Blue Coat Systems has introduced IPv6 secure web gateway offering to enable the migration of applications, services and content between IPv4 and IPv6 environments.
The company said that the new Blue Coat ProxySG appliance enables enterprises, government agencies and service providers to reduce costs and increase efficiencies by leveraging the technology advantages of IPv6. The in-built ProxySG appliance acts as a intermediary between requests and content and makes the retrieval of applications, services and data in either an IPv4 or IPv6 environment transparent to users.
In addition, Blue Coat ProxySG appliances enforce corporate IT policies across IPv4 and IPv6 applications and content spaces to minimise network disruption and simplify the migration. It frees organisations from the confines of IPv4 and allows them to begin deploying and utilising IPv6 applications over their existing network infrastructure by enabling the deployment of Ipv6, the company claims.
Qing Li, chief scientist and senior technologist at Blue Coat Systems, said: “The Blue Coat migration platform permits IPv4 and IPv6 to co-exist in the same infrastructure with little or no incremental overhead on existing clients, empowering organisations to leverage the best of both technologies simultaneously.
“By bridging the applications and services gap between the two domains, the Blue Coat solution affords organisations the same level of visibility, acceleration and security regardless of whether the content is delivered over IPv4 or IPv6.”
