New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Cisco unveiled innovative products targeted especially for small business networks and designed to deliver outstanding security and collaboration at a budget-friendly price. Solutions unveiled by Cisco included the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 version of the Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a dedicated antispam and antivirus security product that virtually eradicates email threats as shipped. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint network-attached storage devices that provide security for valuable data and allow workers to exchange information easily. The Cisco SBCS Version 1.4, a full collaboration and communications solution that seamlessly connects sites, workers, and customers however dispersed. Cisco's current release incorporates the industry's debut of a wireless small-footprint IP handset with Bluetooth support. To view Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Announces Networking and Security Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
The Spam Blocker safeguards small businesses by offering powerful defense against spam, viruses and other email threats to secure your network and corporate data while enhance efficiency. Because the appliance stops spam and viruses right out of the box and stays current automatically, it does away with the expense and hassle with initial configuration and ongoing and management. By eliminating spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker increases the performance of network connections, application servers, and computers. The Spam Blocker is an end-to-end defense against email threats by featuring a physical appliance, software, ongoing patches, and product assistance in a unified package.

Key features of the Spam and Virus Blocker include:

• Efficiency: Helps to ensure that email-borne attacks and junk mail are caught while legitimate messages are delivered.
• Ongoing self-installed updates: Non-stop communication with SenderBase services, a network library of email security threats, ensures that your Cisco Spam Blocker installs the most current patches to guard your corporate email.
• Easy installation and use: Easy-to-use browser-based installation wizards permit you to install Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance in almost any network in 15 minutes, delivering immediate security for your business.
• Effortless administration: As soon as you deploys the Cisco's Spam Blocker, you benefit from junk mail and virus filtering with minimal extra hassle required of your network support group.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems offer the dependable protection and advanced backup features that your company requires, at a cost small businesses can handle. The Small Business NSS3000 supports as much as to 4 TB of data and as many as 15 concurrent users on each chassis, provides the ideal solution for holding, sharing, and backing up your vital business data. As distinct from entry-level NAS systems, the Small Business NSS3000 delivers the advanced archiving, cryptography, client validation, and service continuity your business requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis handles any certified hard drive. The product provides a range of features in a desktop footprint engineered for small companies. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage Chassis also gives your business the flexibility to deploy the system without any connected drives, to reconfigure it easily, and to chain multiple chassis with one another, providing a solution that can continually expand with your company.

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

• Intelligently back up important information from each PC and server in your organization
• Offer unified storage and distribution of important files
• Employ Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to back up unattended each revision of each file archived by workers, allowing your company to recover data with ease
• Record and save digital video from your company's video security cameras

Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4 is a simple and complete collaboration and communications solution that permits small businesses to connect telecommuters, mobile workers and office workers in separate locations to improve their ability to collaborate with customers and colleagues. In the latest release, the affordable system offers enhanced wireless capabilities such as the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP phone with built-in Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G VoIP phone, which enables businesses to grow easily by adding phones in places where traditional phone wires or network wiring is missing or cannot easily be added.

Additional new pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System 1.4 version include:

• The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router to help guard a small business network and provide employees safe connectivity to the Internet and key business information remotely or locally
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to enable stakeholders to simplify the configuration and installation of solutions created custom for certain businesses

How Progent's Certified Professionals Can Assist Your Business to Incorporate Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco certified support professionals and Cisco CCIE network engineers can assist you to evaluate new Cisco technologies to understand their usefulness for your environment, integrate Cisco appliances to improve the protection and performance of your information network, and troubleshoot Cisco products both in person and online to keep your network running smoothly. Progent's IT professionals offer a range of low-cost services to enhance the availability, safety, performance, and maintainability of a small business IT system:

Quick Online Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Engineers
Progent is the leading source of easy, quick, and affordable support from CCIE support professionals. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are recognized networking gurus who are awarded this top-level accreditation only after intense examination by Cisco. CCIEs can handle the most complicated problems surrounding network infrastructure planning, implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Progent’s CCIE experts interact closely with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing issues with Cisco's IOS software and devising workarounds or acquiring patches to resolve problems. Progent offers fast access to a CCIE by phone so you are able to get urgent help for tough network troubles that are undermining business efficiency but are outside the expertise of your local network support resources. Progent's CCIE support professionals can link to your network using state-of-the-art remote support tools in order to deliver fast and cost-effective analysis and remediation of urgent network problems.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone consultants can help you to integrate, manage, and debug Cisco IP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy VoIP products to the latest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help you to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally named CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to create a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can deliver support with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving QoS, setting up SIP gateways, deploying ISR routers with CUBE internetworking capability, and creating UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) solutions for high availability. For more details on Progent's support for Cisco's Unified Communications technology, visit Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications Professional Services.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), formerly named CallManager, functions as the center of Cisco's communications and collaboration portfolio. CUCM and Unified CM Express (CME) provide a location-independent IP-PBX by integrating with unified messaging applications like Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for creating an advanced customer contact center. Progent's CCIE-certified Cisco Unified CM consultants can assist with any facet of Unified Communications Manager configuration and debugging in areas that include integrating VoIP phones and video phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN calling, deploying Cisco ISR routers with CUBE support, creating Cisco UCS server clustering systems for high availability, and integration with Exchange Server and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Support
Progent’s certified Cisco network security consulting professionals provide expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services including infrastructure design, configuration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack protection, and secure access services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home businesses to scalable gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of protection, high throughput, and excellent availability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built operating system, minimizing common OS-specific security gaps.

Network Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's CISM and CISSP-certified security engineers can deliver a variety of cost-effective network security Inventory service packages and security assessment service bundles created to give businesses of all sizes an opportunity to get an impartial opinion about the quality of their protection environment. These packages vary from ultra-affordable external network security scan and internal security scan options for small and midsize businesses up to a high-level security assessment solution for enterprises who need comply with security standards demanded by government agencies or by customers. For each security assessment package, consultants with high-level security accreditations evaluate and report on collected data and make recommendations for effective remediation.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk consultants and CUBE configuration consultants can assist organizations of any size to design, deploy, maintain, debug and enhance Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connectivity technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected SIP trunks. Progent can provide affordable online or on-premises expertise to help companies to move efficiently to a productive communications ecosystem that delivers accelerated return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications experts can help you to establish interfaces between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications like Skype for Business Server and Lync Server for access to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Infrastructure
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or certified CCNP to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a wide range of wireless devices and technologies and offers the identical security, scalability, and ease of management you demand from a wired environment. Progent can help you to implement transparent integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless technology from third-party vendors to offer your business the functionality you require plus the most secure, reliable, and cost-effective WLAN system possible. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security specialists can show you how to design security into your WLAN and your company's operations.

Automated Administration Tools for Cisco-based IT Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management engineers can provide help with Cisco's network management technology alongside a selection of powerful third-party applications to build a complete network management strategy in order to keep your environment running reliably, fully utilize limited resources, protect your information, revive quickly from device breakdown or deliberate assaults, and enable you to expand or reassign valuable components sensibly and economically as your company evolves.

To learn more details concerning Progent's consulting services for Cisco networking and security solutions, call 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.