Cisco Premier Certified Consulting Services Cisco introduced innovative products intended specifically for small company IT networks and designed to provide exceptional levels of protection and collaboration at a budget-friendly price. Solutions unveiled by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest version of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a purpose-built antispam and antivirus security device that virtually eradicates email attacks with no set up. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint NAS appliances that offer security for important information and enable workers to access shared files easily. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4, a complete sharing and communications system that seamlessly interconnects sites, workers, and customers anywhere. The current version features the industry's debut of a cordless small-footprint IP phone with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To read Cisco's press release, visit Cisco Introduces Networking and Security Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Consultants The Spam and Virus Blocker safeguards small companies by offering powerful defense against spam, viruses and worms and other email threats to guard your network and corporate information while improve productivity. Because the appliance blocks spam with minimal set up and stays current on its own, it eliminates the cost and hassle associated setup and ongoing and management. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker increases the throughput of network connections, servers, and computers. The Spam Blocker represents a comprehensive solution email attacks by including a physical appliance, intelligent software, continuous patches, and product support in a unified bundle.

Notable features of the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance are:

  • Precision: Assists to ensure that email-borne threats and spam are intercepted and legitimate messages are delivered.
  • Ongoing automatic updates: Constant interaction with SenderBase services, a network database of email safety threats, makes sure that the Spam & Virus Blocker appliance incorporates the most current updates to protect your business email.
  • Easy installation and use: User-friendly browser-based installation tools allow you to configure Cisco's Spam Blocker in almost any environment in minutes, providing immediate security for your business network.
  • Effortless management: As soon as you installs the Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you benefit from junk mail and virus protection with no extra hassle demanded from your IT staff.

NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Help The NSS2000 and NSS3000 provide the robust protection and comprehensive backup features that your business needs, at a price small companies can afford. The Small Business NSS3000 accommodates up to four terabytes of data and up to 15 concurrent clients per chassis, offering the optimal answer for storing, accessing, and backing up your vital corporate data. Unlike less sophisticated NAS alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the advanced archiving, encryption, user validation, and service continuity your business needs.

The NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis handles any approved drive. The chassis offers a range of features in a desktop system designed for small companies. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage enclosure also gives your company the flexibility to configure the product without any attached hard disk drives, to modify the product easily, and to link several chassis with one another, providing a solution that can continually expand with your company.

Your business can utilize the Cisco NSS2000 or NSS3000 to:

  • Intelligently copy important data from every workstation and application server in your organization
  • Offer centralized preservation and distribution of key files
  • Run Continuous Data Protection to back up automatically every revision of every file saved by employees, allowing you to recover information with ease
  • Record and archive digital video from your video surveillance cameras

Smart Business Communications System
Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Help The Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4 is a simple and complete sharing and communications system that permits small companies to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and employees in disparate sites to improve their options to collaborate with customers and colleagues. In the latest release, the aggressively priced solution offers enhanced wireless capabilities including the first wireless desktop IP phone with Bluetooth technology, the SPA525G IP phone, which enables businesses to expand easily by installing handsets in places where traditional phone lines or network wiring is not present or cannot conveniently be added.

Other new pieces of the Smart Business Communications System 1.4 version include:

  • The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router to help protect a small business network and provide employees safe connectivity to the Internet and key business data from inside or outside the office
  • The Cisco Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to allow partners to simplify the setup and deployment of solutions designed specifically for individual companies

How Progent's Cisco-certified Professionals Can Assist Your Company to Incorporate Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco support professionals and Cisco CCIE networking experts can help you to evaluate the latest Cisco technologies to understand their usefulness for your environment, deploy Cisco security and communication platforms to improve the security and efficiency of your information network, and provide tech support for Cisco devices both onsite and remotely to keep your IT network running smoothly. Progent's IT professionals can provide a range of cost-effective technical services to improve the availability, security, speed, and maintainability of your IT system:

Immediate Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Engineers
Progent is the premier provider of convenient, quick, and economical help from CCIE Certified consultants. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are highly-qualified networking experts who are awarded this top-level certification only through comprehensive testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to tackle even the most challenging issues encountered with network design, integration, repair, and administration. Progent’s CCIE professionals cooperate intimately with Cisco in-house staff in identifying problems with Cisco's IOS platform and devising workarounds or obtaining software updates to correct problems. Progent can provide quick access to a CCIE by phone so that you are able to get emergency help for tough network problems that are affecting worker efficiency but are outside the scope of your ordinary IT service resources. Progent's CCIE consulting professionals can link to your environment using advanced remote connectivity technology in order to deliver fast and cost-effective diagnosis and remediation of critical network problems.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can assist your business to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent can provide expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy VoIP products to the newest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Unified CM, previously known as CallManager, or with Unified CM Express (CME) to create a state-of-the-art IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent's consultants can provide support with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving QoS, setting up SIP trunking, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE internetworking support, and designing UCS server failover and Cisco SRST solutions for survivability. For more information about Progent's technical support for Cisco's Unified Communications technology, read Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Consulting Help.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), originally known as CallManager, functions as the foundation of Cisco's collaboration portfolio. CUCM and Unified CM Express (CME) provide a modern IP-PBX solution by integrating tightly with applications such as Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for creating a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified Cisco Unified CM experts can help with any aspect of Unified Communications Manager support and debugging in areas that include integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP connections and PSTN calling, deploying ISR routers with CUBE networking support, creating UCS server failover systems for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Support
Progent’s experienced Cisco IT security consultants offer high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting support covering architecture, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and secure access services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home businesses to scalable gigabit products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of security, high throughput, and excellent reliability for network environments of all sizes. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built operating system, minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps.

Network Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISM and CISSP-certified security engineers can deliver a variety of cost-effective security Inventory service bundles and security evaluation service bundles designed to give organizations of any size a chance to get a professional opinion about the effectiveness of their security environment. These packages vary from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal security scan options for small and midsize companies up to a high-level security assessment package for corporations who need comply with security standards required by government agencies or by vendors. For every security assessment bundle, consultants with high-level security accreditations evaluate and summarize scanned information and provide suggestions for efficient improvements.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP infrastructure consultants and Cisco CUBE integration consultants can help organizations of any size to plan, integrate, maintain, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connectivity technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based SIP trunks. Progent offers cost-effective remote or onsite expertise to help you to move efficiently to an advanced communications environment that delivers accelerated ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications experts can assist you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications like Skype for Business Server and Lync for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Infrastructure
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or certified CCNP to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a wide array of wireless devices and technologies and offers the same protection, scalability, and manageability you demand from a wired network. Progent can assist you to achieve seamless integration between Cisco wireless technology and wireless technology from other vendors to offer your business the functionality you need as well as the most secure, reliable, and cost-effective wireless networking system possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security consultants can show you how to build protection into your wireless network and into your business processes.

Simplified Administration Solutions for Cisco-powered Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Certified network engineers can provide assistance with Cisco's management utilities alongside a range of powerful third-party applications to build a comprehensive network management strategy in order to keep your environment running reliably, fully utilize limited resources, guard your data, revive rapidly from hardware breakdown or deliberate assaults, and allow you to expand or reassign network resources sensibly and affordably as your company grows.

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