New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Cisco introduced new products targeted specifically for small company networks and designed to deliver high levels of protection and connectivity at a budget-friendly price. Products unveiled 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 Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a dedicated spam, virus, and phishing filter security device that essentially eradicates email-based threats with no set up. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical desktop network-attached storage devices that offer protection for important information and enable workers to share files easily. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4, a full collaboration and communications solution that seamlessly interconnects sites, employees, and customers however dispersed. The current release features the industry's debut of a wireless desktop VoIP phone with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To see Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Unveils Security and Collaboration Solutions for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
The Spam Blocker appliance protects small organizations by providing powerful protection against junk mail, viruses and other email-borne threats to guard your system and business data and simultaneously enhance productivity. Since the appliance blocks spam with minimal set up and stays current on its own, it does away with the cost and hassle associated initial configuration and continuing and management. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance increases the performance of network connections, application servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a comprehensive solution email-born threats by featuring hardware, intelligent software, ongoing updates, and technical support in a single package.

Key features of Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance include:

• Precision: Assists to make sure that email-borne attacks and junk mail are intercepted and legitimate messages are allowed through.
• Ongoing self-installed updates: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase security, an online database of email security risks, makes sure that your Spam & Virus Blocker incorporates the latest patches to safequard your corporate email.
• Easy installation and operation: Easy-to-use browser-based setup tools permit you to install the Spam Blocker appliance in almost any environment in 15 minutes, delivering immediate protection for your business.
• Effortless administration: As soon as you deploys the Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, you get spam and malware protection with no extra effort demanded of your network support staff.

Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 offer the robust protection and comprehensive backup capabilities that your business needs, at a cost small companies can afford. The NSS3000 supports up to four terabytes of data and as many as 15 simultaneous clients on each enclosure, offering the optimal answer for holding, accessing, and backing up your vital corporate information. Unlike ordinary network-attached storage alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art archiving, cryptography, user authentication, and fault tolerance your business needs.

The Cisco NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure supports any certified disk. The enclosure provides a range of features in a desktop system designed for small companies. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also offers your company the flexibility to deploy the system without any attached hard drives, to modify the product at any time, and to chain several chassis together, offering a platform that can smoothly expand with your business.

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

• Intelligently copy vital data from every desktop and server in your business
• Provide centralized preservation and sharing of key information
• Run Continuous Data Protection to copy automatically every version of every file archived by employees, allowing your business to restore data quickly
• Store and save digital video from your company's video surveillance cameras

Smart Business Communications System
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and comprehensive sharing and communications solution that permits small businesses to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and office workers in disparate sites to improve their ability to collaborate with customers and teammates. In Release 1.4, the affordable solution has enhanced wireless support such as the industry's first wireless desktop IP phone with built-in Bluetooth, the SPA525G VoIP phone, which allows businesses to expand cost-effectively by installing phones in places where traditional telephone wires or Ethernet cables are not present or cannot easily be run.

Additional new pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) 1.4 version are:

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router to help protect the company's infrastructure and give workers safe access to the Internet and key business data remotely or locally
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to allow stakeholders to simplify the setup and deployment of solutions created specifically for individual businesses

How Progent's Consulting Engineers Can Assist Your Business to Benefit from Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco support professionals and Cisco CCIE engineers can assist your company to evaluate the latest Cisco products to determine their value for your IT system, deploy Cisco security and communication platforms to enhance the protection and efficiency of your information network, and troubleshoot Cisco devices both onsite and remotely to keep your IT network operating dependably. Progent's consulting experts offer a variety of cost-effective support services to enhance the reliability, protection, performance, and manageability of a small business information network:

Quick Online Access to Cisco CCIE Engineers
Progent is the leading source of easy, quick, and economical help from CCIE Certified engineers. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are recognized network gurus who are awarded this prestigious accreditation only after comprehensive examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to handle the most complex problems associated with network design, configuration, troubleshooting, and administration. Progent’s CCIE experts work closely with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS software and developing workarounds or obtaining software updates to correct problems. Progent your company quick contact with a CCIE by phone so that you can receive urgent help for complex network troubles that are undermining business efficiency but are beyond the expertise of your ordinary IT support resources. Progent's CCIE consulting engineers can link to your environment via state-of-the-art off-site support technology to provide timely and affordable diagnosis and repair of critical network difficulties.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can help you to integrate, maintain, and debug Cisco IP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent can provide support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP products to the latest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, formerly known as CallManager, or with Cisco Unified CM Express (CME) to build a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can provide expertise with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, resolving QoS, setting up SIP gateways, deploying Cisco ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking capability, and designing Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for survivability. For more information on Progent's engineering help for Cisco's Unified Communications solutions, see Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Consulting Services.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), originally known as CallManager, acts as the core of Cisco's communications and collaboration portfolio. Cisco Unified CM and Cisco Unified CM Express provide a location-independent IP-PBX solution by integrating with apps like Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Connection for voicemail management, 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 aspect of Unified CM setup and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN calling, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, creating UCS server clustering systems for high availability, 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 engineering services including architecture, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home businesses to modular enterprise-level appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer advanced security, high throughput, and excellent availability for network environments of any size. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built operating system, eliminating common OS-specific security gaps.

Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's CISM and CISSP-certified security engineers can deliver a variety of cost-effective security Inventory service packages and network security assessment packages created to give businesses of any size an opportunity to receive an independent look at the effectiveness of their protection profile. The packages range from low-cost external security scan and internal network security scan packages for small businesses up to a high-level network security assessment solution for corporations who have to comply with security standards required by state agencies or by vendors. For each security inventory or evaluation bundle, consultants with high-level security accreditations evaluate and report on collected information and provide recommendations for effective remediation.

Cisco SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Configuration Consulting
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP infrastructure consultants and Cisco CUBE configuration consultants can assist organizations of any size to plan, integrate, manage, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE-connected SIP trunks. Progent can provide cost-effective online or onsite expertise to help companies to migrate smoothly to an advanced unified communications ecosystem that offers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications experts can help you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media applications such as Skype for Business or Lync Server for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Solutions
Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or certified CCNP to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a wide array of wireless appliances and technologies and offers the identical protection, scalability, and manageability you demand from your wired environment. Progent can help you to achieve transparent integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless devices and software from other vendors to give your company the functionality you require plus the most secure, dependable, and economical wireless networking solution possible. Progent's CISA and ISSAP security specialists can show you how to design protection into your wireless network and your business operations.

Simplified Administration Solutions for Cisco-based Small Business Networks
Progent's Cisco-Certified network consultants offer help with Cisco's network management utilities alongside a range of specialized third-party products to create a comprehensive management automation strategy to keep your network running reliably, fully utilize expensive resources, guard your data, recover rapidly from hardware failure or deliberate assaults, and allow you to expand or repurpose valuable components sensibly and affordably as your business grows.

To find out additional information concerning Progent's consulting services for Cisco networking and security solutions, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.