New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

Cisco introduced innovative products intended specifically for small company networks and engineered to deliver exceptional security and connectivity at a budget-friendly price. Products unveiled by Cisco were Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest version of the Cisco SBCS.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a dedicated antispam and antivirus security device that essentially eradicates email-based attacks as shipped. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint network-attached storage (NAS) appliances that offer protection for valuable data and enable workers to access shared files effortlessly. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications solution that easily connects offices, workers, and customers however dispersed. The latest version features the debut of a wireless small-footprint Internet Protocol (IP) handset with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To see Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Unveils Connectivity and Collaboration Products for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker
The Spam and Virus Blocker protects small businesses by offering powerful defense against junk mail, viruses and other email-borne threats to guard your network and corporate data while at the same time enhance productivity. Because the device stops spam right out of the box and updates on its own, it eliminates the expense and hassle required for initial configuration and ongoing and administration. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance helps the throughput of networks, application servers, and computers. The Spam Blocker appliance is an end-to-end defense against email attacks by featuring hardware, intelligent software, ongoing patches, and product support in a single package.

Notable benefits of Cisco's Spam Blocker include:

• Accuracy: Assists to ensure that email attacks and junk mail are caught and legitimate email is delivered.
• Ongoing automatic patches: Non-stop communication with SenderBase security, an online library of email safety risks, makes sure that your Cisco Spam Blocker installs the latest updates to protect your business email.
• Simple setup and use: User-friendly web-based setup tools permit you to configure Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance in nearly any network within minutes, providing immediate security for your network.
• Effortless administration: From the moment your company deploys the the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you get junk mail and virus protection with minimal additional hassle demanded of your IT group.

NSS2000 and NSS3000
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 offer the robust protection and advanced backup features that your business requires, at a price small businesses can handle. The Cisco NSS3000 supports up to 4 TB of data and up to 15 concurrent clients per enclosure, provides the ideal solution for holding, accessing, and backing up your mission-critical corporate data. Unlike ordinary network-attached storage systems, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 provides the advanced backup, cryptography, client authentication, and fault tolerance your organization needs.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure handles any certified hard drive. The chassis offers a wealth of features in a desktop system engineered specifically for small businesses. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also provides you the flexibility to deploy the system without any attached disk drives, to reconfigure the product at any time, and to chain multiple NAS chassis with one another, offering a platform that can smoothly expand with your business.

You can utilize the Cisco NSS2000 or NSS3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Intelligently back up vital information from every desktop and application server on your network
• Offer centralized preservation and distribution of important files
• Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy automatically every revision of each file archived by workers, allowing your business to restore data easily
• Store and archive video from your surveillance system

Cisco SBCS
The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive collaboration and communications solution that enables small companies to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and office workers in separate locations to improve their ability to collaborate with clients and colleagues. In the latest release, the affordable solution offers improved wireless support such as the first wireless desktop IP phone with built-in Bluetooth technology, the Cisco SPA525G VoIP device, which allows businesses to expand cost-effectively by adding phones in places where conventional phone wires or network cables are missing or cannot conveniently be run.

Other new components of the Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 are:

• Cisco's 520 Secure Router product to help guard the company's network and give employees safe connectivity to the Internet and important business data from either side of the firewall
• The Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to enable stakeholders to streamline the configuration and installation of solutions designed specifically for certain companies

How Progent's Consulting Professionals Can Help You to Get the Most Out of Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco certified support professionals and CCIE accredited network engineers can help your company to evaluate new Cisco products to determine their usefulness for your IT system, configure Cisco appliances to improve the protection and performance of your information network, and troubleshoot Cisco devices both onsite and online to keep your network running smoothly. Progent's consulting experts can provide a range of low-cost technical services to enhance the dependability, safety, performance, and manageability of your information network:

Immediate Access to Cisco CCIE Certified Network Engineers
Progent offers easy, immediate, and affordable access to registered CCIE support professionals. CCIEs are highly-qualified networking gurus who are awarded this top-level certification only as a result of exhaustive testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to resolve even the most challenging problems encountered with network architecture, configuration, repair, and administration. Progent’s CCIE experts work intimately with Cisco in-house staff in identifying problems with Cisco's IOS platform and finding fixes or acquiring software updates to resolve problems. Progent gives you quick contact with a CCIE by telephone so that you are able to get urgent help for tough network problems that are undermining worker productivity but are beyond the expertise of your ordinary IT support resources. Progent's CCIE support engineers can access your environment via state-of-the-art off-site support technology in order to deliver fast and affordable analysis and remediation of critical network difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified IP phone and video IP phone experts can assist your business to integrate, maintain, and debug Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices to the newest media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, previously known as 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's consultants can provide expertise with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP trunking, deploying ISR routers with CUBE internetworking support, and designing Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony systems for high availability. For more details about Progent's offerings for Cisco's collaboration technology, refer to Cisco VoIP and Unified Communications Engineering Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, previously known as CallManager, functions as the heart of Cisco's collaboration solution. Cisco Unified CM and Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) offer a borderless IP-PBX by integrating with apps that include Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Express for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for creating a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's CCIE-certified CUCM experts can help with any aspect of CUCM support 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 networking support, creating Cisco UCS server clustering solutions for survivability, and integration with Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent’s certified Cisco network security consultants offer high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting services including infrastructure design, integration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack protection, and safe access services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home businesses to modular enterprise-class appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer advanced security, performance, and high availability for IT systems of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed operating system, minimizing possible OS-specific security holes.

Network Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISM and CISSP-premier security consultants can provide a range of cost-effective network security Inventory service bundles and network security evaluation packages created to give businesses of any size an opportunity to receive an impartial look at the quality of their security profile. The packages range from ultra-affordable external network security scan and internal network security scan options for small and midsize businesses up to a high-level network security evaluation solution for corporations who have to comply with security standards demanded by government regulators or by vendors. For each security inventory or evaluation package, consultants with high-level security accreditations analyze and report on scanned information and provide recommendations for efficient remediation.

Cisco SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure experts and Cisco CUBE integration experts can help you to plan, integrate, manage, troubleshoot and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connectivity solutions and Cisco's CUBE-connected SIP trunks. Progent can provide affordable remote or onsite expertise to assist businesses to move efficiently to a productive unified communications environment that offers fast return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can assist you to configure interfaces between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms like Skype for Business Server or Lync Server for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Products
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that integrates a wide range of wireless products and technologies and provides the identical protection, scalability, and ease of management you expect from your wired network. Progent can assist you to achieve transparent interoperability between Cisco wireless products and wireless products from third-party suppliers to offer your company the features you require plus the most secure, dependable, and cost-effective wireless networking system available. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security professionals can show you how to build protection into your WLAN and your company's operations.

Simplified Management Tools for Cisco-powered Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management engineers can provide help with Cisco's network management technology along with a selection of powerful third-party applications to create a comprehensive network management solution to keep your environment running reliably, conserve limited resources, guard your information, recover quickly from device breakdown or deliberate assaults, and allow you to add or repurpose network resources intelligently and affordably as your company evolves.

For more information concerning Progent's support services for Cisco connectivity and security technology, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.