Bangkok--15 Jan--PC & Associates Consulting Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCSI), the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that a new report from IDC, a leading market research and advisory firm, ranks Blue Coat first in worldwide market share for WAN Application Delivery during the first half of calendar year 2007. According to the recently issued IDC report, “Worldwide WAN Application Delivery 2006 and 1H07 Vendor Shares, ” Blue Coat was the market leader for the entire year in 2006 and for the first half of 2007. “Blue Coat has established itself as the clear market leader over the last 18 months. This leadership is as a result of a differentiated value proposition for the enterprise.” said Lucinda Borovick, vice president of data center networks, IDC. “Blue Coat takes a unique approach by combining Web security and policy control with WAN optimization and application acceleration to offer a complete WAN Application Delivery solution for branch offices, remote workers, corporate headquarters and data centers.” “We are confident that our strategy of “Stop The Bad. Accelerate The Good” offers a total WAN Application Delivery (WAD) solution for our customers which is unique and relevant in today’s emerging WAD market. The No.1 market share ranking by IDC confirms that our customers require Security and Acceleration features to work together in order to solve customers’ WAN applications problems.” said Mr William Tan, Country Manager, Thailand, Blue Coat System .