PHILIPS SELECTS BLUE COAT FOR WAN OPTIMIZATION

Blue Coat® Systems (Nasdaq: BCSI), the leader in secure content and application delivery, today announced that the Philips Electronics China Group has selected Blue Coat SG appliances to provide WAN optimization for its branch and regional offices throughout China. The appliances accelerate applications, reduce bandwidth consumption and provide Web security and policy control to protect information resources and enforce company policies. Currently Blue Coat appliances are deployed at 20 Philips Electronics sites through the country. The sites include Philips Light Factory as well as the world

headquarters for Philips Audio and branches for Philips Medical Systems, Consumer Electronics and Domestic Appliances and Personal Care.

“Blue Coat Systems is pleased to provide Philips Electronics China Group with infrastructure to simultaneously accelerate, secure and control Web applications and content to and from its locations throughout China,” said Matt Young, vice president of sales, Asia Pacific, Blue Coat Systems. “Blue Coat SG appliances help Philips to collaborate, communicate and conduct business safely and efficiently throughout the region.”

About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat’s family of appliances and client-based solutions – deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers – provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance between users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 30,000 appliances worldwide and is ranked #1 by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery market. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or bluecoat