Cisco Premier Certified Help Cisco announced new solutions targeted specifically for small business IT networks and engineered to deliver exceptional security and connectivity for an affordable price. Products introduced by Cisco included the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 version of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a dedicated email security device that essentially eradicates email threats with no set up. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint NAS appliances that provide security for important information and enable workers to share information easily. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications solution that seamlessly interconnects sites, employees, and clients however dispersed. Cisco's current version features the industry's first cordless small-footprint VoIP handset with Bluetooth wireless support. To view Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Announces Networking Products for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker
Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Consulting Services The Spam Blocker protects small businesses by offering extensive protection against spam, viruses and worms and other email-borne attacks to guard your system and corporate data while at the same time enhance productivity. Because the device stops spam with minimal set up and stays current on its own, it eliminates the expense and time with setup and ongoing and administration. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance increases the performance of network connections, servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker is a comprehensive defense against email-born threats by featuring hardware, intelligent software, ongoing updates, and technical assistance in a unified bundle.

Key features of Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance include:

  • Efficiency: Helps to make sure that email-borne attacks and spam are caught while business email is accepted.
  • Continuous automatic updates: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase services, an online library of email safety risks, ensures that the Spam & Virus Blocker incorporates the most current updates to guard your business email.
  • Easy setup and use: Easy-to-use browser-based installation tools allow you to configure the Spam and Virus Blocker in almost any environment within minutes, delivering immediate security for your network.
  • Effortless management: As soon as your company installs the the Spam Blocker appliance, you benefit from spam and malware protection with no additional hassle demanded from your network support group.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000
NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems Consulting The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 offer the robust protection and comprehensive data backup features that your company needs, at a price small businesses can afford. The Small Business NSS3000 accommodates up to four TB of data and as many as 15 concurrent users on each chassis, provides the ideal solution for holding, accessing, and backing up your mission-critical corporate information. Unlike less sophisticated NAS systems, the Cisco NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art archiving, cryptography, user validation, and fault tolerance your organization requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis supports any certified hard disk drive. The enclosure provides a wealth of capabilities in a desktop-size footprint designed specifically for small companies. The Small Business NSS3000 Storage Chassis also provides your business the flexibility to deploy the system without any attached disks, to modify the product at any time, and to chain several NAS chassis with one another, providing a solution that can smoothly expand with your company.

Your company can use the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or 3000 to:

  • Intelligently copy important data from every workstation and server in your organization
  • Offer unified storage and distribution of important information
  • Employ Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy automatically each version of every file saved by employees, allowing your company to recover files easily
  • Record and archive video from your company's surveillance system

Smart Business Communications System
NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems Consultants The Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4 is a simple and complete collaboration and communications solution that allows small organizations to connect telecommuters, mobile workers and office workers in separate sites to enhance their options to communicate with customers and colleagues. In the latest release, the aggressively priced system offers enhanced wireless capabilities including the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP phone with built-in Bluetooth, the SPA525G wireless IP phone, which enables businesses to grow cost-effectively by deploying handsets in locations where conventional phone wires or Ethernet cables are not present or cannot easily be added.

Additional innovative components of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 are:

  • The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router product to help protect the company's network and give employees safe connectivity to the Internet and important corporate information from inside or outside the office
  • Cisco's Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to allow stakeholders to simplify the setup and deployment of solutions designed specifically for individual companies

How Progent's Certified Professionals Can Assist Your Business to Benefit from Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco consultants and Cisco CCIE engineers can assist you to evaluate new Cisco products to understand their business value for your IT system, integrate Cisco solutions to improve the security and performance of your information network, and provide tech support for Cisco devices both onsite and remotely to keep your network running smoothly. Progent's consulting experts offer a variety of low-cost technical services to improve the availability, protection, speed, and manageability of your IT network:

Quick Online Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Network Engineers
Progent can provide convenient, immediate, and cost-effective assistance from CCIE engineers. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are elite networking experts who earn this top-level classification only after thorough testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to resolve even the most sophisticated problems encountered with network design, setup, repair, and support. Progent’s CCIE professionals cooperate closely with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing issues with Cisco's IOS platform and developing fixes or obtaining patches to correct anomalies. Progent gives you quick access to a CCIE by phone so you can get emergency assistance for tough network problems that are impacting business productivity but are beyond the expertise of your ordinary IT support resources. Progent's CCIE support professionals can link to your environment using advanced remote connectivity tools in order to provide fast and affordable diagnosis and remediation of urgent network problems.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can assist your business to configure, maintain, and debug Cisco IP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued VoIP devices to the latest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist your organization to integrate your IP phones with Unified CM, previously named CallManager, or with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express to create a an advanced IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent can deliver expertise with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP gateways, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE internetworking capability, and creating UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony systems for survivability. For additional details about Progent's offerings for Cisco's Unified Communications solutions, see Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications Consulting Help.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), formerly known as CallManager, acts as the core of Cisco's communications and collaboration solution. Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Unified CM Express (CME) offer a borderless IP-PBX by integrating closely with apps that include Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Cisco Unity Express for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for creating an advanced customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified Cisco Unified CM experts can assist with any aspect of CUCM configuration and troubleshooting in areas that include integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN support, installing ISR routers with CUBE networking support, creating UCS server failover solutions for high availability, and integration with Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting Expertise
Progent’s certified Cisco network security consultants provide expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting support including infrastructure design, configuration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home businesses to scalable gigabit products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of security, performance, and excellent reliability for network environments of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed operating system, eliminating possible OS-specific security holes.

Network Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISM and CISSP-certified security engineers can provide a range of budget-friendly network security Inventory packages and network security assessment packages designed to give organizations of any size an opportunity to receive a professional look at the effectiveness of their protection profile. These packages range from low-cost external network security scan and internal security scan packages for small businesses up to a high-level network security assessment solution for enterprises who have to comply with security standards demanded by government regulators or by vendors. For each security inventory or evaluation bundle, consultants with high-level security accreditations evaluate and report on collected data and provide recommendations for efficient remediation.

Cisco SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP Trunks and CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk experts and Cisco CUBE configuration consultants can help organizations of any size to design, integrate, manage, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers cost-effective remote or on-premises support to assist you to move smoothly to a modern communications network that offers accelerated ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications consultants can assist you to establish interfaces between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms like Skype for Business and Lync Server for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that incorporates a broad range of wireless devices and technologies and provides the same security, scalability, and manageability you expect from a wired network. Progent can assist you to achieve seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless products and wireless technology from third-party suppliers to give your company the functionality you require plus the most secure, dependable, and cost-effective WLAN solution available. Progent's CISA and ISSAP security professionals can advise you about how to design security into your wireless network and into your business processes.

Simplified Management Solutions for Cisco-powered IT Networks
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management consultants can provide help with Cisco's network management tools alongside a selection of specialized third-party applications to create a comprehensive management automation strategy in order to keep your environment running smoothly, fully utilize expensive resources, guard your data, recover quickly from device breakdown or deliberate attacks, and allow you to add or reassign valuable components intelligently and affordably as your business grows.

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