New IT Technology and Progent IT Solutions

Cisco announced innovative solutions intended specifically for small business networks and designed to deliver exceptional protection and collaboration for a budget-friendly cost. Solutions introduced by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 version of Cisco's SBCS.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a dedicated antispam and antivirus security product that virtually eradicates email attacks with no set up. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint network-attached storage appliances that offer security for valuable information and enable employees to access shared files effortlessly. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4, a full collaboration and communications system that seamlessly interconnects sites, workers, and customers however dispersed. The latest release incorporates the first wireless small-footprint IP phone with Bluetooth wireless support. To see Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Introduces Security and Collaboration Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam Blocker
The Spam Blocker safeguards small companies by offering extensive defense against junk mail, viruses and phishing and other email-borne attacks to guard your network and business data while at the same time enhance productivity. Because the appliance blocks spam and viruses right out of the box and updates on its own, it eliminates the expense and hassle associated setup and ongoing and management. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker helps the throughput of networks, servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker is a comprehensive solution email attacks by featuring hardware, intelligent software, continuous patches, and product assistance in a single package.

Key features of the Spam Blocker appliance are:

• Efficiency: Assists to make sure that email attacks and spam are caught and legitimate email is delivered.
• Continuous self-installed updates: Non-stop communication with SenderBase services, an online library of email safety threats, ensures that your Spam & Virus Blocker incorporates the most current patches to guard your corporate email.
• Easy installation and operation: User-friendly web-based installation tools allow you to configure the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in nearly any network in minutes, delivering instant security for your business network.
• Effortless administration: From the moment you deploys the the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you benefit from junk mail and virus protection with no extra hassle demanded from your IT group.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000
The Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 provide the robust security and advanced backup features that your business requires, at a price small companies can afford. The NSS3000 accommodates up to 4 TB of data and as many as 15 simultaneous users per enclosure, provides the optimal solution for storing, sharing, and backing up your vital corporate information. Unlike less advanced network-attached storage alternatives, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 delivers the advanced archiving, encryption, client validation, and high uptime your business needs.

The Cisco NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage Chassis supports any approved hard disk. The product offers a wealth of features in a desktop-size footprint engineered for small businesses. The NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also offers you the flexibility to deploy the product without any attached hard drives, to modify the product easily, and to chain multiple Cisco NAS chassis with one another, offering a solution that can smoothly expand with your company.

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

• Automatically copy important information from each desktop and server in your business
• Provide centralized preservation and distribution of important files
• Employ Continuous Data Protection to back up automatically each version of every file saved by employees, permitting your company to recover information quickly
• Store and save video from your company's surveillance cameras

Smart Business Communications System
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive sharing and communications solution that allows small organizations to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and office workers in separate sites to enhance their options to communicate with clients and teammates. In the latest release, the affordable solution offers improved wireless capabilities including the industry's first wireless desktop IP phone with Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G VoIP phone, which allows businesses to grow easily by deploying phones in locations where conventional telephone wires or network cables are not present or cannot conveniently be added.

Additional new components of the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) 1.4 version are:

• The Cisco 520 Secure Router to help protect a small business network and provide employees safe connectivity to the Internet and important corporate data wherever they are
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to enable stakeholders to streamline the setup and installation of solutions designed specifically for certain companies

How Progent's Consulting Experts Can Assist You to Incorporate Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco consultants and Cisco CCIE networking experts can help your company to assess new Cisco products to determine their business value for your environment, set up Cisco appliances to improve the security and performance of your network, and troubleshoot Cisco devices both onsite and online to keep your network running smoothly. Progent's consultants can provide a range of low-cost technical services to enhance the availability, safety, performance, and manageability of your IT system:

Immediate Access to Cisco CCIE Network Engineers
Progent delivers convenient, immediate, and affordable assistance from registered CCIE engineers. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are elite networking experts who earn this prestigious classification only through strenuous examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to handle even the most complicated issues associated with IT network architecture, setup, troubleshooting, and administration. Progent’s CCIE professionals cooperate intimately with Cisco engineers in identifying problems with Cisco's IOS platform and finding workarounds or obtaining patches to correct problems. Progent your company immediate contact with a CCIE by telephone so that you are able to receive emergency assistance for tough network troubles that are affecting worker productivity but are beyond the scope of your local IT support providers. Progent's CCIE support professionals can access your environment using advanced off-site connectivity technology in order to provide fast and cost-effective diagnosis and remediation of urgent network difficulties.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone consultants can help you to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Cisco IP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices to the latest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally named CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express to build a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can deliver support with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP gateways, deploying ISR routers with CUBE internetworking support, and designing Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco SRST solutions for survivability. For additional details about Progent's technical support for Cisco's IP voice and video solutions, refer to Cisco VoIP and Unified Communications Professional Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), formerly branded CallManager, functions as the heart of Cisco's collaboration solution. Cisco Unified CM and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express offer a borderless IP-PBX by integrating closely with apps like Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco 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 solution. Progent's CCIE-certified CUCM consultants can assist with any facet of CUCM support and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating VoIP phones and desktop video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN calling, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, creating Cisco UCS server clustering systems for survivability, and integration with Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting Expertise
Progent’s certified Cisco network security consultants offer expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services covering infrastructure design, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack protection, and secure access services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-level products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of protection, performance, and excellent reliability for network environments of all sizes. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed operating system, minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps.

Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISA, CISM and CISSP-certified security engineers can deliver a variety of budget-friendly security Inventory service bundles and security evaluation service packages designed to offer organizations of any size a chance to get a professional look at the effectiveness of their protection environment. The packages range from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal network security scan packages for small and midsize businesses up to a high-level security evaluation solution for corporations who have to meet security levels required by state agencies or by customers. For each security inventory or evaluation package, consultants with top security credentials analyze and report on collected information and provide suggestions for effective improvements.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP trunk experts and Cisco CUBE integration experts can assist you to design, deploy, manage, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connectivity technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers affordable online or onsite expertise to help you to migrate smoothly to a modern unified communications environment that delivers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can help you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms like Skype for Business Server or Lync Server for connectivity to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Infrastructure
Progent can give you access to 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 identical security, scalability, and manageability you expect from a wired environment. Progent can assist you to implement transparent integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless products from other suppliers to offer your company the features you require as well as the most protected, reliable, and economical wireless networking system available. Progent's CISA and ISSAP security professionals can show you how to design security into your wireless network and your business processes.

Automated Administration Tools for Cisco-based Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Certified network engineers can provide help with Cisco's network management utilities alongside a variety of specialized third-party products to create a comprehensive management automation solution to keep your environment running reliably, conserve limited resources, protect your data, recover quickly from hardware failure or malicious attacks, and enable you to expand or repurpose network resources intelligently and economically as your business grows.

To find out additional details about Progent's consulting and support services for Cisco connectivity and communications solutions, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.