The key advantages that can accrue from using Progent's network consultants to optimize your data center include:

• Lower costs: enables IT management to significantly reduce capital expenses through integration and more efficient utilization of formerly separate network resources, slash maintenance expenses through streamlining and automating administrative tasks, and reduce HVAC and power costs.
• More Business Agility: enables IT to react quickly to evolving business demands by facilitating fast deployment of application and network functions from common aggregations of consolidated server, storage, and network technologies. This can streamline operational processes and support policy-based management.
• Enhanced Business Robustness: enables IT management to defend against disruptions or intrusions by protecting connections, applications, and data with advanced degrees of availability, pervasive security, and disaster recovery.
• Optimized Service Levels: permits IT management to improve business service levels by implementing secure, accelerated connectivity to data center-resident applications and information from any place and at any moment across the organization.

• Building effective firewall protection solutions using PIX and ASA firewall products
• Installing and supporting protected Virtual Private Network access for connecting data centers to other data centers, corporate offices, and mobile workers
• Designing, and implementing resilient fault tolerant switching, routing, and Internet access systems in which single component breakdowns do not disrupt operation of the network
• Setting up multiple Internet providers with transparent transfer based on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Progent can assist clients through the complete chain of paperwork with Internet authorities, getting Autonomous System numbers and IP addresses allotted, dealing with ISP carriers to prepare their environments, and configuring and checking client devices.
• Building segmented and secure virtual LAN environments to compliment VMware virtual server deployments
• Designing, deploying and helping customers to manage 24x7 IPS systems so that assaults can be identified quickly and defeated before they disrupt productivity
• Planning, configuring, and troubleshooting load balancing solutions. Working with clients, Progent can map customer requirements to the best solutions and implement load balancing at the application level, server level, or connectivity infrastructure layer. Progent's load balancing designs allow for seamless and scalable growth, dependability, performance, and redundancy.
• Progent knows how to design practical network management strategies using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Cisco's open Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and various 3rd party products that present customers a useful real-time view into the operation of their data center's network
• Setting up and troubleshooting advanced data center class infrastructure appliances including the Catalyst 4500 and 6500 family switches and Cisco 7200 and 12000 family routers.

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To get in touch with Progent about technical support for Cisco products, phone 1-800-993-9400 or send email to cisco-help@progent.com.