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Cisco Introduces New Network Solutions for Small Businesses
Cisco unveiled new solutions intended specifically for small company networks and designed to deliver a high degree of protection and collaboration at a budget-friendly price. Solutions announced by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest version of the SBCS.
The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a dedicated spam, virus, and phishing filter security device that virtually eliminates email threats as shipped. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint network-attached storage appliances that provide protection for important information and enable workers to share information easily. The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4, a full sharing and communications solution that seamlessly connects sites, workers, and clients anywhere. Cisco's current version incorporates the industry's debut of a wireless small-footprint VoIP handset with Bluetooth capabilities. To view Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Introduces Security and Collaboration Solutions for Small Companies.
Cisco Spam Blocker
The Spam and Virus Blocker safeguards small businesses by providing extensive protection against junk mail, viruses and worms and other email-borne attacks to secure your network and business information while at the same time enhance productivity. Because the product blocks spam right out of the box and stays current on its own, it avoids the expense and hassle required for setup and ongoing and management. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance increases the performance of networks, servers, and computers. The Spam Blocker appliance represents a comprehensive solution email-born attacks by featuring hardware, intelligent software, ongoing updates, and product support in a unified bundle.
Key benefits of Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker include:
- Accuracy: Assists to ensure that email threats and junk mail are intercepted and legitimate email is delivered.
- Continuous self-installed updates: Constant communication with SenderBase security, a network library of email safety risks, ensures that your Cisco Spam Blocker appliance incorporates the most current updates to safequard your business email.
- Simple setup and operation: User-friendly web-based installation tools allow you to configure Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker in nearly any environment in 15 minutes, providing immediate protection for your business.
- Effortless management: From the moment you installs the the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you benefit from junk mail and virus protection with minimal additional hassle demanded of your network support staff.
Small Business NSS2000 and 3000
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems provide the robust security and comprehensive backup features that your business requires, at a cost small businesses can handle. The Small Business NSS3000 supports as much as to four TB of data and as many as 15 concurrent clients per enclosure, offering the ideal answer for storing, accessing, and backing up your vital business data. As distinct from ordinary network-attached storage (NAS) systems, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the advanced backup, cryptography, user validation, and fault tolerance your business needs.
The Cisco NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure handles any approved hard drive. The enclosure provides a range of features in a desktop-size system engineered for small organizations. The Small Business NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also offers you the versatility to deploy the product without any attached hard disk drives, to modify it easily, and to chain multiple chassis with one another, offering a platform that can smoothly grow with your business.
Your company can utilize the Cisco NSS2000 or 3000 to:
- Automatically back up vital information from each workstation and application server on your network
- Provide centralized storage and distribution of important files
- Employ Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy unattended every revision of each file archived by workers, allowing you to restore files with ease
- Store and archive digital video from your company's surveillance cameras
Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive sharing and communications system that allows small companies to connect at-home workers, mobile workers and employees in disparate locations to improve their ability to interact with clients and colleagues. In the latest release, the aggressively priced system has enhanced wireless support including the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP handset with built-in Bluetooth technology, the Cisco SPA525G VoIP phone, which allows companies to grow easily by deploying phones in places where traditional telephone wires or Ethernet cables are missing or cannot easily be added.
Other new pieces of the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 are:
- The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router product to help protect the company's infrastructure and give workers safe connectivity to the Internet and important corporate information remotely or locally
- The Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to enable partners to simplify the setup and deployment of solutions designed custom for certain companies
How Progent's Certified Professionals Can Assist Your Business to Take Advantage of Cisco Technology
Progent's Cisco certified support professionals and Cisco CCIE network engineers can assist you to assess the latest Cisco technologies to understand their value for your environment, deploy Cisco solutions to enhance the security and efficiency of your information network, and provide tech support for Cisco devices both in person and online to keep your IT network running dependably. Progent's consultants offer a variety of low-cost services to enhance the reliability, safety, efficiency, and manageability of your company's IT network:
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Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco VoIP phone and video IP phone consultants can help your business to configure, maintain, and debug Cisco VoIP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices to the latest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly branded CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express to build a an advanced IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent's consultants can deliver support with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving QoS, configuring SIP gateways, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE internetworking capability, and creating Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for high availability. For more details about Progent's engineering help for Cisco's Unified Communications technology, go to Cisco Voice over IP and Unified Communications Professional Expertise.
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Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly named CallManager, acts as the core of Cisco's collaboration portfolio. Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Unified CM Express (CME) provide an advanced IP-PBX solution by integrating closely with unified messaging applications that include Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Contact Center Express (Unified CCX or CCX) for creating an advanced customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM experts can assist with any aspect of CUCM support and debugging in areas that include integrating VoIP phones and video IP phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN calling, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE networking support, creating Cisco UCS server clustering systems for survivability, and integration with Exchange and Skype for Business.
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Progent's experienced Cisco IT security consultants offer expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting services covering infrastructure design, integration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home businesses to scalable enterprise-grade products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer advanced security, high throughput, and excellent availability for network environments of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built platform, minimizing common OS-specific security gaps.
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Progent's CISM and CISSP-premier security engineers can provide a range of cost-effective network security Inventory service bundles and security evaluation packages created to give organizations of all sizes an opportunity to receive an independent opinion about the quality of their protection profile. The packages vary from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal security scan packages for small companies up to a high-level security evaluation package for corporations who have to comply with security levels demanded by government regulators or by customers. For every security inventory or evaluation package, consultants with high-level security accreditations evaluate and summarize scanned data and provide suggestions for effective improvements.
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Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure consultants and CUBE configuration experts can help organizations of any size to design, integrate, manage, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE-connected SIP trunks. Progent offers cost-effective online or on-premises support to help you to migrate smoothly to a modern communications ecosystem that delivers accelerated return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration consultants can help 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 Server for access to a SIP PSTN trunk.
Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Products
Progent can provide a certified CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that integrates a wide array of wireless products and technologies and offers the identical protection, expandability, and manageability you demand from a wired environment. Progent can assist you to achieve transparent interoperability between Cisco wireless products and wireless technology from third-party vendors to give your company the functionality you need as well as the most protected, reliable, and cost-effective WLAN solution available. Progent's CISM and CISSP security consultants can show you how to build security into your wireless network and your company's operations.
Automated Administration Tools for Cisco-based Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Certified network management consultants can provide assistance with Cisco's management tools alongside a variety of powerful third-party products to create a complete network management solution to keep your environment operating smoothly, fully utilize expensive resources, guard your data, recover quickly from hardware failure or deliberate attacks, and allow you to expand or repurpose valuable components sensibly and economically as your company grows.
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