New IT Technology and Progent IT Solutions

Cisco announced new solutions intended specifically for small company networks and designed to deliver exceptional levels of protection and connectivity for an affordable cost. Products announced by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 release of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam Blocker appliance is a purpose-built email security product that virtually eliminates email-based attacks right out of the box. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable desktop network-attached storage (NAS) appliances that offer protection for valuable information and enable employees to share information easily. The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4, a full sharing and communications solution that seamlessly connects offices, employees, and clients however dispersed. The latest release incorporates the industry's debut of a wireless small-footprint VoIP handset with Bluetooth wireless support. To view Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Announces Networking Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
The Spam and Virus Blocker protects small organizations by providing extensive defense against spam, viruses and worms as well as other email attacks to secure your system and corporate data while at the same time enhance efficiency. Because the product blocks spam and viruses with minimal set up and updates on its own, it does away with the cost and time with initial configuration and ongoing and administration. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance increases the performance of network connections, application servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker represents a comprehensive defense against email threats by featuring a physical appliance, intelligent software, continuous updates, and technical support in a unified package.

Key features of Cisco's Spam Blocker include:

• Efficiency: Assists to make sure that email attacks and junk mail are intercepted and legitimate messages are allowed through.
• Ongoing self-installed updates: Non-stop communication with SenderBase security, a network database of email security risks, makes sure that the Cisco Spam Blocker incorporates the most current patches to guard your corporate email.
• Simple installation and use: Easy-to-use web-based setup wizards allow you to configure the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in practically any network in 15 minutes, providing immediate protection for your business.
• Streamlined administration: From the moment you deploys the the Spam Blocker, you benefit from spam and virus filtering with minimal additional effort demanded from your IT group.

Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems provide the dependable security and comprehensive data backup capabilities that your company needs, at a price small organizations can handle. The Cisco NSS3000 accommodates up to 4 terabytes of data and as many as 15 simultaneous clients on each chassis, offering the optimal solution for storing, accessing, and archiving your mission-critical corporate data. Unlike entry-level NAS alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art backup, encryption, client validation, and high uptime your business requires.

The Cisco NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis handles any approved hard drive. The enclosure provides a wealth of features in a desktop system designed for small organizations. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage enclosure also gives you the versatility to configure the system without any connected drives, to modify it easily, and to chain several chassis together, offering a solution that can smoothly expand with your company.

Your business can utilize the Cisco NSS2000 or 3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Automatically back up important information from each desktop and server in your company
• Offer unified storage and distribution of key information
• Employ Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to back up automatically every version of each file saved by workers, permitting your company to recover data quickly
• Record and archive video from your company's surveillance system

Cisco Smart Business Communications System
The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and comprehensive sharing and communications system that permits small companies to interconnect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and office workers in disparate sites to enhance their ability to interact with clients and colleagues. In Release 1.4, the aggressively priced solution offers enhanced wireless support including the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP phone with built-in Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G VoIP phone, which allows businesses to expand cost-effectively by installing handsets in places where conventional phone wires or network cables are not present or cannot easily be added.

Additional new pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 are:

• Cisco's 520 Secure Router to help guard the company's network and provide employees safe access to the Internet and key business information any time, anywhere
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to permit stakeholders to streamline the configuration and installation of solutions created specifically for certain companies

How Progent's Cisco-certified Professionals Can Assist Your Company to Take Advantage of Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco consultants and CCIE accredited engineers can assist you to assess the latest Cisco products to determine their usefulness for your environment, set up Cisco security and communication platforms 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 running smoothly. Progent's consultants can provide a range of cost-effective support services to enhance the availability, security, speed, and maintainability of your company's IT system:

Immediate Online Access to Cisco CCIE Network Engineers
Progent delivers convenient, quick, and affordable support from Cisco CCIE support professionals. CCIEs are elite networking experts who earn this top-level accreditation only as a result of intense testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to resolve even the most sophisticated issues encountered with network design, implementation, repair, and administration. Progent's CCIE professionals interact intimately with Cisco engineers in identifying issues with Cisco's IOS software and finding workarounds or acquiring software updates to resolve anomalies. Progent your company immediate access to a CCIE by telephone so you are able to receive emergency help for tough network troubles that are affecting worker productivity but are outside the scope of your ordinary network service providers. Progent's CCIE consulting experts can access your network using state-of-the-art off-site support tools to provide fast and cost-effective analysis and repair of urgent network difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can help your business to integrate, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent offers expertise for all models of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued Voice over IP products to the latest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, formerly known as CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express to create a modern IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent's consultants can deliver expertise with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP gateways, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and creating UCS server clustering and Cisco SRST systems for high availability. For additional information on Progent's offerings for Cisco's Unified Communications technology, visit Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Consulting Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally branded CallManager, acts as the core of Cisco's communications and collaboration solution. Cisco Unified CM and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express offer a modern IP-PBX solution by integrating tightly with applications such as Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for creating a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's CCIE-certified Cisco Unified CM experts can assist with any facet of CUCM support and debugging in areas such as integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop video phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN calling, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, designing UCS server clustering systems for survivability, and integration with Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent's experienced Cisco network security consulting professionals provide expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting support covering infrastructure design, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewalls delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home offices to modular gigabit products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of security, high throughput, and high availability for IT systems of any size. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed platform, minimizing possible OS-specific security holes.

Network Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC, CISA and CISM-premier security engineers can deliver a variety of cost-effective network security Inventory service bundles and network security evaluation service bundles designed to offer organizations of all sizes a chance to receive an independent look at the effectiveness of their security environment. These packages range from low-cost external security scan and internal security scan options for small and midsize businesses up to a high-end network security assessment solution for enterprises who need meet security levels required by state regulators or by vendors. For each security assessment package, engineers with high-level security accreditations analyze and report on collected information and provide suggestions for efficient improvements.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and CUBE Configuration Consulting
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP infrastructure experts and Cisco CUBE configuration experts can help you to design, deploy, maintain, debug and enhance Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connectivity technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based SIP trunks. Progent can provide affordable remote or on-premises expertise to help businesses to migrate efficiently to a productive communications network that offers accelerated ROI. Progent's certified Microsoft unified communications consultants can assist you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media applications like Skype for Business and Lync Server for access to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Products
Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional (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 identical protection, expandability, and manageability you expect from your wired environment. Progent can assist you to implement seamless integration between Cisco wireless technology and wireless products from other suppliers to give your company the features you need as well as the most secure, dependable, and economical WLAN solution available. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security consultants can advise you about how to build protection into your wireless network and your business processes.

Simplified Management Tools for Cisco-powered IT Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Certified network consultants can provide help with Cisco's management utilities along with a selection of specialized third-party applications to build a comprehensive management automation strategy in order to keep your network running smoothly, fully utilize limited resources, guard your data, recover quickly from hardware failure or malicious assaults, and enable you to expand or reassign network resources intelligently and affordably as your business evolves.

To find out additional details concerning Progent's support for Cisco connectivity and communications products, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.