Blue Coat Proxy Server

What is a reverse proxy?

Blue Coat Proxy servers

provide the basis for a robust and flexible Web communications solution. In addition to Web policy management, content filtering, blocking, web content virus scanning and network protection, companies can implement what is known as a reverse proxy to front end their Web applications. Implementing a reverse proxy with a ProxySG has the following advantages:

The Blue Coat Proxy Server ProxySG terminates the session with the client and establishes another session with the Web server
The Blue Coat Proxy Server ProxySG terminates the session with the client and establishes another session with the Web server
An administrator can implement granular policies with authentication, authorization and logging
A company can achieve higher performance benefits with caching

A BlueCoat Proxy Server ProxySG with flexible advanced forwarding architecture coupled with caching provides organizations a best of breed solution to leverage their network.

Implementing a reverse proxy solution with Blue Coat
Reverse proxy with the

Blue Coat Proxy servers

provides flexibility to network administrators in defining scalable proxy hierarchy designs. The following key features can be implemented:

Forwarding to an upstream Web Server
Load balancing of multiple Web Servers
L3, L4 and L7 health checks of the upstream Web Servers

There are three steps to implement Advanced Forwarding for each of these designs:

Configure Advanced Forwarding hosts
Configure Advanced Forwarding rules
Test the configuration