Blue Coat WINS 2007 Techworld Awards' "WAN Acceleration Product of the Year"

ProxySG Appliances Accelerate Business-Critical Applications, Stop Malware, Manage Video Distribution and SSL-Encrypted Applications and Support Mobile Employees

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 28, 2007 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the leader in secure content and application delivery, today announced that it has won the 2007 TechWorld Awards' "WAN Acceleration Product of the Year." The annual awards are sponsored by TechWorld, the UK's online Infrastructure and Network Knowledge Center. TechWorld is part of IDG Communications, the largest IT publishing company in the world.

The awards were announced at the annual TechWorld Awards at Gibson Hall in London. The Blue Coat® ProxySG™ appliances won the top award after a comparative evaluation of technical specifications, functionality, features, innovation, performance, configuration, resilience, ease of use, price, fitness for purpose and market position. The Blue Coat appliance was selected from a total of five semi-finalists.

"Winning the WAN Acceleration Product of the Year is a great honor for us and reflects the important advantages of our ProxySG appliances," said Nigel Hawthorn, vice president of marketing, EMEA, Blue Coat Systems. "Blue Coat ProxySG appliances provide a unified platform for WAN Application Delivery, with the ability to stop the bad and accelerate the good under a single unified policy and management structure."

About Blue Coat Systems Blue Coat Systems is the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking. Blue Coat offers an Application Delivery Network Infrastructure that provides the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. This application intelligence enables enterprises to tightly align network investments with business requirements, speed decision making and secure business applications for long-term competitive advantage. Blue Coat also offers service provider solutions for managed security and WAN optimization, as well as carrier-grade caching solutions to save on bandwidth and boost the end-user Web experience. For additional information, please visit www.bluecoat.com.

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