K-12 Schools: Create an affordable, secure and collaborative online learning environment

Across the world, schools like yours are focused on increasing student achievement, enabling the professional development of educators, and fostering collaboration between teachers and parents through Web-enabled applications and streaming media. At the same time, you need to protect students from malware, online threats, inappropriate content and potentially illegal sites that enable academic fraud.

To achieve these goals, you need to provide secure and reliable access to the latest Web applications and learning tools that help your students stay competitive.

Blue Coat helps optimize and secure the flow of information across your distributed network

The Blue Coat Application Delivery Network (ADN) helps increase application security and performance across your distributed network. Our Application Performance Monitoring, WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway technologies enable you to identify all the traffic on your network, manage bandwidth consumption and help students safely navigate appropriate Web sites. You can leverage these technologies individually or combine them into a single, scalable and comprehensive architecture.

Blue Coat helps you:

Prevent students from accessing inappropriate Web content as well as sites that enable academic fraud
Achieve compliance with the U.S.-based Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and associated access to E-rate funds
Accelerate rich media and collaborative applications
Reduce bandwidth consumption by up to 50%
Control Web access based on user profile
Block proxy avoidance sites that enable users to access restricted Web sites

In addition to our Application Delivery Network infrastructure, Blue Coat also offers K9 Web Protection, free security software for home use. Together, these technologies help students safely access the online learning applications they need, wherever they are. By taking advantage of Blue Coat’s affordable tools, your school can create a collaborative learning environment where students, teachers and parents can achieve great results.

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Contact a Blue Coat sales representative and learn how to get started today!

“It was extremely important for us to find a solution that would accelerate key applications and content, and protect our students.”
Chris Bress
Chief Information Officer
Charlotte County Public Schools

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“Blue Coat has enabled us to provide an effective Virtual Learning Environment through accelerating applications across the WAN, including video and SSL-encrypted traffic. The Blue Coat appliances also provide the Web security and policy control we need to protect our students, staff and resources.”
Gavin Wilson
Systems Development Manager
Heriot-Watt University

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Palm Beach County School District

"Blue Coat’s unique technology allows us to automatically analyze and block Internet threats and traffic that do not meet our requirements..."
Michael Dean
Palm Beach Co. School District

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