New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Cisco unveiled new solutions intended especially for small business IT networks and engineered to deliver outstanding protection and collaboration at a budget-friendly price. Solutions introduced by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest version of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a purpose-built email security product that essentially eliminates email attacks right out of the box. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint network-attached storage appliances that offer protection for important data and allow workers to share files easily. Cisco's SBCS Release 1.4, a full collaboration and communications solution that seamlessly interconnects sites, workers, and customers anywhere. The latest release features the industry's debut of a cordless desktop VoIP phone with Bluetooth wireless support. To view Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Unveils Connectivity and Collaboration Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker
The Spam Blocker appliance protects small organizations by offering powerful protection against spam, malware and other email-borne attacks to guard your network and corporate information and simultaneously improve efficiency. Because the appliance stops spam with minimal set up and updates automatically, it eliminates the expense and time associated setup and continuing and administration. By eliminating spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance increases the performance of networks, servers, and computers. The Spam Blocker appliance represents an end-to-end defense against email attacks by featuring a physical appliance, software, ongoing updates, and product support in a single bundle.

Notable benefits of the Spam Blocker appliance include:

• Efficiency: Helps to make sure that email-borne threats and junk mail are caught while legitimate messages are delivered.
• Continuous automatic updates: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase security, an online library of email security threats, ensures that your Spam & Virus Blocker appliance incorporates the most current patches to protect your corporate email.
• Simple installation and operation: User-friendly web-based setup wizards permit you to install Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker in nearly any network in minutes, delivering immediate security for your company.
• Effortless administration: As soon as you installs the Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance, you benefit from junk mail and malware filtering with minimal extra hassle required of your network support staff.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems offer the dependable protection and advanced backup capabilities that your business requires, at a price small businesses can handle. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 accommodates up to four TB of data and as many as 15 concurrent users per chassis, offering the ideal solution for holding, accessing, and backing up your mission-critical corporate data. As distinct from ordinary NAS alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art backup, cryptography, user authentication, and fault tolerance your business needs.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure handles any certified hard disk drive. The chassis provides a wealth of capabilities in a desktop-size footprint engineered specifically for small companies. The NSS3000 Storage enclosure also provides you the flexibility to deploy the product without any connected disks, to reconfigure the product easily, and to chain multiple chassis with one another, offering a platform that can smoothly grow with your business.

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

• Intelligently copy important data from each PC and application server in your business
• Provide unified preservation and distribution of important files
• Run Continuous Data Protection to back up automatically every revision of each file archived by workers, permitting your business to recover files with ease
• Record and archive digital video from your company's surveillance cameras

Cisco Smart Business Communications System
The Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive collaboration and communications solution that permits small businesses to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and employees in separate locations to improve their options to communicate with customers and colleagues. In the latest release, the affordable system has improved wireless support including the first wireless desktop VoIP phone with Bluetooth, the SPA525G IP phone, which allows companies to grow easily by adding handsets in locations where traditional telephone wires or Ethernet wiring is not present or cannot conveniently be added.

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

• Cisco's 520 Secure Router to help protect a small business network and provide employees safe connectivity to the Internet and important business data remotely or locally
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to allow stakeholders to simplify the configuration and installation of solutions created specifically for certain companies

How Progent's Certified Professionals Can Help Your Company to Benefit from Cisco Technology
Progent's Cisco certified support professionals and CCIE accredited networking experts can help your company to assess new Cisco products to determine their usefulness for your IT system, set up Cisco appliances to improve the protection and efficiency of your network, and troubleshoot Cisco devices both onsite and online to keep your IT network running smoothly. Progent's consultants offer a variety of affordable technical services to improve the reliability, security, efficiency, and manageability of your IT system:

Quick Access to Cisco CCIE Certified Engineers
Progent offers easy, immediate, and affordable access to registered CCIE consultants. CCIEs are recognized network experts who earn this prestigious accreditation only after thorough examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to handle the most challenging issues encountered with IT network planning, integration, repair, and management. Progent’s CCIE professionals work closely with Cisco engineers in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS platform and devising fixes or obtaining patches to resolve anomalies. Progent gives you quick access to a CCIE by telephone so you can receive instant assistance for complex network problems that are affecting business productivity but are beyond the expertise of your local network support providers. Progent's CCIE support professionals can link to your network via state-of-the-art off-site support technology to deliver timely and cost-effective analysis and repair of critical network problems.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone consultants can assist you to configure, manage, and debug Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent can provide expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued VoIP devices to the newest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, previously named CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express to create a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can deliver expertise with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP gateways, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and creating Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for survivability. For more information concerning Progent's engineering help for Cisco's Unified Communications solutions, visit Cisco VoIP and Unified Communications Consulting Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM), formerly branded CallManager, functions as the core of Cisco's collaboration portfolio. Unified CM and Cisco Unified CM Express provide an advanced IP-PBX solution by integrating tightly with unified messaging applications such as Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Unity Connection for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for creating a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's CCIE-certified CUCM and CallManager experts can help with any aspect of CUCM setup and debugging in areas that include integrating Voice over IP phones and video phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN calling, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, creating Cisco UCS server clustering solutions for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent’s certified Cisco IT security consultants offer expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services covering architecture, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewalls delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and secure access services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-class appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of security, performance, and high reliability for network environments of any size. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed platform, minimizing common OS-specific security holes.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISA-premier security engineers can provide a range of budget-friendly network security Inventory bundles and security evaluation packages designed to give organizations of any size an opportunity to receive an impartial look at the quality of their security profile. These packages range from low-cost external network security scan and internal security scan options for small and midsize businesses up to a high-end security evaluation package for institutions who need comply with security levels required by state regulators or by customers. For each security assessment bundle, engineers with top security credentials analyze and summarize scanned data and make suggestions for effective improvements.

SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk experts and Cisco CUBE integration consultants can help your business to plan, integrate, manage, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP connectivity technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based SIP trunks. Progent offers cost-effective online or onsite support to assist companies to move efficiently to a productive communications ecosystem that delivers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can assist you to configure connections between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications 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 Solutions
Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that integrates a wide array of wireless products and technologies and provides the same protection, scalability, and manageability you expect from a wired environment. Progent can assist you to implement seamless integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless devices and software from other suppliers to give your business the features you need as well as the most secure, dependable, and cost-effective wireless networking solution possible. Progent's CISA and ISSAP security consultants can advise you about how to design security into your WLAN and your company's processes.

Automated Administration Tools for Cisco-powered IT Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Certified network management consultants offer assistance with Cisco's network management technology along with a selection of powerful third-party products to build a comprehensive management automation solution to keep your environment operating reliably, fully utilize limited resources, protect your information, revive quickly from hardware breakdown or deliberate assaults, and allow you to expand or repurpose network components intelligently and affordably as your company evolves.

To find out additional details about Progent's consulting expertise for Cisco connectivity and communications technology, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.