Cisco Premier Certified Support Services Cisco announced innovative solutions targeted specifically for small company networks and designed to provide high levels of security and collaboration for an affordable cost. Products unveiled by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 version of the Cisco SBCS.

The Cisco Spam Blocker appliance is a purpose-built email security product that virtually eradicates email attacks as shipped. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint NAS devices that offer protection for important data and allow workers to exchange information easily. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4, a full collaboration and communications solution that seamlessly connects offices, employees, and clients anywhere. The latest version features the industry's first cordless desktop Internet Protocol (IP) handset with Bluetooth wireless support. To see Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Unveils Networking Solutions for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam Blocker
Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Consulting and Support The Spam and Virus Blocker safeguards small businesses by offering powerful protection against spam, viruses and worms as well as other email-borne threats to guard your network and business data while improve efficiency. Since the appliance stops spam with minimal set up and stays current automatically, it eliminates the expense and hassle associated initial configuration and continuing and administration. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker helps the performance of network connections, servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is an end-to-end defense against email attacks by including hardware, intelligent software, ongoing patches, and product support in a unified package.

Notable features of Cisco's Spam Blocker include:

  • Efficiency: Helps to ensure that email-borne attacks and spam are intercepted while legitimate email is allowed through.
  • Continuous automatic updates: Non-stop communication with SenderBase services, a network library of email safety threats, makes sure that the Cisco Spam Blocker installs the latest updates to guard your corporate email.
  • Easy setup and operation: Easy-to-use browser-based installation tools permit you to install Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in nearly any network within 15 minutes, providing immediate security for your business network.
  • Effortless administration: As soon as you deploys the Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance, you benefit from spam and virus protection with minimal additional effort demanded from your network support group.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems Consulting The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 offer the dependable protection and advanced data backup features that your company needs, at a price small businesses can afford. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 supports as much as to four TB of data and as many as 15 simultaneous users per chassis, offering the optimal solution for holding, sharing, and backing up your vital corporate data. As distinct from entry-level NAS alternatives, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 delivers the advanced backup, encryption, user validation, and fault tolerance your company requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure handles any approved hard disk. It provides a range of capabilities in a desktop-size form factor designed for small organizations. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage Chassis also gives you the flexibility to configure the product without any connected hard disks, to modify it easily, and to link several chassis with one another, providing a platform that can smoothly grow with your company.

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

  • Intelligently copy important information from every workstation and application server on your network
  • Provide centralized storage and distribution of important information
  • Run Continuous Data Protection to copy unattended each version of each file saved by employees, permitting your business to recover data with ease
  • Store and archive video from your surveillance system

Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems Consultants The Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive collaboration and communications system that enables small businesses to connect telecommuters, mobile workers and office workers in disparate locations to improve their options to collaborate with customers and colleagues. In the latest release, the affordable system has enhanced wireless features including the first wireless desktop VoIP handset with Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G IP phone, which enables businesses to grow cost-effectively by deploying handsets in places where conventional telephone lines or network cables are not present or cannot conveniently be added.

Other innovative pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) 1.4 version include:

  • Cisco's 520 Secure Router product to help guard a small business network and give employees safe connectivity to the Internet and important corporate information remotely or locally
  • Cisco's Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to permit stakeholders to simplify the configuration and deployment of solutions created specifically for certain businesses

How Progent's Cisco-certified Professionals Can Assist Your Company to Benefit from Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco-qualified consultants and CCIE accredited network engineers can help you to assess the latest Cisco products to determine their value for your IT system, install Cisco security and communication platforms to enhance the protection and performance of your information network, and provide tech support for Cisco products both in person and remotely to keep your IT network running smoothly. Progent's consultants offer a range of low-cost support services to enhance the dependability, safety, speed, and maintainability of your company's information network:

Quick Online Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Network Engineers
Progent offers easy, immediate, and low-cost assistance from CCIE consultants. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are highly-qualified network gurus who are awarded this top-level certification only after exhaustive examination by Cisco. CCIEs can handle even the most complex problems surrounding network architecture, deployment, troubleshooting, and support. Progent’s CCIE experts interact intimately with Cisco in-house staff in identifying issues with Cisco's IOS platform and developing fixes or obtaining patches to correct problems. Progent your company quick access to a CCIE by phone so that you can receive instant assistance for tough network problems that are impacting worker efficiency but are beyond the expertise of your ordinary IT service providers. Progent's CCIE support professionals can access your environment using advanced remote connectivity technology to provide timely and cost-effective diagnosis and repair of critical infrastructure problems.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can assist your business to configure, manage, and debug Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent can provide expertise for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP products to the newest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist you to integrate your IP phones with Unified CM, originally known as CallManager, or with Unified CM Express (CME) to create a state-of-the-art IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can provide expertise with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP trunking, installing ISR routers with CUBE internetworking support, and designing Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony solutions for high availability. For additional information on Progent's support for Cisco's collaboration solutions, read Cisco Voice over IP and Unified Communications Consulting Services.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), previously named CallManager, is the heart of Cisco's communications and collaboration solution. CUCM and Unified CM Express provide an advanced IP-PBX by integrating tightly with applications that include Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Cisco Unity Connection for voicemail, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for building a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's CCIE-certified Cisco Unified CM experts can help with any aspect of Unified Communications Manager setup and debugging in areas such as integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN support, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE networking support, designing Cisco UCS server failover solutions for high availability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Support
Progent’s certified Cisco IT security consulting professionals provide expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting services including architecture, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and secure access services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home businesses to modular enterprise-class appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer advanced security, performance, and high reliability for IT systems of any size. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed platform, minimizing possible OS-specific security holes.

Network Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's GIAC, CISA and CISM-premier security engineers can provide a variety of budget-friendly security Inventory bundles and network security evaluation service packages designed to give organizations of any size a chance to get an objective look at the effectiveness of their security profile. These packages range from ultra-affordable external network security scan and internal network security scan options for small and midsize businesses up to a high-end security assessment solution for institutions who need comply with security standards demanded by state agencies or by customers. For every security inventory or evaluation bundle, engineers with high-level security accreditations analyze and report on scanned information and make suggestions for effective improvements.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk consultants and Cisco CUBE configuration experts can help organizations of any size to design, integrate, manage, troubleshoot and upgrade Cisco's SIP connectivity technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected SIP trunks. Progent offers cost-effective online or on-premises expertise to help businesses to move efficiently to a modern unified communications network that offers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can assist you to establish connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms such as Skype for Business Server or Lync Server for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Products
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 incorporates a wide range of wireless products and technologies and provides the identical security, scalability, and manageability you expect from a wired environment. Progent can assist you to achieve seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless technology and wireless technology from third-party vendors to give your business the features you require plus the most protected, dependable, and economical wireless networking system available. Progent's CISM and CISSP security specialists can show you how to design protection into your WLAN and your company's processes.

Simplified Administration Solutions for Cisco-powered IT Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management engineers offer help with Cisco's management utilities alongside a range of powerful third-party products to build a complete management automation strategy in order to keep your network operating reliably, conserve limited resources, guard your information, revive quickly from device breakdown or malicious assaults, and allow you to add or reassign valuable components sensibly and affordably as your company evolves.

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