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Cisco Announces Security and Networking Solutions for Small Companies
Cisco announced innovative solutions targeted especially for small company IT networks and engineered to provide high levels of security and collaboration at a budget-friendly price. Solutions introduced by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest version of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System.
The Cisco Spam Blocker is a dedicated antispam and antivirus security device that essentially eradicates email attacks with no set up. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint network-attached storage appliances that provide protection for valuable data and enable workers to share files easily. The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4, a full sharing and communications solution that easily connects offices, employees, and customers anywhere. The latest version incorporates the industry's debut of a wireless small-footprint Internet Protocol (IP) handset with Bluetooth support. To see Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Announces Networking Products for Small Companies.
Cisco Spam Blocker
The Spam and Virus Blocker protects small organizations by offering powerful protection against spam, viruses and phishing as well as other email threats to guard your network and corporate information while at the same time improve productivity. Since the device stops spam and viruses with minimal set up and updates on its own, it eliminates the expense and hassle associated setup and continuing and management. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance increases the throughput of network connections, servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker is an end-to-end defense against email attacks by including hardware, intelligent software, ongoing updates, and product assistance in a single bundle.
Notable benefits of the Spam Blocker are:
- Accuracy: Assists to make sure that email-borne attacks and junk mail are intercepted while business email is delivered.
- Ongoing self-installed patches: Constant interaction with SenderBase services, an online library of email security threats, makes sure that the Spam & Virus Blocker incorporates the latest updates to protect your business email.
- Simple installation and operation: Easy-to-use browser-based installation tools allow you to install the Spam and Virus Blocker in practically any network within 15 minutes, providing instant protection for your business.
- Streamlined management: As soon as your company installs the the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you get spam and malware protection with minimal extra hassle required of your network support staff.
Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems provide the dependable protection and advanced data backup features that your business requires, at a cost small organizations can handle. The NSS3000 accommodates up to 4 TB of data and up to 15 simultaneous clients per enclosure, offering the ideal solution for storing, accessing, and backing up your mission-critical corporate information. Unlike less sophisticated network-attached storage systems, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art backup, cryptography, user authentication, and high availability your business needs.
The Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure supports any certified hard disk. The chassis provides a wealth of features in a desktop-size system engineered specifically for small businesses. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage enclosure also provides your business the flexibility to deploy the system without any connected hard disks, to modify the product at any time, and to chain multiple Cisco NAS chassis with one another, offering a platform that can continually expand with your company.
Your business can use the NSS2000 or NSS3000 Network Storage Systems to:
- Intelligently back up vital data from every desktop and server in your organization
- Provide centralized storage and distribution of important files
- Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to back up automatically each version of every file saved by workers, permitting your business to restore files quickly
- Store and archive video from your company's surveillance cameras
Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and comprehensive sharing and communications system that permits small organizations to connect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and office workers in disparate locations to improve their options to communicate with clients and teammates. In the new release, the aggressively priced system offers enhanced wireless features including the industry's first wireless desktop IP phone with built-in Bluetooth, the SPA525G IP phone, which enables companies to grow easily by installing phones in places where conventional telephone lines or network wiring is missing or cannot conveniently be added.
Additional innovative components of the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 include:
- Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router to help guard a small business network and provide workers safe access to the Internet and key corporate information from inside or outside the office
- The Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to permit partners to simplify the configuration and installation of solutions designed specifically for certain companies
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