New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Cisco unveiled innovative solutions intended specifically for small business networks and engineered to provide a high degree of protection and collaboration for an affordable price. Solutions unveiled by Cisco were Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest version of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a dedicated email security device that essentially eliminates email attacks with no set up. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint NAS devices that offer security for valuable data and enable employees to exchange information easily. The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications solution that seamlessly connects offices, workers, and clients however dispersed. The current version incorporates the first cordless small-footprint Internet Protocol (IP) handset with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To view Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Introduces Connectivity and Collaboration Products for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
The Spam and Virus Blocker protects small companies by providing extensive protection against spam, malware as well as other email-borne threats to secure your network and corporate information while improve productivity. Since the device blocks spam with minimal set up and updates automatically, it eliminates the expense and hassle associated setup and ongoing and administration. By filtering out spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance increases the performance of networks, application servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker represents an end-to-end solution email threats by including hardware, software, continuous updates, and product support in a unified package.

Key benefits of Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker are:

• Efficiency: Assists to make sure that email threats and spam are caught and legitimate messages are accepted.
• Ongoing automatic patches: Constant communication with SenderBase security, a network database of email security risks, makes sure that the Spam & Virus Blocker appliance incorporates the most current patches to safequard your corporate email.
• Easy installation and use: User-friendly web-based setup wizards permit you to install the Spam Blocker in practically any environment within 15 minutes, delivering immediate protection for your business network.
• Effortless administration: As soon as you deploys the the Spam Blocker appliance, you benefit from junk mail and malware filtering with minimal extra hassle demanded of your network support group.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems offer the robust protection and advanced backup capabilities that your business requires, at a price small companies can afford. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 accommodates up to four terabytes of data and up to 15 simultaneous users on each chassis, offering the ideal answer for storing, sharing, and backing up your vital corporate data. As distinct from entry-level NAS systems, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art backup, encryption, client validation, and high uptime your company needs.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage enclosure handles any certified disk. The chassis provides a wealth of capabilities in a desktop form factor designed specifically for small organizations. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also gives you the flexibility to deploy the product without any connected disk drives, to reconfigure it easily, and to link multiple Cisco NAS chassis with one another, offering a solution that can continually expand with your company.

Your business can use the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or 3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Intelligently back up important data from each workstation and server in your business
• Provide centralized storage and distribution of important files
• Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to back up unattended each version of every file archived by employees, permitting your business to restore data quickly
• Store and archive video from your company's surveillance system

Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Cisco SBCS Version 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive collaboration and communications solution that permits small organizations to connect telecommuters, on-the-road workers and employees in disparate locations to improve their ability to interact with clients and teammates. In Release 1.4, the aggressively priced solution has improved wireless features including the industry's first wireless desktop IP handset with built-in Bluetooth, the SPA525G wireless IP phone, which allows companies to grow easily by adding phones in places where traditional telephone wires or Ethernet wiring is not present or cannot easily be added.

Additional new components of the Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 include:

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router to help protect a small business infrastructure and provide employees safe connectivity to the Internet and important business data wherever they are
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to permit partners to simplify the setup and deployment of solutions designed specifically for certain businesses

How Progent's Consulting Experts Can Help Your Business to Deploy Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco certified support professionals and CCIE network engineers can assist you to assess new Cisco products to determine their business value for your environment, set up Cisco security and communication platforms to enhance the security and performance of your network, and maintain Cisco products both in person and online to keep your IT network running dependably. Progent's IT professionals offer a range of cost-effective services to enhance the dependability, protection, performance, and maintainability of your company's information system:

Immediate Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Network Engineers
Progent delivers easy, quick, and affordable access to Cisco CCIE engineers. CCIEs are elite network gurus who earn this top-level classification only through intense examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to resolve even the most sophisticated problems associated with IT network architecture, deployment, troubleshooting, and service. Progent's CCIE experts interact intimately with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS software and developing fixes or acquiring patches to correct anomalies. Progent your company quick contact with a CCIE by telephone so that you are able to receive instant assistance for complex network troubles that are undermining business efficiency but are beyond the expertise of your ordinary network service providers. Progent's CCIE consulting professionals can access your environment using advanced off-site connectivity tools to deliver fast and cost-effective analysis and repair of urgent infrastructure problems.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco VoIP phone and video IP phone consultants can assist you to configure, manage, and debug Cisco VoIP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued VoIP products to the latest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist you to integrate your IP phones with Unified CM, previously named CallManager, or with Cisco Unified CM Express (CME) to build a modern IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can provide expertise with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving QoS, configuring SIP gateways, installing ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking capability, and designing Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony systems for high availability. For more details on Progent's services for Cisco's Unified Communications technology, visit Cisco Voice over IP and Unified Communications Engineering Help.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), formerly known as CallManager, is the heart of Cisco's collaboration solution. Unified CM and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) offer a location-independent IP-PBX by integrating closely with applications that include Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for building an advanced customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM experts can assist with any facet of Unified Communications Manager support and troubleshooting in areas that include integrating Voice over IP phones and desktop video IP phones, designing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN support, installing ISR routers with CUBE support, creating UCS server failover systems for high availability, and integration with Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting Expertise
Progent's experienced Cisco network security consulting professionals provide expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services including architecture, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and secure access services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home businesses to scalable gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide advanced security, performance, and excellent availability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built platform, minimizing possible OS-specific security holes.

Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's GIAC, CISA and CISM-certified security engineers can provide a range of budget-friendly network security Inventory bundles and security assessment packages designed to offer organizations of any size an opportunity to receive an impartial opinion about the quality of their protection environment. The packages range from low-cost external security scan and internal security scan options for small and midsize businesses up to a high-end security evaluation package for institutions who need meet security standards required by government agencies or by vendors. For each security assessment bundle, engineers with top security accreditations analyze and report on scanned data and make suggestions for effective improvements.

Cisco SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk experts and CUBE configuration consultants can help your business to design, integrate, maintain, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers cost-effective remote or on-premises expertise to assist companies to migrate smoothly to a productive communications network that delivers accelerated return on investment. Progent's certified Microsoft collaboration experts can help you to configure connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media platforms such as Skype for Business Server or Lync for access to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Products
Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or certified CCNP to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a wide array of wireless devices and technologies and provides the same security, expandability, and manageability you demand from a wired network. Progent can assist you to implement seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless products and wireless devices and software from third-party suppliers to offer your company the functionality you need plus the most protected, dependable, and economical wireless networking system possible. Progent's CISA and ISSAP security consultants can advise you about how to build protection into your wireless network and into your company's operations.

Simplified Management Solutions for Cisco-based IT Networks
Progent's Cisco-Certified network management engineers offer help with Cisco's management technology along with a range of specialized third-party products to build a comprehensive network management solution in order to keep your environment running reliably, conserve expensive resources, guard your data, revive quickly from device failure or deliberate assaults, and allow you to expand or reassign network resources intelligently and affordably as your company grows.

To find out more details concerning Progent's support for Cisco networking and communications solutions, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.