improve the user experience.

Together, Blue Coat PacketShaper and ProxySG appliances enable Gammon to accelerate applications across the Wide Area Network (WAN) while maintaining visibility into those applications. Legacy WAN optimization products treat all network traffic equally as a single indiscernible block. The integration between the ProxySG and PacketShaper appliances enables Gammon to discover, classify and apply quality of service policies and prioritization to the applications that have been optimized by the ProxySG appliances. This combined ability has reduced Gammon’s bandwidth consumption by 25 percent.

Gammon has also deployed Blue Coat ProxyClient™ software to accelerate the delivery of engineering diagrams and other critical files to remote workers from more than 50 construction sites. ProxyClient provides enforcement of the company’s Internet acceptable usage policy and protection against Web-based threats through the Blue Coat WebPulse™ collaborative cloud defense service regardless of location. All URL requests forwarded by ProxyClient are analyzed and categorized by WebPulse to detect threats and enable the consistent enforcement of corporate IT policies. Policies for ProxyClient are centrally managed from corporate headquarters to reduce management costs and enforce consistent policy compliance across the distributed enterprise.

"With a distributed workforce, protecting our employees and improving the delivery of critical applications requires centralized policies that can be implemented and enforced across all regional offices and remote workers,” said Horace Chu, Head of Information Management Services at Gammon. "Effective corporate IT policies can substantially reduce bandwidth consumption, and the Blue Coat application delivery solution provides us with the means to control and optimize our network.”

With more than 2,500 employees and six offices throughout Southeast Asia, Gammon is one of the largest construction contractors in the region and manages a wide range of projects, including commercial and residential properties, retail shopping malls, hotels and recreational facilities, railway, roads and bridges, logistics and underground projects.

"Gammon’s ongoing investment in the Blue Coat Application Delivery Network infrastructure validates the competitive advantages that the combination of visibility, acceleration and security technologies can bring to a distributed enterprise,” said Matt Young, vice president of the Asia Pacific region for Blue Coat Systems. "As Gammon continues to strive for operational excellence, the Blue Coat infrastructure will provide an enabling foundation that will allow the company to implement more efficient business processes, deliver new applications and maximize the return on networking investments.”

The Blue Coat Application Delivery Network infrastructure combines the visibility, acceleration and security technologies that enable distributed enterprises to align network and application resources with business requirements.

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