New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Cisco announced innovative solutions intended specifically for small company IT networks and engineered to provide high levels of protection and collaboration for an affordable price. Products announced by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest release of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a purpose-built spam, virus, and phishing filter security device that virtually eliminates email-based attacks as shipped. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint network-attached storage devices that provide security for important information and enable employees to share files effortlessly. The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications system that easily interconnects offices, employees, and customers anywhere. The latest version incorporates the debut of a cordless small-footprint Internet Protocol (IP) phone with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To read Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Introduces Networking Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
The Spam and Virus Blocker safeguards small organizations by offering powerful defense against junk mail, viruses as well as other email attacks to guard your network and corporate information while at the same time enhance productivity. Since the device blocks spam and viruses with minimal set up and updates on its own, it does away with the expense and time with initial configuration and continuing and management. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance helps the throughput of network connections, application servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker is an end-to-end defense against email-born attacks by featuring hardware, software, ongoing patches, and product assistance in a unified package.

Key features of Cisco's Spam Blocker are:

• Efficiency: Assists to make sure that email attacks and spam are intercepted while legitimate messages are delivered.
• Ongoing automatic patches: Constant interaction with SenderBase security, a network library of email security threats, ensures that your Cisco Spam Blocker appliance incorporates the latest updates to safequard your business email.
• Simple installation and operation: Easy-to-use browser-based installation wizards allow you to configure Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in practically any environment in minutes, providing immediate security for your business.
• Effortless administration: From the moment you installs the the Spam Blocker appliance, you get spam and malware filtering with no extra effort demanded from your network support staff.

Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems offer the robust protection and advanced backup features that your business requires, at a price small organizations can afford. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 supports as much as to 4 terabytes of data and as many as 15 concurrent users on each chassis, provides the ideal solution for holding, sharing, and archiving your mission-critical business information. Unlike less advanced network-attached storage (NAS) systems, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art archiving, encryption, client validation, and service continuity your organization requires.

The Cisco NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage Chassis handles any certified disk. The product provides a wealth of features in a desktop form factor designed specifically for small companies. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also gives you the versatility to configure the system without any attached hard drives, to reconfigure it at any time, and to link multiple NAS chassis together, offering a platform that can continually grow with your company.

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

• Intelligently back up vital data from each workstation and server in your company
• Provide unified storage and sharing of key information
• Employ Continuous Data Protection to copy unattended each version of each file archived by workers, allowing you to recover information quickly
• Record and archive digital video from your company's surveillance cameras

Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive collaboration and communications system that permits small businesses to interconnect telecommuters, on-the-road workers and office workers in separate locations to improve their options to interact with customers and colleagues. In the latest release, the aggressively priced solution has enhanced wireless support such as the first wireless desktop VoIP phone with built-in Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G IP device, which allows businesses to grow easily by adding phones in locations where conventional phone wires or Ethernet cables are missing or cannot easily be added.

Other innovative components of the Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 include:

• The Cisco 520 Secure Router product to help protect a small business network and provide employees secure connectivity to the Internet and important business data any time, anywhere
• The Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to enable stakeholders to streamline the setup and installation of solutions created custom for individual businesses

How Progent's Certified Engineers Can Help Your Company to Benefit from Cisco Technology
Progent's Cisco certified support professionals and Cisco CCIE engineers can assist your company to evaluate new Cisco technologies to understand their usefulness for your environment, install Cisco appliances to enhance the protection and performance of your network, and troubleshoot Cisco devices both in person and remotely to keep your network operating dependably. Progent's consulting experts offer a range of affordable technical services to enhance the availability, security, efficiency, and maintainability of a small business IT system:

Immediate Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Network Engineers
Progent can provide convenient, quick, and economical help from CCIE engineers. CCIEs are elite networking gurus who are awarded this top-level classification only after strenuous examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to tackle even the most complex problems surrounding network architecture, integration, troubleshooting, and management. Progent's CCIE professionals work closely with Cisco engineers in identifying issues with Cisco's IOS software and finding workarounds or obtaining patches to resolve anomalies. Progent offers immediate contact with a CCIE by phone so you can receive instant assistance for complex network problems that are affecting business productivity but are outside the scope of your local IT service providers. Progent's CCIE consulting professionals can link to your environment using advanced remote connectivity tools in order to provide fast and affordable diagnosis and repair of critical network difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified IP phone and video IP phone consultants can assist you to integrate, manage, and debug Cisco IP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued Voice over IP products to the newest media phones. Progent's consultants can also help your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, originally named CallManager, or with Unified CM Express to build a an advanced IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can deliver support with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP gateways, deploying Cisco ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking capability, and designing Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) solutions for high availability. For more information about Progent's support for Cisco's IP voice and video technology, see Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Professional Help.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM), previously known as CallManager, functions as the core of Cisco's collaboration platform. Unified Communications Manager and Unified CM Express (CME) provide an advanced IP-PBX solution by integrating with applications that include Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for creating an advanced customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM experts can assist with any facet of CUCM configuration and troubleshooting in areas that include integrating Cisco VoIP phones and video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN calling, deploying ISR routers with CUBE networking support, designing UCS server clustering solutions for survivability, and integration with Exchange Server and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent's experienced Cisco IT security consultants provide high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting services including infrastructure design, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of security, high throughput, and high availability for network environments of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built operating system, eliminating possible OS-specific security holes.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's CISA, CISM and CISSP-certified security consultants can deliver a range of budget-friendly security Inventory service packages and security assessment packages created to give organizations of all sizes an opportunity to receive an impartial opinion about the strength of their protection environment. The packages vary from low-cost external network security scan and internal network security scan options for small and midsize businesses up to a high-end security evaluation package for corporations who need comply with security levels required by government agencies or by vendors. For each security assessment bundle, consultants with high-level security credentials analyze and summarize collected information and make suggestions for effective improvements.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk experts and CUBE integration experts can assist your business to plan, deploy, manage, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected SIP trunks. Progent can provide cost-effective online or on-premises support to assist you to migrate smoothly to a modern communications ecosystem that offers accelerated ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can help you to configure connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media platforms like Skype for Business or Lync for access to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can provide a certified CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a wide array of wireless products and technologies and provides the same protection, expandability, and manageability you demand from a wired network. Progent can assist you to implement seamless integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless devices and software from third-party suppliers to give your business the features you require as well as the most protected, reliable, and economical wireless networking solution available. Progent's CISM and CISSP security consultants can advise you about how to build security into your wireless network and into your company's processes.

Automated Administration Tools for Cisco-based IT Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network consultants offer assistance with Cisco's management technology along with a selection of specialized third-party applications to build a comprehensive network management solution to keep your network running reliably, conserve expensive resources, guard your information, revive rapidly from device failure or deliberate assaults, and allow you to expand or reassign network resources sensibly and economically as your company evolves.

For additional details about Progent's consulting support for Cisco connectivity and communications products, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.