Milestone Systems: Blue Coat CacheFlow Web Caching for ISP's

If you're in an ISP and paying more than $25 per Mbps per month on bandwidth, consider Blue Coat's CacheFlow web caching solution. This network appliance enables you to significantly reduce infrastructure costs by controlling bandwidth consumption, AND improve the web experience for your customers.

  1. CacheFlow caches web content to reduce bandwidth usage -- up to 50% on general web traffic and typically even more on large files and video. How much can reducing bandwidth save your operation? Call Steve (toll-free) at 877-771-9510 for your free ROI calculation estimate.
  2. CacheFlow allows you to architect your production network to better manage traffic spikes and boost your customer satisfaction. High demand content (Facebook, YouTube videos, RapidShare file downloads) can get accessed faster by your subscribers. 
  3. CacheFlow provides a platform for future value-added services like security, web filtering, or reporting on web usage patterns so you can better understand your subscribers or generate new revenue.

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CacheFlow Key Benefits:

Save bandwidth. By caching content in-region and closer to the user, the CacheFlow appliance drastically reduces bandwidth consumption. This translates into a rapid return on investment and significant long-term cost savings for service providers on international bandwidth, as well as reducing backhaul traffic on domestic links.


Accelerate Web 2.0 and Rich Media Delivery. CacheFlow enables you to cache popular, rich media and Web 2.0 sites, including file-sharing and video sites. Caching saves on bandwidth while boosting the user experience.


Ensure Caching Effectiveness. CacheFlow leverages Blue Coat CachePulse™ for automatic, network-based updates as the Web changes to ensure the appliance effectively caches content and consistently delivers high bandwidth savings.


Filter and Secure Web Traffic. By turning on the built-in Blue Coat WebFilter™ option, CacheFlow filters and secures web traffic, including undesirable content and malware-infected sites. CacheFlow also allows you to create customized exception and block lists for specific sites, as well as leverage the Internet Watch Foundation list to filter illegal content.


Scale with User and Traffic Growth. CacheFlow was designed for high throughput service provider environments with the ability to scale to multi-gigabit support through the use of cache farms. CacheFlow offers both 1GigE and 10GigE interfaces for high-speed network infrastructure requirements and tight integration with load-balancing switches for greater scalability and performance.


Manage and Report on Web Traffic. CacheFlow provides an intuitive Web-based management console and command-line tools for administering the appliance. For ongoing monitoring, CacheFlow integrates via SNMP with common network management solutions and supports event logging via syslog.


Carrier-class Service and Support. Global 24/7 support options are available for the CacheFlow appliance. The appliance is supported by a dedicated team of service provider experts at Blue Coat, plus the appliance includes built-in features so support can proactively mitigate issues and expedite resolution.

To see how much bandwidth you can save, while also improving service speed for your customers, call Blue Coat's authorized integrator of CacheFlow appliances, Milestone Systems, Inc. 

Steve // ask@milestonesystems.com // 952-767-5123

Ask for the free CacheFlow ROI Calculation.