New IT Technology and Progent IT Solutions

Cisco unveiled innovative products targeted especially for small company networks and engineered to provide exceptional levels of security and connectivity for a budget-friendly cost. Solutions unveiled by Cisco were Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest version of the SBCS.

The Cisco Spam Blocker appliance is a purpose-built email security product that essentially eradicates email-based attacks right out of the box. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable desktop network-attached storage appliances that provide security for important data and enable workers to exchange files easily. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4, a complete sharing and communications system that seamlessly interconnects offices, employees, and clients anywhere. The current version incorporates the industry's first wireless desktop Internet Protocol (IP) handset with Bluetooth wireless support. To view Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Unveils Connectivity and Collaboration Solutions for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
The Spam and Virus Blocker protects small companies by offering powerful defense against spam, viruses and worms as well as other email threats to secure your system and corporate information and simultaneously enhance efficiency. Because the device blocks spam and viruses with minimal set up and stays current automatically, it does away with the cost and hassle with setup and continuing and administration. By filtering out spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker helps the performance of network connections, application servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker represents an end-to-end solution email-born attacks by featuring a physical appliance, intelligent software, ongoing updates, and technical assistance in a single bundle.

Key features of the Spam Blocker are:

• Accuracy: Assists to ensure that email threats and spam are caught and legitimate messages are allowed through.
• Continuous automatic patches: Constant communication with SenderBase security, a network library of email safety risks, makes sure that the Cisco Spam Blocker incorporates the most current updates to guard your corporate email.
• Simple setup and operation: Easy-to-use browser-based setup wizards allow you to configure Cisco's Spam Blocker in nearly any environment within 15 minutes, delivering immediate security for your network.
• Effortless administration: From the moment you deploys the the Spam Blocker, you benefit from junk mail and virus protection with minimal extra hassle demanded from your network support staff.

Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000
The NSS2000 and 3000 provide the robust protection and advanced data backup features that your company requires, at a cost small businesses can handle. The Cisco NSS3000 accommodates as much as to 4 terabytes of data and up to 15 simultaneous users per enclosure, offering the optimal solution for holding, accessing, and backing up your vital business information. As distinct from entry-level NAS systems, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art backup, encryption, user validation, and high availability your organization requires.

The NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis supports any approved hard drive. The product provides a wealth of features in a desktop-size form factor designed specifically for small businesses. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage Chassis also offers your company the flexibility to deploy the product without any connected disks, to modify the product at any time, and to link several chassis with one another, offering a platform that can smoothly expand with your company.

You can use the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or 3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Automatically copy vital data from every PC and application server on your network
• Offer unified storage and sharing of key files
• Employ Continuous Data Protection to back up unattended each revision of each file archived by workers, permitting your company to recover information easily
• Record and archive video from your company's video surveillance system

Cisco Smart Business Communications System
The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive sharing and communications solution that allows small organizations to connect telecommuters, on-the-road workers and employees in separate locations to enhance their options to communicate with customers and colleagues. In the new release, the aggressively priced solution has improved wireless features such as the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP handset with built-in Bluetooth technology, the SPA525G wireless IP device, which allows companies to grow easily by installing phones in places where traditional phone wires or network wiring is missing or cannot easily be run.

Other new components of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) 1.4 version include:

• The Cisco 520 Secure Router product to help guard a small business network and provide employees safe access to the Internet and key business data wherever they are
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to allow stakeholders to streamline the setup and deployment of solutions designed specifically for individual businesses

How Progent's Certified Engineers Can Assist Your Company to Get the Most Out of Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco support professionals and CCIE accredited network engineers can help you to assess new Cisco technologies to understand their usefulness for your IT system, install Cisco security and communication platforms to enhance the security and efficiency of your network, and maintain Cisco products both onsite and online to keep your network operating dependably. Progent's IT professionals offer a range of low-cost services to enhance the availability, safety, performance, and manageability of your company's IT network:

Immediate Online Access to Cisco CCIE Engineers
Progent delivers convenient, quick, and economical help from Cisco CCIE consultants. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are elite network gurus who earn this top-level certification only as a result of comprehensive examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to tackle the most sophisticated problems surrounding network planning, implementation, troubleshooting, and management. Progent's CCIE experts work closely with Cisco engineers in analyzing issues with Cisco's IOS platform and developing fixes or obtaining software updates to correct anomalies. Progent can provide fast contact with a CCIE by phone so you can get urgent assistance for tough network troubles that are undermining business productivity but are outside the scope of your local IT service providers. Progent's CCIE support engineers can link to your environment via state-of-the-art remote support technology in order to deliver timely and affordable diagnosis and repair of critical network problems.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco VoIP phone and video IP phone consultants can help your business to configure, manage, and debug Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent can provide support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices to the newest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also help your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally named CallManager, or with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to build a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can provide support with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP trunking, installing ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking capability, and creating Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco SRST systems for high availability. For additional details on Progent's expertise for Cisco's IP voice and video solutions, go to Cisco VoIP and Unified Communications Consulting Services.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), previously branded CallManager, is the center of Cisco's collaboration solution. CUCM and Unified CM Express (CME) offer a borderless IP-PBX by integrating closely with apps such as Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for creating a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM consultants can help with any aspect of Unified Communications Manager support and troubleshooting in areas that include integrating Cisco VoIP phones and desktop video IP phones, designing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN support, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE networking support, creating Cisco UCS server failover systems for high availability, and integration with Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting Expertise
Progent's experienced Cisco network security consulting professionals provide expert PIX and ASA Firewall engineering services including infrastructure design, configuration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and secure access services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable gigabit products, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide advanced security, performance, and excellent availability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built operating system, minimizing common OS-specific security holes.

Network Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's CISM and CISSP-premier security engineers can provide a range of cost-effective security Inventory bundles and security evaluation service bundles created to offer organizations of all sizes an opportunity to receive an objective look at the effectiveness of their security environment. These packages range from low-cost external network security scan and internal security scan options for small and midsize companies up to a high-level network security evaluation solution for enterprises who have to meet security standards demanded by state regulators or by customers. For every security assessment package, consultants with top security credentials evaluate and report on scanned information and provide recommendations for effective improvements.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Integration Consulting
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP trunk experts and CUBE integration consultants can help organizations of any size to plan, integrate, manage, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP connectivity solutions and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent can provide cost-effective online or on-premises support to assist companies to migrate smoothly to a modern unified communications ecosystem that offers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration consultants can assist you to configure connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications like Skype for Business and Lync Server for connectivity to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can provide a certified CCIE or certified CCNP to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that incorporates a broad range of wireless products and technologies and provides the same security, scalability, and ease of management you expect from a wired environment. Progent can help you to achieve transparent integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless technology from third-party vendors to offer your business the functionality you need as well as the most protected, dependable, and cost-effective wireless networking solution possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can advise you about how to design protection into your WLAN and your business operations.

Automated Management Solutions for Cisco-based IT Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management consultants offer help with Cisco's network management technology alongside a range of powerful third-party applications to build a comprehensive management automation solution to keep your network operating smoothly, fully utilize expensive resources, guard your data, revive quickly from hardware breakdown or deliberate assaults, and allow you to add or repurpose network components intelligently and economically as your business grows.

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