Blue Coat Secures and Optimizes Web Experience for 8,500 Users at One of Malaysia’s Top Engineering Universities

Blue Coat ProxySG appliances optimize video and other rich-media traffic to reduce bandwidth consumption at the Universiti Malaysia Perlis

Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) is a fast growing institution of higher learning specialising in electronic-based engineering. Over the past eight years, UniMAP – situated at the northernmost part of the Malaysian peninsula – has grown from just 116 engineering students in 2002 to about 7,000 today enrolled in eight engineering schools offering 27 separate undergraduate programmes, as well as many postgraduate degree options.
As a modern and progressive institution, UniMAP has built up an extensive network which allows its nearly 8,500 staff and students to access the Internet through a comprehensive network that comprises a variety of Ethernet-based and wireless points that serve the various schools in UniMAP’s distributed campus model with a total Internet bandwidth of 66 Mbps.
However, it is critical for UniMAP to ensure that such ubiquitous access to Web content and applications is flexibly controlled and does not adversely impact its users. During the university’s infrastructure planning session, one of the key imperatives laid down was ensuring that both security and performance would not be compromised.

" As a result of the Blue Coat solution, we have deployed our staff more efficiently on other projects. Blue Coat products give me peace of mind while managing high expectations from academicians, students and administrators across a distributed campus."- Hj Nasrudin Abd Shukor, Director, Information Communication and Technology Center

“We have to protect our users and networks from Web threats, phishing and other attacks,” said Hj Nasrudin Abd Shukpor, director, Information Communication and Technology Center at the Universiti Malaysia Perlis. “Because of the heavy usage of the Internet, we also have to take measures to ensure optimal performance.”