As the industry's number one source of networking products, Cisco provides the most complete line of appliances and technologies for allowing Internet Service Providers to deliver safe, expandable, feature-rich voice, video, and data services. Progent's Cisco- certified network engineers have extensive backgrounds serving the special needs of Internet Service Providers by assisting service providers to architect, deploy, and support fault-tolerant, scalable network solutions suitable for public network applications.

Consulting services offered to ISPs from Progent's Cisco-certified experts include:

• Design and implement Internet Service Provider network that lowers capital and operating costs and streamlines system support
• Set up and maintain high-end ATM and MPLS WAN aggregation solutions providing DSL, ATM, and T1 access to large customer populations
• Handle the seamless cutover between backbone providers and set up peering and Border Gateway Protocol solutions
• Help in deploying Cisco's network management solutions, update Cisco IOS software implementations, work with Cisco internal engineers in identifying and resolving complex software bugs, and performing upgrades and relocations of equipment and interfaces
• Create custom system and usage accounting solutions for client billing
• Implement network monitoring engines that rapidly detect and block the impacts of Denial of Service attacks
• Design and configure metro network configurations and distributed POPs
• Assist with expanding and managing of metropolitan Wi-Fi mesh networks

Progent's Cisco-certified Consulting for Cisco IOS Software Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Cisco IOS Multiprotocol Label Switching enables ISPs to build smart networks that support a wide range of functions over a single system. This cost-effective solution can be deployed transparently over any existing environment, such as IP, ATM, or 10BASE-T. Because Multiprotocol Label Switching is isolated from access protocols, subscribers with various access links can be aggregated on an MPLS edge without modifying their existing environments.

Combining Multiprotocol Label Switching application pieces including layers 3 and 2 VPNs, Traffic Engineering (TE), Quality of Service, GMPLS, and IPV6 protocol allows the development of fast, expandable, and protected network environments that ensure SLAs.

Internet service providers can reduce their time to profitability by up to 25% and realize an extra 50% of throughput capability by implementing MPLS Virtual Private Networks, MPLS QoS, and MPLS TE instead of only providing the baseline connectivity of Virtual Private Networks. Progent's Cisco qualified CCIE engineers can assist Internet service providers with the planning, configuration, implementation, and management of large public networks that derive all the benefits of MPLS technology to maximize performance, deliver protected connectivity, and meet service-level agreement (SLA) guarantees.

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