New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

Cisco unveiled new solutions intended specifically for small company IT networks and engineered to provide outstanding security and collaboration at an affordable price. Solutions unveiled by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest release of the Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a dedicated spam, virus, and phishing filter security product that virtually 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 valuable data and enable workers to access shared information easily. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4, a full sharing and communications solution that easily interconnects sites, workers, and customers however dispersed. The current release features the industry's debut of a wireless desktop Internet Protocol (IP) phone with Bluetooth support. To view Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Introduces Connectivity and Collaboration Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
The Spam Blocker appliance protects small companies by providing powerful protection against spam, viruses and phishing as well as other email threats to secure your network and corporate information while at the same time improve productivity. Because the device blocks spam right out of the box and updates automatically, it avoids the expense and time required for initial configuration and ongoing and administration. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker increases the throughput of networks, servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker represents an end-to-end defense against email-born attacks by featuring a physical appliance, software, continuous patches, and product assistance in a single bundle.

Key benefits of the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance include:

• Efficiency: Assists to make sure that email-borne threats and junk mail are intercepted while legitimate email is allowed through.
• Ongoing self-installed updates: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase services, an online library of email safety threats, makes sure that your Spam & Virus Blocker appliance installs the most current updates to safequard your corporate email.
• Easy setup and use: Easy-to-use browser-based setup wizards allow you to configure the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in nearly any network within minutes, providing immediate security for your business.
• Streamlined management: As soon as you installs the the Spam and Virus Blocker, you benefit from spam and virus protection with minimal extra hassle demanded from your IT group.

Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems provide the dependable protection and advanced backup features that your business requires, at a cost small organizations can handle. The Cisco NSS3000 supports as much as to 4 terabytes of data and up to 15 simultaneous users per chassis, offering the ideal solution for storing, sharing, and archiving your vital business data. Unlike entry-level NAS alternatives, the Small Business NSS3000 provides the advanced archiving, encryption, user authentication, and high uptime your company requires.

The Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis handles any approved hard disk drive. It offers a wealth of features in a desktop form factor designed for small organizations. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage enclosure also offers your business the versatility to deploy the system without any attached disk drives, to reconfigure the product easily, and to link multiple Cisco NAS chassis with one another, providing a platform that can smoothly expand with your business.

Your company can use the Cisco NSS2000 or NSS3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Intelligently copy important data from every desktop and application server in your organization
• Offer centralized preservation and distribution of important files
• Run Continuous Data Protection to back up unattended each revision of every file archived by employees, allowing your company to restore information quickly
• Record and save digital video from your video security cameras

Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and complete collaboration and communications system that enables small businesses to connect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and employees in separate locations to improve their ability to collaborate with customers and colleagues. In Release 1.4, the affordable solution has enhanced wireless support including the first wireless desktop VoIP handset with Bluetooth, the SPA525G VoIP device, which allows companies to expand easily by deploying phones in locations where traditional telephone lines or network cables are missing or cannot conveniently be added.

Additional innovative pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System 1.4 version are:

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router product to help protect a small business infrastructure and give employees safe connectivity to the Internet and important business information from either side of the firewall
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to permit partners to simplify the setup and installation of solutions designed custom for individual companies

How Progent's Cisco-certified Professionals Can Help You to Benefit from Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco-qualified support professionals and CCIE accredited network engineers can assist you to evaluate the latest Cisco technologies to determine their appropriateness for your IT system, integrate Cisco security and communication platforms to improve the security and efficiency of your information network, and troubleshoot Cisco devices both in person and online to keep your network operating dependably. Progent's consulting experts offer a range of affordable services to improve the availability, safety, efficiency, and manageability of a small business information system:

Immediate Online Access to Cisco CCIE Network Engineers
Progent is the leading source of convenient, immediate, and cost-effective help from CCIE support professionals. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are elite networking gurus who are awarded this top-level classification only through strenuous testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to handle the most complicated problems associated with network architecture, configuration, repair, and maintenance. Progent’s CCIE consultants cooperate intimately with Cisco in-house staff in identifying problems with Cisco's IOS software and devising workarounds or acquiring patches to correct anomalies. Progent gives you quick contact with a CCIE by telephone so you can receive urgent assistance for complex network problems that are impacting business productivity but are beyond the scope of your ordinary IT service resources. Progent's CCIE consulting experts can link to your environment via advanced remote connectivity tools in order to deliver fast and cost-effective diagnosis and repair of urgent infrastructure problems.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can help your business to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent offers support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices to the latest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also help your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly known as CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to build a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent's consultants can provide support with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP trunking, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and designing UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for high availability. For more information about Progent's expertise for Cisco's IP voice and video technology, read Cisco Voice over IP and Unified Communications Engineering Support.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM), previously named CallManager, operates as the core of Cisco's communications and collaboration portfolio. Cisco Unified CM and Unified CM Express (CME) provide a borderless IP-PBX solution by integrating closely with unified messaging apps that include Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for building an advanced customer contact center. Progent's CCIE-certified CUCM consultants can help with any aspect of Unified Communications Manager support and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating Cisco VoIP phones and video IP phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN support, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, designing Cisco UCS server clustering 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 consultants offer high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall engineering support covering infrastructure design, integration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and safe access services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-class products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide advanced security, performance, and excellent reliability for IT systems of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed operating system, minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC, CISA and CISM-premier security consultants can provide a variety of cost-effective security Inventory service bundles and network security assessment packages created to offer organizations of all sizes a chance to receive a professional look at the quality of their protection environment. The packages vary from low-cost external network security scan and internal network security scan options for small businesses up to a high-end network security evaluation package for enterprises who need meet security standards demanded by government agencies or by vendors. For every security assessment bundle, consultants with top security credentials analyze and report on collected data and provide suggestions for effective improvements.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and CUBE Integration Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure consultants and Cisco CUBE integration consultants can help you to design, integrate, maintain, troubleshoot and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based IP PSTN trunks. Progent can provide cost-effective remote or onsite expertise to assist businesses to migrate efficiently to a modern unified communications ecosystem that delivers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications consultants can assist you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications like Skype for Business and Lync for access to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Solutions
Progent can give you access to a certified CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a wide range of wireless products and technologies and provides the identical security, scalability, and ease of management you expect from your wired environment. Progent can help you to achieve transparent interoperability between Cisco wireless technology and wireless technology from other suppliers to offer your business the features you need plus the most secure, dependable, and cost-effective wireless networking solution possible. Progent's CISA and ISSAP security specialists can advise you about how to design security into your WLAN and your company's operations.

Simplified Management Tools for Cisco-based Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management consultants offer assistance with Cisco's network management technology alongside a variety of specialized third-party products to build a comprehensive management automation strategy in order to keep your environment operating smoothly, conserve limited resources, protect your data, recover rapidly from hardware failure or deliberate attacks, and enable you to add or repurpose network components intelligently and affordably as your business evolves.

To learn more information about Progent's consulting support for Cisco connectivity and security technology, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.