New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Cisco introduced innovative products targeted specifically for small company IT networks and designed to deliver outstanding security and connectivity at an affordable cost. Solutions unveiled by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest version of the SBCS.

The Cisco Spam Blocker appliance is a purpose-built antispam and antivirus security product that essentially eradicates email-based threats as shipped. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical desktop NAS devices that provide security for important information and enable workers to share information effortlessly. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications solution that seamlessly connects sites, workers, and customers anywhere. Cisco's current version features the industry's debut of a wireless small-footprint IP handset with Bluetooth capabilities. To view Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Introduces Connectivity and Collaboration Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker
The Spam Blocker protects small businesses by offering powerful defense against spam, malware as well as other email-borne threats to guard your network and corporate information while enhance efficiency. Because the device blocks spam and viruses with minimal set up and stays current on its own, it does away with the expense and hassle with initial configuration and continuing and administration. By filtering out spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker increases the throughput of network connections, servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker appliance is a comprehensive defense against email-born attacks by including hardware, intelligent software, continuous patches, and technical assistance in a single package.

Notable features of the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance include:

• Accuracy: Helps to ensure that email attacks and spam are caught while legitimate email is delivered.
• Continuous automatic updates: Non-stop communication with SenderBase services, a network database of email security threats, makes sure that your Spam & Virus Blocker appliance installs the latest updates to guard your corporate email.
• Easy installation and operation: User-friendly web-based installation wizards allow you to configure the Spam Blocker appliance in practically any environment in 15 minutes, delivering instant security for your business.
• Effortless administration: As soon as your company deploys the Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you get spam and virus filtering with minimal extra effort demanded of your IT staff.

NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The NSS2000 and NSS3000 provide the dependable security and comprehensive backup features that your company requires, at a price small companies can handle. The Cisco NSS3000 accommodates up to 4 terabytes of data and as many as 15 concurrent users on each enclosure, provides the ideal answer for storing, sharing, and backing up your vital corporate information. Unlike less advanced network-attached storage (NAS) alternatives, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art backup, encryption, client validation, and high availability your organization requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure supports any approved hard disk drive. The chassis offers a wealth of features in a desktop-size footprint designed for small businesses. The NSS3000 Storage enclosure also offers your company the flexibility to configure the system without any attached hard drives, to reconfigure it at any time, and to link several Cisco NAS chassis together, offering a solution that can smoothly expand with your business.

You can use the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or NSS3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Intelligently back up important data from every desktop and application server on your network
• Provide centralized storage and distribution of key files
• Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to back up unattended every version of every file saved by employees, allowing your company to restore information quickly
• Store and archive digital video from your video surveillance system

Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 is a simple and complete sharing and communications system that enables small organizations to connect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and employees in separate locations to improve their options to interact with clients and colleagues. In the new release, the aggressively priced system has improved wireless support such as the first wireless desktop VoIP phone with Bluetooth, the SPA525G IP phone, which allows businesses to grow cost-effectively by installing phones in places where traditional phone wires or Ethernet wiring is missing or cannot easily be added.

Additional innovative components of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System 1.4 version are:

• The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router to help protect the company's network and give employees safe connectivity to the Internet and key corporate data any time, anywhere
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to permit stakeholders to streamline the configuration and deployment of solutions created specifically for certain businesses

How Progent's Consulting Engineers Can Help You to Incorporate Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco-qualified consultants and CCIE accredited engineers can assist your company to assess new Cisco products to determine their appropriateness for your IT system, configure Cisco security and communication platforms to enhance the protection and performance of your network, and provide tech support for Cisco devices both in person and online to keep your IT network running smoothly. Progent's consultants can provide a range of low-cost services to enhance the reliability, protection, speed, and maintainability of your information system:

Immediate Online Access to Cisco CCIE Certified Network Engineers
Progent is the leading source of easy, quick, and low-cost help from Cisco CCIE engineers. CCIEs are highly-qualified network experts who earn this top-level certification only through intense testing by Cisco. CCIEs can handle the most complex problems encountered with IT network architecture, deployment, troubleshooting, and service. Progent's CCIE professionals cooperate closely with Cisco engineers in identifying problems with Cisco's IOS platform and devising fixes or acquiring software updates to correct problems. Progent can provide fast access to a CCIE by phone so that you can get urgent assistance for complex network troubles that are undermining worker efficiency but are beyond the expertise of your usual network service resources. Progent's CCIE support engineers can link to your network using state-of-the-art off-site connectivity tools to provide timely and cost-effective analysis and remediation of urgent network problems.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can assist your business to integrate, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco IP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent can provide support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued Voice over IP products to the latest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Unified CM, formerly named CallManager, or with Unified CM Express to build a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can provide support with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP trunking, deploying Cisco ISR routers with CUBE internetworking support, and creating Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony solutions for high availability. For additional information about Progent's support for Cisco's collaboration solutions, go to Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Consulting Help.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM), previously known as CallManager, acts as the foundation of Cisco's communications and collaboration solution. Unified Communications Manager and Unified CM Express (CME) offer a borderless IP-PBX by integrating closely with apps that include Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for building an advanced customer contact solution. Progent's CCIE-certified CUCM experts can assist with any facet of Unified CM setup and troubleshooting in areas that include integrating VoIP phones and video IP phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN support, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, creating UCS server failover systems for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting Expertise
Progent's certified Cisco IT security consulting professionals provide expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services covering architecture, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and secure access services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home businesses to scalable enterprise-level appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer advanced protection, performance, and high reliability for network environments of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed platform, minimizing possible OS-specific security holes.

Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's CISM and CISSP-premier security consultants can deliver a range of budget-friendly network security Inventory packages and security evaluation bundles designed to offer organizations of all sizes a chance to receive an impartial opinion about the effectiveness of their security profile. These packages vary from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal security scan packages for small and midsize companies up to a high-level network security evaluation package for enterprises who have to meet security standards demanded by government regulators or by customers. For each security inventory or evaluation bundle, engineers with high-level security accreditations analyze and summarize scanned information and make recommendations for effective remediation.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and CUBE Configuration Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk consultants and CUBE configuration experts can assist you to plan, deploy, manage, troubleshoot and upgrade Cisco's SIP infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers affordable online or on-premises expertise to assist businesses to move efficiently to a modern communications environment that offers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration consultants can assist you to establish connections between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's rich media applications like Skype for Business Server and Lync for access to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Infrastructure
Progent can provide a certified CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that incorporates a wide range of wireless appliances and technologies and provides the identical security, scalability, and manageability you expect from a wired environment. Progent can help you to achieve transparent integration between Cisco wireless technology and wireless technology from other suppliers to offer your company the functionality you require plus the most protected, reliable, and economical WLAN solution possible. Progent's CISA and ISSAP security specialists can advise you about how to build security into your WLAN and your business processes.

Automated Administration Tools for Cisco-powered Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management consultants offer help with Cisco's management utilities along with a variety of powerful third-party products to create a complete management automation solution in order to keep your network operating smoothly, conserve expensive resources, guard your information, revive quickly from hardware failure or deliberate attacks, and enable you to expand or reassign network components intelligently and economically as your business evolves.

To find out additional information about Progent's consulting expertise for Cisco networking and communications products, call 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.