topic Re: Should the Cisco Content Engines be used as a proxy applianc in Application Networking

Should the Cisco Content Engines be used as a proxy appliance

thomuff — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 16:17:43 GMT

Should the Cisco Content Engine be use as a proxy appliance like a Blue Coat appliance, Squid cache engine, ISA server, etc...

I am pretty sure it is but just need some feedback on past experiences. Customer would like to by a Cisco product for Web filtering/proxy.

or is it strictly used to help with web base applications.

Re: Should the Cisco Content Engines be used as a proxy applianc

jfoerster — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:34:57 GMT

HI,

the CE is basically able to check every request it supports. If you are using 3rd level products like smartfilter, websense or webwasher you can use the features of those products to supress/forbid certain requests(i.e MSN etc.)

Kind Regards,

Joerg

Re: Should the Cisco Content Engines be used as a proxy applianc

h.peter — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:39:41 GMT

I guess the most suitable solution is SmartFilter since it comes within. That software should DO anything, my guess

Re: Should the Cisco Content Engines be used as a proxy applianc

jfoerster — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 06:47:57 GMT

Hi,

some additions, websense is also included on the CE. It only depends on what you are licensing.

Kind Regards,

Joerg

Re: Should the Cisco Content Engines be used as a proxy applianc

greg.guhin — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:04:37 GMT

We are using the Content Engine in direct proxy mode with SmartFilter URL-filtering. It seems to work well. We have found some issues where our old ISA servers could handle certain tunneled traffic but the Content Engines can not.