INVACARE SELECTS BLUE COAT FOR WAN OPTIMIZATION

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 4, 2007 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the leader in secure content and application delivery, today announced that Invacare Corporation has selected Blue Coat® SG™ appliances to accelerate critical business applications across its Wide Area Network (WAN) between its headquarters in Elyria, Ohio and its Asia Pacific global sourcing office in Hong Kong. Invacare is a global leader in home medical products with manufacturing plants in the United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom and sales offices around the world.

Initial performance assessments show application response time ranging to upwards of 78 times faster due to the use of SG appliances. Invacare will use Blue Coat SG appliances to accelerate the remote operation of various Oracle enterprise applications, Lotus Notes and access to files not available locally.

"It is important to provide our Hong Kong office nearly the same level of responsiveness and interaction with critical enterprise applications as we have in our corporate headquarters," said Roger Crayton, Manager of Intel and Security Services, Invacare Corporation. "We selected Blue Coat appliances to address a variety of WAN optimization challenges and provide flexibility for the future."

Blue Coat SG appliances utilize the company's MACH5 patent-pending framework of acceleration technologies that are designed to accelerate all key enterprise applications, including: Web and secure Web applications (SSL), file services, email/Microsoft Exchange and live streaming or on-demand video. Since the MACH5 technology is integrated with the Blue Coat platform, it enables organizations to manage all of their user/application interactions—to stop undesirable applications, throttle less important applications and accelerate critical applications, even when encrypted within SSL.

"We are pleased to provide dramatic application performance for Invacare, regardless of the long distances between locations," said Chris King, director, strategic marketing, Blue Coat Systems, Inc. "With Blue Coat, Invacare can operate efficiently around the globe and have a solution that can also manage and accelerate important business-critical traffic in the future, such as SSL-encrypted traffic from outsourced applications or video."