Expanding your at-home workforce may have a major effect on network architecture, security, and corporate processes. Progent has two decades of background helping small and mid-size businesses to plan, configure, manage, optimize, and debug IT networks that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can assist your Baton Rouge company to pick the appropriate technologies and follow leading practices in creating and operating a secure virtual solution for telecommuters that facilitates collaboration and returns top business value. Progent can provide support services that go from as-needed guidance for getting you over occasional IT bottlenecks to full project management to help you carry out business-critical initiatives.
Progent's consultants can assist Baton Rouge, Louisiana companies to succeed with any aspect of creating a high-performing work-at-home environment by delivering infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, Call Desk outsourcing, data security, data protection solutions, and centralized management.
Network Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Integrating the network infrastructure required to support an at-home work environment can be particularly challenging if you must manage a mix of worker-owned equipment such as PCs and laptops, Internet routers, and Wi-Fi APs from an assortment of manufacturers and with a mix of OS software and firmware levels. Progent's background delivering remote help for both outdated as well as modern IT products in remote office venues allows you to make efficient use of your existing infrastructure and offers ready access to expertise for implement necessary upgrades. Support services available from Progent to help you to create a productive telecommuting ecosystem include:
- Virtual Private Network connectivity makes it possible to create a safe tunnel for authenticated at-home employees to use IT resources located at your corporate data center or in a public cloud. Progent can help you to deploy and manage VPN connections between your at-home workforce and your various IT resources by providing online VPN configuration consulting. For businesses using Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco ASA Firewall consultants can help your telecommuters to set up Cisco's popular AnyConnect client software for safe VPN connections for a broad selection of devices including Windows, Mac, iOS, Linux, and Android.
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platforms enable a teleworker to view and interact with a data center computer's desktop. This provides network managers substantial control over the computing environment of telecommuters and ensures them a familiar experience. Progent's VDI consulting services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI solutions.
- Routers attach at-home computer networks to the Internet and support VPN tunnels, local wireless networks, and firewall services. Progent offers expert online support for configuring routers from a range of vendors. See router integration support from Cisco-certified experts.
- Home Wireless networks, often shared by an entire household and guests, are frequently utilized by at-home employees to connect to their Internet router for work. This can cause performance and cybersecurity problems. Progent can help you to mitigate these issues by delivering services like Aironet configuration consulting, Cisco-certified Meraki WiFi deployment consulting, and Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi access point integration assistance.
- Internet connectivity methods affect the speed and availability of connections between at-home workers and the company data center. Vital processes may require redundant Internet connections in the event the primary connection fails. Progent offers expertise for identifying service providers, selecting sensible bandwidth and data volume packages, and setting up redundant Internet access. See Internet access solutions.
Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
To contact Progent about creating and maintaining an efficient telecommuter environment for your Baton Rouge, Louisiana company, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.