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Cisco introduced innovative solutions intended specifically for small company networks and designed to provide exceptional security and connectivity for an affordable price. 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 Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam Blocker appliance is a dedicated antispam and antivirus security device that essentially eliminates email threats as shipped. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable desktop NAS devices that provide protection for important data and allow employees to exchange information easily. The Cisco SBCS Version 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications system that easily connects offices, employees, and customers anywhere. Cisco's current release incorporates the debut of a cordless small-footprint IP phone with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To view Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Unveils Networking Products for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker
The Spam and Virus Blocker safeguards small companies by providing extensive protection against spam, viruses and worms and other email attacks to secure your network and business data and simultaneously enhance productivity. Because the product blocks spam and viruses with minimal set up and stays current on its own, it eliminates the cost and hassle associated setup and ongoing and administration. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker helps the throughput of networks, application servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is an end-to-end solution email-born attacks by including hardware, software, continuous patches, and product support in a single bundle.

Notable benefits of the Spam Blocker appliance are:

• Accuracy: Assists to ensure that email-borne attacks and spam are intercepted while legitimate messages are allowed through.
• Continuous automatic updates: Constant interaction with SenderBase security, an online library of email security threats, ensures that your Spam & Virus Blocker appliance incorporates the latest patches to protect your corporate email.
• Simple installation and operation: Easy-to-use browser-based installation tools allow you to install the Spam Blocker appliance in almost any network within minutes, providing immediate security for your network.
• Streamlined administration: As soon as you installs the Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you get spam and virus protection with no extra hassle demanded from your network support group.

Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 provide the robust protection and comprehensive data backup features that your company requires, at a price small organizations can afford. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 supports up to four terabytes of data and up to 15 simultaneous clients on each chassis, offering the optimal solution for holding, accessing, and backing up your vital corporate information. Unlike entry-level network-attached storage (NAS) systems, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art backup, encryption, client authentication, and service continuity your company needs.

The Cisco NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis supports any approved disk drive. The product provides a range of capabilities in a desktop-size form factor engineered specifically for small companies. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also offers your company the flexibility to deploy the system without any attached disks, to reconfigure it easily, and to link several Cisco NAS chassis together, offering a solution that can continually expand with your business.

Your business can use the NSS2000 or NSS3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Intelligently back up vital information from each PC and application server in your company
• Provide unified preservation and sharing of key files
• Run Continuous Data Protection to back up automatically each revision of each file saved by workers, permitting your company to recover files easily
• Record and archive digital video from your surveillance system

Cisco SBCS
The Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and comprehensive collaboration and communications system that enables small companies to connect telecommuters, mobile workers and office workers in disparate locations to enhance their ability to interact with clients and colleagues. In Release 1.4, the affordable system has enhanced wireless support such as the industry's first wireless desktop IP phone with built-in Bluetooth technology, the Cisco SPA525G wireless IP device, which enables companies to expand cost-effectively by deploying phones in places where traditional phone lines or network wiring is not present or cannot conveniently be run.

Other innovative components of the Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 include:

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router to help guard the company's infrastructure and give employees secure access to the Internet and key corporate data any time, anywhere
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to permit partners to streamline the setup and installation of solutions created custom for certain businesses

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Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
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