Blue Coat helps optimize your SCCM/SMS deployment, even when consolidation has reduced the amount of distribution points and forces clients to traverse the WAN to download from remote distribution points or from the central data center.

Blue Coat’s MACH5 TCP optimizations, along with CIFS and HTTP protocol optimizations, accelerate the distribution of all types of SCCM software updates and packages. Blue Coat’s object cache helps eliminate costly round-trips to verify data, and is able to deliver software packages to the client at LAN speed.

Most importantly, Blue Coat makes it easy to employ bandwidth management and QoS, giving administrators the freedom to schedule updates anytime so SCCM traffic does not interfere with business-critical applications. With Blue Coat, you can:

• Download or install packages in minutes instead of hours, even without distribution points in each branch office.
• Reduce bandwidth utilization to near-zero through object caching — a 99% improvement.
• Prioritize traffic so that SCCM packages do not interfere with business applications starting installation.