Cisco Network Consultants

Data centers are the focal point of leveraging information technology resources to maximize the business value of a computer network. For small companies, data centers have typically evolved in a piecemeal fashion, resulting in a situation where processors and storage devices are deployed inefficiently, available communications capacity is overlooked, collaboration and knowledge sharing is minimal, maintenance requirements are high, expansion or reconfiguring is costly, security is poor, seemingly simple changes become major hassles, and full recovery from catastrophic breakdowns is virtually undoable.

Cisco's most recent network appliances and tools support a new generation of data center design that allows continual enhancements in server, storage, network infrastructure, and applications in a manageable and economical way. Progent's engineers can assist you to select and deploy Cisco's connectivity technology to build a solid basis for your data center and to improve your operations in vital areas such as:

• Server and storage utilization
• End-to-end security policy enforcement
• Server proliferation
• Regulatory issues
• Disaster recovery

The important benefits that can be realized from engaging Progent's Cisco-certified experts to enhance your data center include:

• Lower ownership cost: permits IT management to significantly reduce acquisition costs via integration and higher utilization of formerly separate equipment, lower operational costs through streamlining and automating management jobs, and reduce air conditioning and energy costs.
• Greater Business Agility: permits IT to react quickly to changing competitive demands by allowing rapid deployment of application and infrastructure services from shared pools of consolidated processor, storage, and network resources. This helps improve operational procedures and enable policy-based control.
• Enhanced Network Resilience: allows IT to respond to disruptions or attacks by guarding connections, applications, and data through the highest degrees of availability, comprehensive security, and disaster recovery.
• Optimized Service Levels: permits IT management to optimize network service levels by implementing safe, accelerated access to data center-resident applications and data from anywhere and at any time across the enterprise.

• Designing effective firewall security solutions using PIX and ASA firewall appliances
• Deploying and troubleshooting secure VPN connections for connecting data centers to other data centers, corporate offices, and mobile users
• Planning, and implementing resilient zero-downtime LAN and Internet access systems in which single point breakdowns do not interrupt productivity
• Setting up backup Internet providers with transparent failover using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Progent can assist clients along the entire path of paperwork with Internet authorities, having Autonomous System numbers and IP addresses allotted, working with ISPs to prepare their networks, and configuring and checking customer equipment.
• Implementing segmented and secure virtual LAN (VLAN architectures to compliment VMware virtual server deployments
• Designing, installing and helping customers to manage 24x7 intrusion prevention systems (IPS) so that assaults can be identified rapidly and defeated so they don't impact productivity
• Planning, configuring, and supporting load balancing solutions. Working with customers, Progent can match expressed requirements to the best technology and deploy load balancing at the application level, server level, or connectivity infrastructure layer. Such solutions allow for transparent and scalable growth, dependability, performance, and redundancy.
• Progent knows how to design practical network management strategies using Simple Network Management Protocol and Cisco's Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and various 3rd party solutions that allow customers a useful real-time view into the activity of their data center's infrastructure
• Setting up and troubleshooting high-end data center class infrastructure appliances such as the Catalyst 6500 and 6800 switches, Nexus 5000, 6000, and 7000 family switches, and Cisco 7200 and 7600 family routers.

For more information concerning Progent's professional support for Cisco technology, select a subject:

• Introduction to Cisco Consulting Services
• Fast and Affordable Online Help from a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Network Engineer
• Cisco Firepower NGFW Series Firewalls: Configuration and Management Services
• Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Cisco Firepower Services: Configuration and Management Services
• Cisco ASA 5500 Firewall Engineering Help
• PIX Series Firewall Consulting Help
• Cisco Routers Configuration and Troubleshooting Support
• Cisco Wireless Network Design Expertise
• Aironet Wireless APs Engineering Support
• Cisco Small Business 100, 300 and 500 WiFi APs Deployment Help
• Cisco Catalyst 802.11ax APs Solution Design, Deployment and Troubleshooting Expertise
• Cisco WiFi Controllers Support Services
• Cisco Meraki Access Points Engineering Services
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM) and Cisco CallManager Integration and Technical Support
• Cisco VoIP Phones and IP Video Desktop Phones Consulting Services and Cisco Wireless IP Phone Integration
• Cisco Jabber and Management Expertise
• Catalyst Switches Consulting and Support Services
• Cisco Nexus Switches Consulting and Support Expertise
• Meraki Switches Consulting and Support Expertise
• Cisco VPN and Network Security Engineering Expertise
• SIP and CUBE Infrastructure Solutions: SIP Trunks and CUBE Integration Expertise
• Infrastructure Optimization Services for ISPs
• Streamlined Management Technologies for Cisco Infrastructure

In order to contact Progent about consulting assistance for Cisco networking, call 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.