Enlarging your at-home workforce may have a significant impact on IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company culture. Progent has two decades of background assisting businesses of all sizes to design, configure, administer, tune, and debug IT environments that support work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Arlington company to pick the right tools and follow best practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and delivers top business value. Progent offers services that go from on demand guidance for helping you over challenging IT bottlenecks to full project management or co-management to help you carry out business-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can help Arlington, Texas companies to succeed with any facet of building a high-performing remote work environment by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud integration, helpdesk outsourcing, data security, backup/restore solutions, and streamlined management.

Network Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Setting up the physical and software infrastructure needed to support a remote workforce can be especially challenging if you must manage a combination of personal hardware such as PCs and laptops, routers, and Wi-Fi APs from various vendors and with a variety of operating systems and firmware releases. Progent's experience providing online support for both legacy and current IT products in remote office venues enables you to make efficient use of your existing infrastructure and provides you with fast access to top-tire consultants for implement essential updates. Support services available from Progent to assist your company to create a productive telecommuting infrastructure include:

  • VPN technology allows you to create a safe tunnel for authenticated remote employees to use IT assets situated at your company datacenter or in a public cloud. Progent's consultants can assist your company to deploy and manage VPN connections between your teleworkers and your key network resources by providing online VPN configuration support. For businesses with Cisco's ASA firewalls, Progent's Cisco ASA Firewall experts can help your remote workers to utilize Cisco's popular AnyConnect software to provide safe VPN connections for a wide selection of endpoint devices including Windows, macOS, iOS, Linux, and Google Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) products allow a teleworker to see and interact with a remote PC's desktop. This technology gives network managers significant control over the computing ecosystem of telecommuters and ensures remote users a familiar work experience. Progent's VDI services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI solutions.
  • Routers attach home networks to the Internet and typically support VPN connections, local wireless connectivity, and firewall services. Progent can provide top-tier remote consulting for integrating home routers from all major vendors. See router integration support from Cisco-certified experts.
  • Home Wi-Fi networks, typically shared by an entire household and guests, are frequently used by at-home employees to connect to their Internet router for work. This can create throughput as well as security problems. Progent can help you to resolve these issues by delivering services that include Aironet integration expertise, Cisco Meraki wireless deployment consulting, and Ubiquiti WiFi access point integration help.
  • Internet connectivity methods impact the performance and reliability of connections between at-home workers and the corporate data center. Line-of-business processes may require backup Internet connections in the event the primary connection breaks. Progent offers guidance for selecting Internet service providers, picking appropriate service bundles, and integrating high-availability Internet access. See Internet connectivity integration services.

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about creating and managing an efficient work-from-home solution for your Arlington, Texas business, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.