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Cisco introduced innovative solutions targeted especially for small company networks and designed to provide exceptional levels of protection and connectivity at a budget-friendly price. Products introduced by Cisco were Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest release of the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a purpose-built spam, virus, and phishing filter security product that essentially eradicates email attacks with no set up. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint network-attached storage (NAS) devices that offer security for valuable information and allow employees to access shared files effortlessly. Cisco's SBCS Version 1.4, a full sharing and communications system that seamlessly connects offices, workers, and clients anywhere. Cisco's latest release incorporates the first wireless desktop VoIP phone with Bluetooth capabilities. To read Cisco's press release, visit Cisco Announces Networking and Security Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
The Spam and Virus Blocker protects small businesses by offering powerful protection against spam, viruses and phishing and other email threats to guard your system and business data while enhance efficiency. Since the device stops spam right out of the box and stays current on its own, it avoids the cost and time with setup and ongoing and management. By eliminating spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker helps the performance of networks, application servers, and computers. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a comprehensive solution email-born attacks by featuring hardware, software, ongoing updates, and product assistance in a unified package.

Key benefits of Cisco's Spam Blocker include:

• Precision: Helps to make sure that email-borne attacks and junk mail are caught and business email is delivered.
• Continuous self-installed updates: Constant interaction with SenderBase services, a network library of email safety threats, makes sure that the Cisco Spam Blocker incorporates the most current patches to protect your business email.
• Easy installation and use: User-friendly web-based installation wizards permit you to install Cisco's Spam Blocker in practically any environment in 15 minutes, providing instant protection for your business network.
• Streamlined management: As soon as you installs the Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, you get junk mail and malware filtering with minimal additional hassle required from your network support group.

Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems offer the robust protection and advanced data backup capabilities that your company requires, at a price small businesses can handle. The Cisco NSS3000 accommodates as much as to four terabytes of data and as many as 15 simultaneous users per chassis, provides the ideal answer for storing, sharing, and backing up your vital corporate information. Unlike entry-level network-attached storage (NAS) alternatives, the NSS3000 provides the advanced backup, cryptography, user validation, and service continuity your company requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure handles any certified hard disk drive. The product offers a wealth of capabilities in a desktop footprint designed for small organizations. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also offers your business the versatility to configure the product without any connected disks, to modify the product easily, and to chain several chassis with one another, offering a platform that can continually grow with your business.

Your business can use the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or NSS3000 to:

• Intelligently copy vital information from every PC and server on your network
• Provide unified storage and sharing of key information
• Run Continuous Data Protection to copy automatically every version of each file saved by workers, allowing your company to recover information quickly
• Record and archive digital video from your video surveillance system

Cisco Smart Business Communications System
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive sharing and communications solution that permits small organizations to connect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and office workers in separate locations to enhance their ability to communicate with clients and teammates. In the latest release, the affordable solution offers enhanced wireless features such as the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP handset with Bluetooth technology, the Cisco SPA525G VoIP phone, which enables companies to expand easily by deploying handsets in locations where traditional phone lines or network wiring is not present or cannot conveniently be added.

Additional innovative pieces of the Cisco SBCS 1.4 version include:

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router to help protect the company's infrastructure and provide workers safe connectivity to the Internet and important business information wherever they are
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to permit partners to simplify the configuration and deployment of solutions designed custom for certain businesses

How Progent's Cisco-certified Engineers Can Assist Your Business to Benefit from Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco certified support professionals and Cisco CCIE networking experts can help your company to assess the latest Cisco products to understand their usefulness for your IT system, configure Cisco solutions to enhance the security and performance of your information network, and troubleshoot Cisco products both in person and online to keep your network operating dependably. Progent's consultants can provide a variety of cost-effective technical services to enhance the reliability, protection, efficiency, and maintainability of your IT network:

Quick Access to Cisco CCIE Engineers
Progent is the premier provider of convenient, immediate, and affordable support from Cisco CCIE support professionals. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are highly-qualified networking gurus who are awarded this prestigious certification only after exhaustive examination by Cisco. CCIEs can tackle the most challenging problems encountered with network infrastructure architecture, integration, troubleshooting, and administration. Progent's CCIE consultants cooperate closely with Cisco engineers in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS software and developing fixes or acquiring patches to correct anomalies. Progent gives you fast access to a CCIE by phone so you are able to get urgent help for tough network problems that are undermining business efficiency but are beyond the scope of your local IT support resources. Progent's CCIE support engineers can link to your environment via state-of-the-art remote connectivity technology in order to provide fast and affordable analysis and remediation of critical network difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can assist you to integrate, maintain, and debug Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued Voice over IP products to the latest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, previously named CallManager, or with Unified CM Express to build a modern IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent can provide expertise with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP trunking, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE internetworking capability, and creating UCS server clustering and Cisco SRST solutions for survivability. For additional details on Progent's engineering help for Cisco's Unified Communications technology, refer to Cisco VoIP and Unified Communications Consulting Help.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly known as CallManager, functions as the core of Cisco's collaboration solution. Unified Communications Manager and Unified CM Express (CME) offer an advanced IP-PBX solution by integrating with unified messaging apps like Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Express for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for building a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM consultants can assist with any facet of CUCM setup and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop video phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN calling, installing ISR routers with CUBE support, designing Cisco UCS server clustering solutions for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Support
Progent's certified Cisco IT security consultants provide expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall engineering services covering architecture, integration, 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, sophisticated attack defense, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-grade appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer advanced 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, eliminating common OS-specific security holes.

Network Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's CISM and CISSP-premier security consultants can deliver a range of budget-friendly security Inventory bundles and security assessment bundles designed to offer businesses of all sizes an opportunity to receive a professional opinion about the strength of their security profile. The packages vary from low-cost external security scan and internal network security scan packages for small and midsize companies up to a high-level network security assessment package for institutions who have to comply with security standards required by government regulators or by customers. For each security inventory or evaluation bundle, engineers with high-level security accreditations evaluate and summarize collected information and provide recommendations for efficient improvements.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure consultants and Cisco CUBE configuration consultants can assist you to plan, integrate, maintain, troubleshoot 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 companies to move efficiently to a modern communications ecosystem that offers fast return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications experts can help you to configure connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms such as Skype for Business and Lync Server for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Solutions
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 array of wireless appliances and technologies and offers the same protection, expandability, and ease of management you demand 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 business the functionality you require as well as the most secure, dependable, and economical wireless networking system available. Progent's CISM and CISSP security specialists can advise you about how to design security into your WLAN and your company's operations.

Simplified Management Tools for Cisco-based IT Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Certified network consultants offer assistance with Cisco's management tools alongside a selection of powerful third-party products to create a complete network management solution to keep your network running smoothly, conserve expensive resources, protect your information, revive rapidly from device breakdown or malicious attacks, and allow you to add or reassign network resources sensibly and economically as your company evolves.

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