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Cisco unveiled innovative solutions intended especially for small company IT networks and designed to provide exceptional security and connectivity for a budget-friendly cost. Products introduced by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest version of the SBCS.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a dedicated antispam and antivirus security device that virtually eradicates email attacks with no set up. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint NAS appliances that offer protection for valuable information and enable workers to exchange information effortlessly. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4, a complete sharing and communications solution that easily interconnects sites, workers, and customers however dispersed. The latest release incorporates the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP handset with Bluetooth support. To view Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Introduces Security and Collaboration Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
The Spam Blocker safeguards small organizations by providing extensive protection against spam, malware as well as other email attacks to guard your system and business information while at the same time improve productivity. Because the appliance stops spam and viruses right out of the box and updates automatically, it does away with the expense and time required for initial configuration and ongoing and management. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker helps the throughput of network connections, application servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker is an end-to-end solution email attacks by featuring hardware, software, ongoing patches, and technical support in a unified bundle.

Notable benefits of the Spam Blocker are:

• Precision: Helps to make sure that email-borne threats and junk mail are caught while business email is allowed through.
• Continuous automatic patches: Constant communication with SenderBase security, a network database of email safety risks, makes sure that your Cisco Spam Blocker installs the latest updates to guard your corporate email.
• Simple installation and use: User-friendly web-based setup wizards permit you to install Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance in almost any environment in minutes, delivering instant security for your business network.
• Effortless management: As soon as you installs the Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, you get junk mail and malware protection with no extra hassle demanded of your network support staff.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 offer the dependable security and comprehensive backup features that your business requires, at a price small companies can afford. The Cisco NSS3000 supports up to 4 TB of data and up to 15 simultaneous users on each enclosure, offering the ideal solution for holding, sharing, and archiving your vital business information. Unlike less advanced network-attached storage (NAS) systems, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art archiving, encryption, client validation, and service continuity your business requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure handles any certified disk drive. It provides a range of features in a desktop form factor designed specifically for small companies. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also offers you the versatility to deploy the system without any attached disk drives, to modify the product at any time, and to chain several chassis with one another, offering a solution that can continually grow with your business.

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

• Intelligently copy vital data from every PC and server in your business
• Provide centralized storage and sharing of key files
• Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to back up unattended every revision of every file archived by employees, permitting your company to restore information with ease
• Store and save video from your video surveillance system

Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 is a simple and complete collaboration and communications solution that allows small businesses to interconnect telecommuters, on-the-road workers and office workers in disparate sites to improve their options to communicate with clients and colleagues. In the latest release, the affordable solution offers enhanced wireless features such as the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP handset with built-in Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G VoIP phone, which enables businesses to expand easily by deploying phones in places where traditional telephone lines or Ethernet cables are missing or cannot easily be added.

Additional new components of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 include:

• The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router product to help guard the company's infrastructure and provide workers secure connectivity to the Internet and key corporate data remotely or locally
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to enable partners to simplify the setup and deployment of solutions created specifically for individual businesses

How Progent's Cisco-certified Experts Can Assist Your Business to Take Advantage of Cisco Technology
Progent's Cisco certified consultants and CCIE accredited networking experts can help you to assess new Cisco products to determine their appropriateness for your IT system, set up Cisco security and communication platforms to enhance the security and performance of your information network, and provide tech support for Cisco products both in person and remotely to keep your IT network operating smoothly. Progent's consulting experts can provide a variety of affordable support services to enhance the availability, protection, speed, and manageability of a small business IT network:

Immediate Online Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Network Engineers
Progent offers easy, quick, and economical access to Cisco CCIE consultants. CCIEs are highly-qualified networking experts who are awarded this prestigious accreditation only after intense testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to tackle the most complex problems encountered with network infrastructure architecture, setup, repair, and service. Progent's CCIE professionals interact intimately with Cisco engineers in identifying problems with Cisco's IOS software and finding workarounds or obtaining software updates to resolve anomalies. Progent your company quick contact with a CCIE by telephone so you are able to receive instant help for tough network troubles that are impacting worker efficiency but are beyond the expertise of your local IT support resources. Progent's CCIE support experts can access your environment via state-of-the-art off-site connectivity tools to provide fast and cost-effective diagnosis and remediation of critical network problems.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone consultants can help you to integrate, maintain, and debug Cisco IP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent offers support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP products to the newest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally named CallManager, or with Unified CM Express (CME) to build a an advanced IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can provide expertise with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, solving QoS, configuring SIP gateways, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE VoIP networking capability, and designing UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for high availability. For additional details on Progent's support for Cisco's Unified Communications technology, go to Cisco Voice over IP and Unified Communications Engineering Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), previously known as CallManager, functions as the center of Cisco's communications and collaboration platform. Unified CM and Cisco Unified CM Express provide a location-independent IP-PBX solution by integrating tightly with applications that include Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Unity Connection for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Contact Center Express (Unified CCX or CCX) for creating a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's CCIE-certified CUCM and CallManager consultants can assist with any facet of Unified Communications Manager setup and troubleshooting in areas that include integrating Voice over IP phones and video IP phones, designing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN calling, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE networking support, creating UCS server failover systems for survivability, and integration with Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Support
Progent's experienced Cisco IT security consultants provide high-level PIX and ASA Firewall consulting support covering infrastructure design, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home businesses to scalable enterprise-level products, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of protection, high throughput, and high reliability for IT systems of any size. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built platform, eliminating possible OS-specific security holes.

Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's GIAC, CISA and CISM-premier security consultants can provide a variety of cost-effective security Inventory bundles and network security evaluation bundles designed to offer organizations of any size an opportunity to receive an impartial opinion about the strength of their protection environment. These packages range from low-cost external security scan and internal security scan packages for small businesses up to a high-level security evaluation solution for institutions who have to comply with security levels demanded by state regulators or by customers. For each security inventory or evaluation bundle, engineers with top security accreditations analyze and report on scanned data and make suggestions for efficient improvements.

SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure experts and Cisco CUBE integration consultants can help you to design, deploy, manage, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based SIP trunks. Progent can provide affordable online or onsite support to help you to move efficiently to a modern communications ecosystem that delivers accelerated return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications consultants can help you to establish connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media platforms such as Skype for Business Server or Lync Server for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Solutions
Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or certified CCNP to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that incorporates a wide range of wireless products and technologies and offers the identical security, scalability, and ease of management you expect from your wired network. Progent can help you to achieve transparent interoperability between Cisco wireless products and wireless technology from third-party suppliers to give your company the features you require plus the most secure, dependable, and economical WLAN system possible. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security specialists can advise you about how to design security into your wireless network and into your company's processes.

Automated Administration Tools for Cisco-based Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Certified network management consultants can provide help with Cisco's network management utilities along with a selection of specialized third-party applications to build a complete management automation solution in order to keep your network operating reliably, conserve limited resources, guard your data, recover rapidly from device breakdown or deliberate attacks, and allow you to expand or reassign network components sensibly and affordably as your business grows.

To find out more information concerning Progent's support for Cisco connectivity and security products, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.