New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Cisco unveiled innovative products targeted especially for small company networks and engineered to provide exceptional security and collaboration at a budget-friendly price. Products introduced by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 version of the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a dedicated email security product that essentially eliminates email-based threats right out of the box. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint network-attached storage devices that offer security for important data and allow employees to access shared files effortlessly. The Cisco SBCS Version 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications system that seamlessly connects offices, employees, and customers however dispersed. The current release features the industry's debut of a cordless small-footprint IP phone with Bluetooth wireless support. To read Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Introduces Connectivity and Collaboration Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance protects small companies by providing extensive protection against spam, viruses and phishing and other email threats to secure your network and corporate data while improve efficiency. Because the appliance stops spam and viruses right out of the box and stays current automatically, it avoids the expense and time associated initial configuration and ongoing and management. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance increases the performance of networks, servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker is a comprehensive defense against email threats by including hardware, software, ongoing updates, and product support in a single bundle.

Notable benefits of Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker include:

• Efficiency: Assists to make sure that email attacks and junk mail are caught while legitimate email is accepted.
• Ongoing automatic patches: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase services, an online library of email safety risks, ensures that your Cisco Spam Blocker installs the most current updates to safequard your corporate email.
• Simple setup and operation: Easy-to-use browser-based installation tools allow you to configure the Spam Blocker appliance in nearly any network in 15 minutes, delivering instant security for your network.
• Effortless administration: As soon as you installs the the Spam and Virus Blocker, you get spam and malware protection with minimal extra effort demanded from your network support group.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
The Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 offer the dependable protection and advanced backup features that your company requires, at a price small companies can afford. The Cisco NSS3000 accommodates as much as to four terabytes of data and as many as 15 simultaneous clients on each chassis, provides the ideal solution for holding, sharing, and archiving your mission-critical business data. As distinct from entry-level network-attached storage alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art archiving, encryption, client authentication, and fault tolerance your business requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage enclosure handles any certified drive. The enclosure provides a wealth of features in a desktop-size form factor designed for small organizations. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage Chassis also offers you the flexibility to deploy the product without any attached drives, to modify the product at any time, and to link multiple Cisco NAS chassis with one another, offering a platform that can smoothly expand with your business.

Your company can utilize the Cisco NSS2000 or NSS3000 to:

• Intelligently copy vital data from each desktop and application server on your network
• Provide unified storage and sharing of key information
• Employ Continuous Data Protection to back up automatically each revision of each file archived by employees, allowing you to recover information easily
• Record and archive digital video from your video surveillance system

Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Cisco SBCS Version 1.4 is a simple and complete collaboration and communications system that allows small companies to interconnect telecommuters, mobile workers and office workers in disparate sites to improve their options to collaborate with clients and teammates. In the latest release, the affordable solution offers enhanced wireless support such as the first wireless desktop IP phone with Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G wireless IP device, which allows companies to expand easily by adding handsets in places where conventional telephone lines or network cables are missing or cannot easily be added.

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

• Cisco's 520 Secure Router to help guard the company's infrastructure and provide employees safe access to the Internet and important business information wherever they are
• The Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to permit partners to streamline the configuration and deployment of solutions designed custom for certain companies

How Progent's Consulting Engineers Can Assist You to Benefit from Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco consultants and CCIE accredited engineers can help you to evaluate the latest Cisco products to understand their business value for your IT system, set up Cisco solutions to improve the security and performance of your information network, and troubleshoot Cisco devices both onsite and online to keep your network running dependably. Progent's IT professionals offer a variety of affordable support services to enhance the reliability, protection, speed, and manageability of your company's information network:

Immediate Online Access to Cisco CCIE Engineers
Progent is the premier provider of easy, immediate, and low-cost support from registered CCIE engineers. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are highly-qualified network gurus who are awarded this top-level classification only as a result of strenuous testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to resolve the most complex problems encountered with IT network architecture, implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Progent's CCIE professionals cooperate closely with Cisco in-house staff in identifying issues with Cisco's IOS software and developing fixes or acquiring patches to resolve problems. Progent can provide fast contact with a CCIE by telephone so that you are able to get instant help for complex network problems that are undermining worker efficiency but are beyond the expertise of your ordinary IT service resources. Progent's CCIE consulting experts can access your environment via state-of-the-art off-site connectivity technology to provide timely and affordable diagnosis and repair of critical network difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can help you to integrate, maintain, and troubleshoot Cisco IP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent can provide expertise for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy VoIP products to the newest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Unified CM, previously named CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to create a an advanced IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent can deliver support with all aspects of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP trunking, deploying Cisco ISR routers with CUBE internetworking capability, and creating Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony systems for survivability. For additional information concerning Progent's services for Cisco's collaboration technology, read Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Professional Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally named CallManager, acts as the center of Cisco's communications and collaboration portfolio. Cisco Unified CM and Cisco Unified CM Express provide a modern IP-PBX by integrating with unified messaging apps like Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for building a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM experts can assist with any aspect of Unified CM setup and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating Voice over IP phones and desktop video IP phones, designing dial plans, setting up SIP connections and PSTN support, deploying ISR routers with CUBE support, creating Cisco UCS server clustering systems for survivability, and integration with Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent's certified Cisco network security consultants provide expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting support covering infrastructure design, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-class products, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide advanced security, performance, and excellent reliability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built platform, minimizing common 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 packages and network security assessment packages designed to give organizations of any size a chance to receive an independent look at the strength of their protection profile. The packages range from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal network security scan packages for small businesses up to a high-end security assessment solution for enterprises who have to meet security standards demanded by government regulators or by customers. For every security assessment package, consultants with high-level security credentials analyze and report on scanned information and make suggestions for efficient improvements.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Integration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk consultants and Cisco CUBE configuration consultants can assist your business to design, integrate, manage, troubleshoot and upgrade Cisco's SIP connectivity technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers cost-effective online or onsite support to assist you to move efficiently to an advanced unified communications network that offers fast return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration consultants can assist you to establish connections between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's rich media platforms like Skype for Business and Lync for connectivity to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Infrastructure
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that incorporates a wide range of wireless products and technologies and provides the identical protection, scalability, and manageability you expect from a wired network. Progent can help you to achieve transparent integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless devices and software from third-party vendors to give your company the functionality you require plus the most secure, reliable, and economical wireless networking system available. Progent's CISM and CISSP security specialists can show you how to design security into your wireless network and your business processes.

Automated Administration Tools for Cisco-based Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network engineers offer assistance with Cisco's network management utilities alongside a variety of specialized third-party applications to create a comprehensive network management strategy in order to keep your network running reliably, conserve limited resources, guard your information, recover rapidly from hardware breakdown or malicious assaults, and enable you to expand or reassign valuable resources sensibly and affordably as your company grows.

To find out additional details concerning Progent's consulting support for Cisco connectivity and security technology, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.