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Blue Coat (Symantec / Broadcom)

The second of five web filtering generations — WCCP-redirected proxy appliances serving a government workplace and a public library on the same infrastructure.

Product lines and other names: ProxySG

Left to right is time. Each row is one of the 6 disciplines Blue Coat (Symantec / Broadcom) carried, ordered so kindred disciplines sit next to each other rather than alphabetically — a landscape only means anything if neighboring rows belong together. Height is the work running in that domain in that year, weighted by what failure would have cost — life-safety ×3, a statutory obligation ×2.2, the estate itself ×1.5, an evaluation ×1. Every project declares which of those it was, so each ridge traces to an entry you can open and disagree with. Only the work that named this manufacturer is counted, so this is the shape of what it carried rather than of the record around it. Height and color are on the record-wide scale rather than this page’s own, so a modest estate draws a modest landscape and any two of these pages can be read against each other.

ProxySG. The library and government sides split on one platform, which is the whole difficulty: the same control has to be defensible under two different sets of expectations.

Where it appears

Declared on each entry rather than listed here, so this page cannot drift from the work it describes. What each entry named is quoted as it stands, with how much of that project rested on it and what stands behind the claim beside it. The first of those drives the height of the surface above.

City of Jacksonville

Coleman Technologies (subsequently acquired; now Presidio)