Blue Coat SG Client extends application delivery to mobile users and small branch offices, enabling application acceleration to the desktop. SG Client offers several acceleration and optimization techniques to provide a LAN-like end-user experience for telecommuters, mobile employees, remote third party contractors and others who need access to internal or hosted resources but are potentially thousands of miles away.  Whether used to complement a branch office solution or simply to improve the application and file services performance for remote users connecting over VPNs, SG Client minimizes lost productivity and end-user frustration from sluggish applications and slow network performance. 

LAN-like end-user experience – minimize end-user productivity loss from slow file access by accelerating file operations (opening, copying, saving and closing of Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Adobe Acrobat files and other files located on remote file shares) up to 25 times

Accelerated Web applications – speed up heavyweight Web applications so they are finally usable again by remote employees and partners

Granular Control by Application – define which applications are accelerated and which are not to prevent accelerating non-critical business applications, such as personal Web browsing

As an integrated part of the Blue Coat solution for WAN optimization, SG Client is administered with the SG management console for easy provisioning, configuration and ongoing maintenance.  It can also be distributed to end-user machines using standard software provisioning services and is automatically and transparently updated to minimize ongoing administrative time and resources. SG Client also delivers business-critical features for load balancing and failover.  On the desktop, SG Client starts automatically on system boot and includes a real-time statistics display to monitor application performance.    

SG Client complements Blue Coat SG appliances by establishing distributed points of control to accelerate business applications for remote workers.  Deployed for mobile employees, workers in small branch offices or both, SG Client delivers the application acceleration and WAN optimization features necessary to maximize remote worker productivity through accelerated access to corporate resources and applications.