New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Cisco announced innovative solutions intended specifically for small company networks and engineered to provide exceptional security and collaboration at a budget-friendly price. Solutions introduced by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest release of the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a purpose-built email security device that essentially eliminates email-based threats with no set up. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint network-attached storage (NAS) appliances that offer security for important data and allow employees to share information easily. The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4, a full collaboration and communications solution that seamlessly connects sites, workers, and customers anywhere. Cisco's latest version incorporates the first wireless desktop IP phone with Bluetooth capabilities. To read Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Introduces Networking Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker
The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance protects small organizations by providing extensive defense against junk mail, viruses and phishing as well as other email-borne attacks to guard your system and business information while at the same time enhance productivity. Because the appliance blocks spam and viruses with minimal set up and stays current automatically, it avoids the expense and hassle required for setup and ongoing and administration. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance helps the throughput of networks, application servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker appliance is an end-to-end defense against email attacks by featuring a physical appliance, software, continuous patches, and product assistance in a unified bundle.

Notable features of Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance include:

• Efficiency: Assists to make sure that email attacks and junk mail are intercepted and legitimate email is accepted.
• Continuous automatic updates: Constant interaction with SenderBase services, a network database of email security threats, ensures that the Cisco Spam Blocker installs the latest patches to guard your corporate email.
• Simple installation and use: User-friendly browser-based installation tools allow you to configure Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker in nearly any network within minutes, delivering instant security for your company.
• Streamlined administration: From the moment you deploys the Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance, you get junk mail and virus filtering with minimal extra effort required from your IT group.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000
The Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems offer the robust protection and comprehensive data backup features that your company needs, at a price small organizations can afford. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 accommodates as much as to four TB of data and as many as 15 concurrent clients per chassis, provides the optimal answer for holding, sharing, and archiving your vital business data. As distinct from less advanced network-attached storage (NAS) systems, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the advanced archiving, cryptography, user authentication, and high uptime your business requires.

The Cisco NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage enclosure supports any certified disk drive. The product offers a range of capabilities in a desktop form factor engineered for small organizations. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage Chassis also provides you the flexibility to deploy the system without any connected hard disk drives, to modify the product easily, and to link several Cisco NAS chassis with one another, offering a platform that can continually grow with your business.

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

• Intelligently back up important information from every workstation and server in your organization
• Provide centralized storage and sharing of key information
• Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy automatically each version of every file archived by workers, allowing your business to restore information with ease
• Store and save digital video from your company's video surveillance cameras

Cisco SBCS
The Cisco SBCS Version 1.4 is a simple and complete sharing and communications system that enables small companies to connect at-home workers, mobile workers and employees in separate sites to improve their ability to interact with clients and teammates. In the latest release, the aggressively priced system has enhanced wireless features including the first wireless desktop IP handset with Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G wireless IP device, which enables companies to expand cost-effectively by installing handsets in locations where traditional telephone wires or network cables are missing or cannot conveniently be added.

Additional new components of the Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 are:

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router to help protect the company's network and give employees safe connectivity to the Internet and important business information from inside or outside the office
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to permit stakeholders to simplify the configuration and installation of solutions created custom for certain companies

How Progent's Cisco-certified Experts Can Help Your Company to Take Advantage of Cisco Technology
Progent's Cisco certified consultants and CCIE engineers can help your company to assess new Cisco technologies to determine their value for your IT system, deploy Cisco security and communication platforms to enhance the security and performance of your network, and troubleshoot Cisco products both onsite and remotely to keep your network running smoothly. Progent's consultants can provide a variety of affordable technical services to improve the dependability, safety, performance, and maintainability of your information network:

Quick Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Network Engineers
Progent delivers convenient, immediate, and low-cost access to Cisco CCIE engineers. CCIEs are elite network experts who earn this prestigious accreditation only through strenuous testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to handle the most complicated problems encountered with network planning, implementation, troubleshooting, and support. Progent’s CCIE professionals work closely with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS software and finding fixes or obtaining software updates to resolve anomalies. Progent offers quick access to a CCIE by phone so you can get instant help for tough network troubles that are affecting business efficiency but are beyond the expertise of your local network support providers. Progent's CCIE consulting engineers can link to your network using state-of-the-art off-site support technology in order to deliver fast and affordable analysis and repair of urgent infrastructure problems.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone experts can help your business to integrate, manage, and debug Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued VoIP products to the latest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also help your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Unified CM, originally named CallManager, or with Cisco Unified CM Express (CME) to create a modern IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent can deliver expertise with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP trunking, deploying Cisco ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and creating Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for survivability. For more information on Progent's technical support for Cisco's Unified Communications solutions, read Cisco Voice over IP and Unified Communications Engineering Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, previously branded CallManager, functions as the heart of Cisco's communications and collaboration solution. Unified Communications Manager and Unified CM Express offer a modern IP-PBX solution by integrating closely with unified messaging apps like Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Unity Connection for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for creating an advanced customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM and CallManager experts can assist with any facet of Unified Communications Manager support and troubleshooting in areas that include integrating Cisco VoIP phones and desktop video phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN support, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE networking support, creating Cisco UCS server clustering solutions for high availability, and integration with Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting Expertise
Progent’s certified Cisco network security consultants provide expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting support covering infrastructure design, configuration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack protection, and secure access services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home offices to scalable gigabit products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide advanced protection, high throughput, and high reliability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed platform, minimizing common OS-specific security gaps.

Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISM and CISSP-premier security consultants can deliver a range of budget-friendly security Inventory service bundles and security assessment service packages designed to offer organizations of all sizes an opportunity to receive an impartial opinion about the effectiveness of their security environment. These packages vary from low-cost external security scan and internal network security scan options for small businesses up to a high-end security evaluation solution for institutions who have to comply with security levels required by government regulators or by vendors. For every security assessment bundle, engineers with high-level security credentials analyze and report on scanned information and make recommendations for effective improvements.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure consultants and CUBE configuration consultants can help you to design, integrate, maintain, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers affordable remote or on-premises support to help companies to move efficiently to an advanced communications ecosystem that delivers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications consultants can help you to establish interfaces between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications such as Skype for Business Server or Lync for connectivity to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that integrates a wide array of wireless devices and technologies and provides the same security, expandability, and ease of management you expect from your wired environment. Progent can help you to achieve seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless technology and wireless devices and software from other vendors to offer your business the functionality you require plus the most secure, dependable, and economical WLAN system possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security specialists can advise you about how to design security into your WLAN and your business operations.

Automated Management Tools for Cisco-powered IT Networks
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management consultants can provide assistance with Cisco's network management utilities along with a variety of powerful third-party applications to build a comprehensive management automation solution in order to keep your network operating smoothly, conserve expensive resources, guard your data, revive rapidly from hardware breakdown or malicious assaults, and enable you to add or reassign network components intelligently and economically as your business grows.

For more information concerning Progent's support for Cisco connectivity and security solutions, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.