Cisco Certified Network Consultants

Data centers are the key to leveraging IT assets to optimize the strategic value of a computer network. For small companies, data centers have typically evolved in a haphazard manner, resulting in a state where servers and storage devices are deployed inefficiently, usable communications capacity is overlooked, teamwork and knowledge sharing is limited, maintenance demands are high, scaling or repurposing is expensive, protection is poor, seemingly simple changes turn into giant challenges, and full recovery from disastrous breakdowns becomes virtually impossible.

Cisco's most recent connectivity devices and tools support a new generation of data center design that allows ongoing improvements in server, storage, connectivity infrastructure, and applications in a manageable and cost-effective way. Progent's Cisco-certified professionals can assist you to identify and deploy Cisco's connectivity technology to create a robust foundation for your data center and to improve your operations in vital areas such as:

• Processor and storage utilization
• Comprehensive security enforcement
• Processor proliferation
• Regulatory compliance
• Disaster recovery

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

• Lower costs: allows IT to significantly cut acquisition costs through consolidation and more efficient use of previously isolated equipment, lower maintenance expenses by simplifying and automating management tasks, and cut HVAC and energy bills.
• Greater Business Agility: enables IT to react quickly to changing competitive conditions by allowing fast deployment of application and network functions from shared aggregations of consolidated server, disk, and network resources. This helps improve operational processes and enable policy-based control.
• Better Network Robustness: enables IT management to defend against disruptions or attacks by guarding infrastructure, programs, and data through the highest levels of fault tolerance, pervasive protection, and disaster recovery.
• Improved Service Levels: enables IT management to optimize business service levels by providing secure, accelerated access to data center-hosted applications and data from anywhere and at any moment throughout the enterprise.

• Designing effective firewall security solutions based on PIX and ASA firewall appliances
• Deploying and supporting protected Virtual Private Network access for connecting data centers to other data centers, business offices, and mobile users
• Designing, and integrating resilient non-stop LAN and Internet access architectures in which single component breakdowns do not disrupt operation of the network
• Configuring multiple ISPs with seamless transfer using BGP protocols. Progent can help customers along the complete chain of paperwork with Internet authorities, having ASN numbers and IP addresses allocated, working with Internet Service Providers to prepare their networks, and configuring and testing client devices.
• Implementing segmented and secure virtual LAN (VLAN environments to compliment VMware virtual server systems
• Designing, installing and helping customers to manage proactive IPS systems so that attacks can be detected quickly and defeated before they impact productivity
• Designing, configuring, and supporting load balancing solutions. Consulting with customers, Progent can match expressed needs to the most cost-effective technology and deploy load balancing at the application level, server level, or connectivity infrastructure layer. Progent's load balancing solutions allow for seamless and convenient growth, reliability, security, and fault tolerance.
• Progent can plan effective network management strategies using Simple Network Management Protocol and Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and CiscoWorks and a variety of 3rd party products that offer customers a powerful look into the activity of their data center's infrastructure
• Configuring and supporting advanced data center class infrastructure appliances such as the Cisco Catalyst 6500 and 6800 switches, Cisco Nexus 5000 and 7000 family switches, and Cisco 7600 and 12000 family routers.

To see additional details concerning Progent's professional expertise for Cisco technology, select a topic:

• Introduction to Progent's Cisco Expertise
• Fast and Affordable Remote Help from a Cisco CCIE Engineer
• Cisco Firepower Firewalls: Integration and Management Services
• ASA 5500-X Firewall with Firepower Services: Integration and Troubleshooting Services
• Cisco ASA 5500 Firewalls Consulting Support
• PIX Firewall Maintenance Services
• Cisco Routers Engineering Services
• Cisco Wireless Deployment Expertise
• Aironet APs Design Help
• Cisco Small Business WiFi APs Engineering Support
• Catalyst 802.11ax Wireless Access Points Solution Design, Deployment and Troubleshooting Consulting
• Cisco Wireless Controllers Support Services
• Meraki APs Engineering Services
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM) and CallManager Consulting and Troubleshooting
• Cisco Voice over IP Phones and IP Video Desktop Phones Consulting and Cisco Wireless IP Phone Integration
• Cisco Jabber Integration Expertise
• Catalyst Switches Engineering Services
• Cisco Nexus Switches Consulting and Support Services
• Cisco Meraki Switches Configuration and Maintenance Services
• Cisco VPN and Network Security Engineering Assistance
• SIP and CUBE Infrastructure Solutions: SIP Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Consulting
• Data Center Optimization Services for Internet Service Providers
• Streamlined Network Management Solutions for Cisco-powered Infrastructure

To ask Progent about engineering assistance for Cisco products, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.