Cisco Certified Network Consulting

Data centers are the focal point of utilizing information technology resources to maximize the competitive value of a computer network. For small organizations, data centers have often grown in a piecemeal manner, creating a situation where servers and disks are deployed inefficiently, available communications bandwidth is wasted, teamwork and knowledge sharing is minimal, support requirements are high, expansion or reconfiguring is costly, security is poor, seemingly simple modifications turn into giant challenges, and full recovery from disastrous breakdowns becomes almost undoable.

Cisco's latest networking devices 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 Cisco-certified professionals can help you to identify and implement Cisco's connectivity technology to create a robust foundation for your data center and to improve your operations in critical areas such as:

• Processor and disk efficiency
• End-to-end security enforcement
• Processor proliferation
• Regulatory issues
• Business continuance

The key benefits that can be realized as a result of using Progent's network experts to optimize your data center include:

• Lower total cost of ownership: enables IT to substantially reduce capital costs through consolidation and more efficient utilization of previously isolated network resources, lower maintenance expenses through streamlining and automating administrative tasks, and cut cooling and energy costs.
• Greater Business Agility: enables IT management to react quickly to evolving competitive conditions by facilitating fast deployment of application and infrastructure services from common pools of consolidated processor, storage, and network technologies. This helps improve operational processes and enable policy-based control.
• Better Network Robustness: enables IT management to defend against breakdowns or attacks by guarding infrastructure, applications, and information through the highest degrees of fault tolerance, pervasive protection, and disaster recovery.
• Improved Service Levels: allows IT management to improve business service levels by providing secure, fast access to data center-resident applications and information from any place and at any moment throughout the enterprise.

• Designing efficient firewall protection solutions using PIX and ASA firewall technology
• Installing and troubleshooting secure Virtual Private Network access for connecting data centers to other data centers, corporate sites, and mobile users
• Designing, and implementing complete fault tolerant switching, routing, and Internet connectivity systems so that single component breakdowns do not interrupt availability of services
• Setting up backup Internet providers with transparent failover based on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Progent can help customers along the entire chain of paperwork with Internet authorities, having ASN numbers and IP addresses allocated, working with ISP carriers to set up their systems, and configuring and checking customer equipment.
• Building segmented and protected virtual LAN environments to support VMware and Microsoft virtual server deployments
• Designing, installing and assisting clients to administer 24x7 IPS systems so that attacks can be identified rapidly and remediated so they don't impact your business
• Designing, configuring, and supporting load balancing solutions. Consulting with customers, Progent can match customer needs to the appropriate solutions and implement load balancing at the application level, server level, or network infrastructure layer. Such solutions allow for transparent and convenient expansion, dependability, performance, and redundancy.
• Progent can create effective network management solutions using SNMP and Cisco's Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and a variety of outside vendor products that present customers a useful look into the operation of their data center's network
• Configuring and troubleshooting high-end data center capable routers and switches including the Cisco Catalyst 6500 and 6800 family switches, Cisco Nexus 5000, 6000, and 7000 switches, and Cisco 7600 and 12000 family routers.

For more information concerning Progent's engineering support for Cisco networking products, choose a topic:

• Introduction to Cisco Expertise
• Fast and Affordable Online Support from a CCIE Consultant
• Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewalls: Configuration and Troubleshooting Expertise
• Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower: Configuration and Troubleshooting Support
• Cisco ASA 5500 Firewall Integration Support
• PIX Firewall Engineering Services
• Cisco Routers Consulting Expertise
• Cisco Wireless Engineering Services
• Aironet Wireless Access Points Engineering Support
• Cisco Small Business WiFi APs Consulting Support
• Cisco Catalyst 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6/6E Wireless Access Points Planning, Configuration and Troubleshooting Services
• Cisco Wireless Controllers Consultants
• Meraki Wireless APs Engineering Expertise
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM) and Cisco CallManager Configuration and Technical Support
• Cisco VoIP Phones and IP Video Phones Consulting Services and Cisco Wireless VoIP Phone Configuration
• Cisco Jabber Consulting and Support Expertise
• Catalyst Switches Deployment Services
• Nexus Switches Consulting and Support Services
• Cisco Meraki MS Switches Deployment Expertise
• Cisco VPN and Security Setup and Troubleshooting Expertise
• SIP and CUBE Integration Solutions: SIP Trunking and CUBE Integration Consulting
• Cisco Duo MFA Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for Teleworkers
• Data Center Optimization Expertise for Internet Service Providers
• Centralized Cloud-based and Hybrid Network Management Solutions for Cisco-based Environments

In order to contact Progent about consulting assistance for Cisco technology, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.