Cisco Premier Certified Support Services Cisco unveiled new products targeted specifically for small company IT networks and engineered to deliver a high degree of protection and collaboration at a budget-friendly price. Solutions unveiled by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 version of the SBCS.

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a purpose-built spam, virus, and phishing filter security product that essentially eradicates email-based threats right out of the box. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint network-attached storage appliances that provide security for valuable data and enable workers to share information effortlessly. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4, a full collaboration and communications system that easily connects offices, workers, and clients anywhere. Cisco's current release features the first wireless desktop Internet Protocol (IP) handset with Bluetooth support. To see Cisco's press release, visit Cisco Unveils Networking Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker
Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Help The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance safeguards small companies by providing extensive defense against spam, viruses and other email-borne threats to secure your system and corporate data while at the same time enhance productivity. Because the appliance blocks spam and viruses with minimal set up and stays current on its own, it eliminates the cost and time associated setup and continuing and administration. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker helps the performance of networks, application servers, and computers. The Spam and Virus Blocker is an end-to-end defense against email-born attacks by featuring a physical appliance, intelligent software, ongoing patches, and product assistance in a single bundle.

Key benefits of Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance include:

  • Efficiency: Assists to ensure that email-borne threats and junk mail are intercepted while business email is accepted.
  • Ongoing automatic updates: Constant communication with SenderBase services, an online library of email safety risks, ensures that the Cisco Spam Blocker installs the latest patches to protect your corporate email.
  • Easy installation and operation: Easy-to-use browser-based setup wizards permit you to install Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance in almost any environment within 15 minutes, delivering immediate protection for your business.
  • Streamlined administration: From the moment you installs the Cisco's Spam Blocker, you benefit from junk mail and malware filtering with minimal additional hassle required of your IT group.

Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000
NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems Consultants The Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 offer the dependable protection and advanced data backup capabilities that your business requires, at a cost small organizations can afford. The Cisco NSS3000 accommodates up to 4 terabytes of data and as many as 15 concurrent clients on each chassis, provides the optimal solution for storing, accessing, and archiving your mission-critical business information. Unlike less sophisticated network-attached storage (NAS) systems, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art archiving, cryptography, client validation, and fault tolerance your organization requires.

The Cisco NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage enclosure handles any certified hard disk. The chassis provides a wealth of features in a desktop-size footprint designed specifically for small companies. The Small Business NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also offers you the flexibility to deploy the system without any connected disks, to modify the product easily, and to chain several Cisco NAS chassis with one another, offering a solution that can smoothly grow with your company.

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

  • Intelligently copy important data from each workstation and application server in your company
  • Offer unified preservation and sharing of key information
  • Run Continuous Data Protection to copy automatically each version of each file archived by employees, allowing your business to restore information quickly
  • Record and save digital video from your company's video surveillance cameras

Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Help The Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive sharing and communications solution that allows small companies to interconnect telecommuters, mobile workers and employees in separate locations to enhance their options to interact with clients and colleagues. In Release 1.4, the affordable solution offers improved wireless features such as the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP handset with Bluetooth technology, the SPA525G IP phone, which enables companies to expand cost-effectively by deploying handsets in places where conventional telephone wires or Ethernet wiring is missing or cannot easily be run.

Other innovative components of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System 1.4 version include:

  • Cisco's 520 Secure Router product to help guard a small business infrastructure and give workers safe connectivity to the Internet and key corporate information wherever they are
  • Cisco's Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to allow partners to simplify the setup and deployment of solutions created specifically for certain businesses

How Progent's Certified Experts Can Help Your Business to Get the Most Out of Cisco Technology
Progent's Cisco certified consultants and Cisco CCIE network engineers can help you to evaluate new Cisco products to determine their appropriateness for your environment, integrate Cisco appliances to improve the protection and performance of your network, and troubleshoot Cisco devices both onsite and remotely to keep your IT network operating dependably. Progent's IT professionals can provide a variety of low-cost technical services to improve the dependability, protection, speed, and maintainability of a small business information network:

Immediate Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Engineers
Progent offers convenient, quick, and affordable help from registered CCIE support professionals. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are recognized networking gurus who are awarded this prestigious accreditation only through strenuous examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to handle the most complicated problems surrounding IT network architecture, integration, repair, and support. Progent’s CCIE consultants work intimately with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS platform and developing fixes or acquiring software updates to resolve problems. Progent gives you immediate access to a CCIE by telephone so that you can get instant assistance for complex network problems that are affecting worker efficiency but are outside the scope of your local IT service resources. Progent's CCIE support experts can access your network via advanced remote support technology to provide fast and affordable diagnosis and remediation of urgent infrastructure problems.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can assist your business to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent can provide support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued VoIP products to the latest media phones. Progent's consultants can also help you to integrate your IP phones with Unified CM, formerly branded CallManager, or with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to build a an advanced IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can deliver expertise with all aspects of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving QoS, configuring SIP gateways, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE VoIP networking capability, and designing Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) solutions for survivability. For additional information on Progent's technical support for Cisco's collaboration solutions, go to Cisco Voice over IP and Unified Communications Engineering Services.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), originally known as CallManager, functions as the foundation of Cisco's collaboration solution. Unified CM and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) offer an advanced IP-PBX by integrating closely with unified messaging apps like Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Express for voicemail, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for creating an advanced customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified Cisco Unified CM experts can assist with any facet of Unified Communications Manager setup and debugging in areas such as integrating VoIP phones and desktop video phones, reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN support, deploying ISR routers with CUBE networking support, designing UCS server clustering systems for survivability, and integration with Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Support
Progent’s certified Cisco IT security consultants offer high-level PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services including architecture, 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, mutlivector attack protection, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-class appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer advanced security, performance, and high availability for network environments of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed platform, eliminating common OS-specific security gaps.

Network Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISA, CISM and CISSP-premier security consultants can deliver a variety of cost-effective security Inventory packages and network security evaluation packages created to offer businesses of all sizes an opportunity to get an impartial look at the strength of their security environment. These packages range from ultra-affordable external network security scan and internal security scan packages for small companies up to a high-end security assessment solution for institutions who need comply with security levels required by state regulators or by customers. For each security assessment bundle, consultants with high-level security accreditations analyze and report on collected data and make suggestions for effective improvements.

Cisco SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP Trunks and CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP infrastructure consultants and Cisco CUBE integration experts can assist organizations of any size to plan, deploy, manage, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE-based SIP trunks. Progent can provide affordable remote or on-premises expertise to help you to move smoothly to a modern communications network that delivers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications consultants can assist you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's rich media platforms like Skype for Business Server and Lync Server for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a broad array of wireless products and technologies and offers the identical protection, expandability, and manageability you expect from a wired network. Progent can help you to implement seamless integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless products from other vendors to offer your company the functionality you require plus the most protected, dependable, and cost-effective wireless networking system available. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can advise you about how to build protection into your wireless network and your company's operations.

Simplified Administration Solutions for Cisco-powered Small Business Networks
Progent's Cisco-Certified network consultants can provide assistance with Cisco's network management technology along with a variety of specialized third-party products to create a complete network management solution in order to keep your network running reliably, fully utilize limited resources, protect your data, recover quickly from device failure or malicious attacks, and enable you to expand or repurpose network components intelligently and affordably as your company evolves.

To learn additional information concerning Progent's consulting services for Cisco networking and communications technology, call 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.