New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

Cisco unveiled new solutions targeted specifically for small business IT networks and engineered to provide exceptional protection and connectivity at a budget-friendly cost. Products introduced by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest release of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a purpose-built antispam and antivirus security product that essentially eradicates email threats with no set up. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint network-attached storage appliances that offer protection for valuable data and allow workers to access shared files easily. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4, a complete sharing and communications system that easily connects offices, workers, and customers however dispersed. The current version incorporates the industry's first wireless desktop Internet Protocol (IP) handset with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To view Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Introduces Networking Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker
The Spam and Virus Blocker protects small companies by offering extensive defense against junk mail, viruses and other email-borne attacks to secure your system and business information and simultaneously improve efficiency. Since the product blocks spam with minimal set up and stays current automatically, it does away with the expense and hassle with setup and continuing and management. By filtering out spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker helps the throughput of networks, application servers, and computers. The Spam and Virus Blocker represents a comprehensive defense against email-born threats by featuring hardware, intelligent software, ongoing patches, and product support in a single bundle.

Key benefits of the Spam and Virus Blocker include:

• Precision: Assists to ensure that email threats and spam are caught while legitimate email is allowed through.
• Continuous automatic updates: Constant interaction with SenderBase services, a network library of email safety risks, ensures that your Cisco Spam Blocker appliance installs the most current patches to guard your business email.
• Simple setup and use: User-friendly browser-based installation wizards allow you to configure the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in nearly any network in minutes, providing instant security for your business.
• Streamlined management: As soon as you deploys the Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance, you benefit from spam and malware protection with no additional hassle demanded from your network support group.

Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000
The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 offer the robust protection and advanced data backup features that your business requires, at a cost small organizations can afford. The Cisco NSS3000 accommodates as much as to four TB of data and up to 15 simultaneous users on each enclosure, provides the optimal solution for storing, accessing, and archiving your vital business information. Unlike entry-level NAS systems, the Small Business NSS3000 delivers the advanced backup, encryption, client validation, and fault tolerance your company needs.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage Chassis supports any certified disk. The product provides a wealth of capabilities in a desktop footprint designed for small businesses. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage enclosure also gives your company the flexibility to deploy the product without any attached disks, to reconfigure it at any time, and to link several chassis together, offering a platform that can smoothly expand with your business.

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

• Automatically copy vital information from every workstation and server in your business
• Offer centralized preservation and distribution of key files
• Employ Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to back up automatically every revision of each file archived by employees, allowing your company to recover information with ease
• Record and archive digital video from your company's video surveillance cameras

Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and complete collaboration and communications system that permits small businesses to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and office workers in disparate locations to improve their options to communicate with clients and teammates. In the latest release, the aggressively priced solution has improved wireless support such as the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP handset with built-in Bluetooth, the SPA525G IP device, which allows businesses to expand cost-effectively by adding phones in locations where traditional telephone lines or network wiring is not present or cannot conveniently be added.

Other innovative components of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 include:

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router to help protect a small business network and give employees secure access to the Internet and key business data from either side of the firewall
• The Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to enable stakeholders to streamline the setup and deployment of solutions designed specifically for individual businesses

How Progent's Certified Experts Can Assist Your Business to Benefit from Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco-qualified support professionals and CCIE network engineers can help your company to evaluate new Cisco products to determine their appropriateness for your environment, set up Cisco solutions to enhance the protection and efficiency of your information network, and provide tech support for Cisco devices both onsite and online to keep your network operating smoothly. Progent's IT professionals can provide a variety of cost-effective technical services to improve the availability, security, performance, and manageability of a small business information system:

Immediate Online Access to Cisco CCIE Certified Network Engineers
Progent can provide convenient, immediate, and low-cost support from Cisco CCIE consultants. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are elite networking gurus who earn this prestigious accreditation only through intense examination by Cisco. CCIEs can handle the most complicated issues associated with network infrastructure architecture, setup, repair, and maintenance. Progent’s CCIE consultants cooperate closely with Cisco in-house staff in identifying issues with Cisco's IOS platform and devising fixes or acquiring software updates to correct problems. Progent your company immediate access to a CCIE by phone so you are able to receive emergency assistance for tough network troubles that are impacting business productivity but are beyond the expertise of your local network service resources. Progent's CCIE support professionals can access your environment using advanced remote support technology in order to deliver fast and cost-effective analysis and remediation of critical infrastructure problems.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone consultants can help your business to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Cisco IP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices 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 Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally named CallManager, or with Cisco Unified CM Express to build a an advanced IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent's consultants can deliver support with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP trunking, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE internetworking capability, and creating UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for survivability. For additional information about Progent's technical support for Cisco's collaboration technology, read Cisco VoIP and Unified Communications Engineering Support.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), originally branded CallManager, acts as the foundation of Cisco's collaboration solution. Unified Communications Manager and Unified Communications Manager Express offer a borderless IP-PBX by integrating with unified messaging applications such as Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for building an advanced customer contact solution. Progent's CCIE-certified Cisco Unified CM consultants can help with any facet of CUCM configuration and debugging in areas that include integrating Cisco VoIP phones and video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP connections and PSTN calling, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE networking support, designing UCS server failover solutions for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent’s experienced Cisco IT security consulting professionals offer high-level PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services covering infrastructure design, configuration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack protection, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of protection, high throughput, and high reliability for network environments of all sizes. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed operating system, eliminating common OS-specific security gaps.

Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's CISA, CISM and CISSP-certified security consultants can deliver a range of cost-effective security Inventory packages and network security assessment service bundles designed to give businesses of any size a chance to get a professional look at the strength of their security environment. These packages vary from ultra-affordable external network security scan and internal security scan options for small and midsize businesses up to a high-end security assessment package for enterprises who have to meet security standards required by government regulators or by customers. For each security inventory or evaluation package, consultants with high-level security accreditations analyze and report on collected information and make recommendations for efficient remediation.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk experts and CUBE integration experts can help organizations of any size to plan, integrate, manage, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent can provide cost-effective remote or onsite expertise to help companies to migrate efficiently to a modern communications network that delivers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can assist you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's rich media platforms such as Skype for Business and Lync for connectivity to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Infrastructure
Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or certified CCNP to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that integrates a wide array of wireless appliances and technologies and offers the same security, expandability, and ease of management you demand from your wired environment. Progent can assist you to implement seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless technology and wireless products from third-party vendors to give your company the functionality you need as well as the most protected, dependable, and economical wireless networking system available. Progent's CISM and CISSP security consultants can show you how to build security into your WLAN and your business processes.

Automated Administration Solutions for Cisco-based Small Business Networks
Progent's Cisco-Certified network management engineers offer assistance with Cisco's management utilities alongside a selection of specialized third-party applications to build a complete management automation solution in order to keep your environment running smoothly, conserve expensive resources, guard your information, recover rapidly from device failure or malicious assaults, and enable you to expand or reassign valuable resources sensibly and economically as your company grows.

To learn additional details concerning Progent's support services for Cisco networking and communications technology, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.