Established in Melbourne, Australia, in 2002, Blue Reef is a data networking vendor specializing in role-based Access Control & Network Enforcement. The company’s core focus is aimed at helping organizations improve the way people access and use their network and network-based resources. Today Blue Reef has a large Australian and growing global customer base.

The company’s gateway appliance products leverage an organization’s existing Identity Management infrastructure (such as LDAP directory services) to enforce granular role-based access, content and bandwidth control at the network level.

Blue Reef’s value proposition to its customers is that they require less network infrastructure, which is centrally managed by fewer administrators, to provide improved levels of visibility, control and compliance across the network.

As a result, cost benefits are achieved in terms of reduced capital expenditure and less ongoing provisioning, integration, support, training and management.

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"As a network administrator, it is imperative that all User Accounts are managed from a central management system. Sonar's ability to query our accounts system via LDAP and directly enforce network policy based on that information makes it an ideal solution to service our network and reduce the countless hours of duplication and administration."

:: Mr John Toulantas, Network Administrator - St. Michael's Grammar School


"At Fintona Girls' School, our IT Department prides itself on its ability to provide our students with a safe e-learning environment. Sonar enables us to personalise appropriate content filtering policy in accordance with the varying levels and ages of our students...Sonar was a fantastic solution to implement, there is no scripting or manual entry required, the unit simply authenticates against our existing LDAP server."

:: Mr. Grant Frazer, Technical Manager - Fintona Girls' School