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Cisco introduced new products intended specifically for small business IT networks and designed to provide high levels of protection and collaboration at an affordable price. Products introduced by Cisco were Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 release of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a dedicated email security product that essentially eradicates email attacks right out of the box. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable desktop network-attached storage appliances that provide protection for valuable information and allow employees to exchange files easily. Cisco's SBCS Version 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications system that easily connects offices, employees, and clients anywhere. Cisco's latest version incorporates the industry's first wireless small-footprint Internet Protocol (IP) handset with Bluetooth wireless support. To read Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Unveils Connectivity and Collaboration Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker
The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance safeguards small businesses by providing extensive protection against spam, malware as well as other email-borne attacks to secure your network and corporate data while at the same time enhance efficiency. Since the device blocks spam and viruses with minimal set up and updates on its own, it avoids the expense and time required for setup and continuing and management. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker helps the throughput of networks, application servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance represents a comprehensive solution email threats by featuring a physical appliance, software, ongoing patches, and product support in a single package.

Notable benefits of Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker are:

• Precision: Assists to ensure that email-borne attacks and spam are caught while legitimate messages are allowed through.
• Continuous self-installed patches: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase services, a network database of email security risks, ensures that the Spam & Virus Blocker appliance incorporates the latest updates to protect your corporate email.
• Easy setup and operation: User-friendly web-based setup tools allow you to install the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in almost any environment in minutes, providing instant security for your company.
• Streamlined management: As soon as you installs the Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance, you benefit from junk mail and malware protection with no extra hassle required of your IT group.

Cisco NSS2000 and 3000
The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems provide the robust security and advanced data backup features that your business requires, at a cost small businesses can handle. The Cisco NSS3000 supports as much as to four TB of data and up to 15 simultaneous users on each enclosure, offering the ideal solution for holding, sharing, and backing up your mission-critical corporate data. As distinct from less sophisticated network-attached storage alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art archiving, cryptography, client authentication, and high availability your company requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure handles any certified disk drive. The enclosure offers a wealth of capabilities in a desktop-size system engineered specifically for small companies. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also provides your business the flexibility to configure the product without any attached hard disks, to modify the product easily, and to chain multiple chassis together, offering a platform that can smoothly grow with your company.

Your company can use the Cisco NSS2000 or 3000 to:

• Intelligently back up important information from every desktop and application server in your business
• Offer centralized preservation and distribution of key files
• Employ Continuous Data Protection to back up unattended every revision of each file saved by employees, allowing your business to recover information easily
• Store and archive video from your surveillance cameras

Smart Business Communications System
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and complete collaboration and communications solution that allows small companies to connect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and office workers in separate sites to improve their ability to collaborate with clients and colleagues. In the new release, the aggressively priced solution has improved wireless capabilities such as the first wireless desktop IP handset with Bluetooth, the SPA525G wireless IP device, which allows companies to grow easily by adding phones in locations where conventional telephone lines or Ethernet cables are not present or cannot easily be run.

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

• Cisco's 520 Secure Router product to help guard a small business infrastructure and give workers safe access to the Internet and key business information wherever they are
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to allow stakeholders to streamline the setup and deployment of solutions designed custom for certain companies

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