Expanding your at-home workforce may have a significant impact on IT infrastructure, security/compliance, and corporate processes. Progent has two decades of experience assisting small and mid-size businesses to plan, configure, administer, tune, and debug IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Brighton organization to select the right technologies and follow best practices in creating and operating a secure virtual ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and delivers top business value. Progent can provide services ranging from as-needed guidance for getting you past occasional technical roadblocks to full project management or co-management to help you carry out mission-critical tasks.
Progent can assist Brighton, United Kingdom organizations to succeed with any facet of building a high-performing remote work ecosystem by delivering infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, Help Desk augmentation, cybersecurity, data protection solutions, and unified management.
Network Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Integrating the physical and software infrastructure needed to support a remote workforce can be particularly challenging if you must accommodate a mix of worker-owned hardware like PCs and notebooks, Internet routers, and wireless APs from an assortment of manufacturers and with a mix of OS software and firmware releases. Progent's background providing remote support for both legacy and current IT products in remote office venues enables you to make cost-effective use of your existing infrastructure and offers fast access to top-tire consultants for implement necessary updates. Support services available from Progent to help you to create a productive work-at-home ecosystem include:
- VPN connectivity makes it possible to establish a safe connection for authenticated at-home employees to use IT assets situated at your corporate data center or in a public cloud. Progent's consultants can assist you to configure and maintain VPN connections between your at-home workforce and your various IT resources by providing online VPN integration support. For organizations using Cisco's ASA firewalls, Progent's Cisco ASA Firewall consultants can help your at-home workers to utilize Cisco's AnyConnect client software for secure VPN connections for a broad selection of devices such as Windows, macOS, iOS, Linux, and Android.
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platforms enable a teleworker to view and use a data center computer's desktop. This technology gives network managers more control over the computing environment of telecommuters and ensures them a consistent and more productive work experience. Progent's VDI consulting services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops expertise.
- Routers attach home networks to the Internet and typically support VPN connections, local Wi-Fi connectivity, and firewalls. Progent can provide top-tier online support for configuring home routers from a variety of manufacturers. See router integration support from Cisco-certified consultants.
- Home Wi-Fi networks, typically shared by the whole family and guests, are frequently utilized by telecommuters to connect to their router for work. This can cause performance and security problems. Progent can help businesses to mitigate these issues by delivering expertise like Cisco Aironet configuration expertise, Cisco-certified Meraki WiFi deployment expertise, and Ubiquiti Unifi wireless access point integration help.
- Internet connectivity methods impact the speed and reliability of connections between telecommuters and the company data center. Line-of-business applications may demand backup Internet access in the event the primary connection breaks. Progent offers guidance for selecting service providers, selecting appropriate bandwidth and data volume bundles, and integrating high-availability Internet access. Refer to Internet access solutions.
Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about creating and managing an efficient telecommuter environment for your Brighton, United Kingdom organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.