Cisco Certified Support Services Cisco introduced innovative products targeted especially for small business IT networks and engineered to deliver exceptional protection and connectivity at a budget-friendly cost. Solutions introduced by Cisco included the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest release of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a purpose-built antispam and antivirus security device that essentially eliminates email-based attacks with no set up. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable desktop network-attached storage (NAS) appliances that provide security for valuable data and allow workers to exchange files effortlessly. Cisco's SBCS Version 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications solution that easily interconnects sites, employees, and clients anywhere. The latest version incorporates the industry's first cordless small-footprint VoIP phone with Bluetooth wireless support. To read Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Announces Networking Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
Cisco Spam Blocker Support Services The Spam and Virus Blocker protects small companies by offering powerful defense against spam, viruses and phishing as well as other email threats to guard your system and business data while enhance productivity. Since the appliance stops spam right out of the box and stays current on its own, it does away with the expense and hassle required for initial configuration and ongoing and management. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker increases the throughput of networks, application servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a comprehensive solution email attacks by featuring a physical appliance, intelligent software, ongoing patches, and technical assistance in a unified package.

Notable benefits of the Spam and Virus Blocker are:

  • Efficiency: Helps to make sure that email threats and junk mail are intercepted and business messages are accepted.
  • Continuous automatic patches: Constant interaction with SenderBase security, an online database of email security risks, ensures that the Cisco Spam Blocker appliance installs the latest patches to guard your corporate email.
  • Simple installation and use: Easy-to-use browser-based setup tools allow you to configure Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker in nearly any environment in minutes, providing instant security for your business network.
  • Streamlined management: From the moment your company installs the Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you get spam and virus filtering with no additional hassle demanded from your IT staff.

Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000
NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems Consulting Services The Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 provide the robust security and comprehensive backup capabilities that your business requires, at a cost small companies can afford. The Cisco NSS3000 supports up to four terabytes of data and up to 15 simultaneous users per chassis, offering the ideal solution for holding, accessing, and archiving your vital corporate information. Unlike less sophisticated network-attached storage (NAS) systems, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the advanced backup, cryptography, client validation, and fault tolerance your organization requires.

The Small Business NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage enclosure handles any approved disk. It provides a range of capabilities in a desktop footprint designed specifically for small companies. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage enclosure also offers your business the versatility to deploy the product without any connected hard drives, to reconfigure it at any time, and to link several chassis with one another, providing a solution that can continually grow with your company.

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

  • Intelligently copy important data from each PC and server in your business
  • Offer unified preservation and distribution of important files
  • Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy unattended each version of every file archived by workers, allowing your company to recover information quickly
  • Record and archive digital video from your company's video surveillance cameras

Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
NSS2000 and NSS3000 Support The Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4 is a simple and complete sharing and communications solution that enables small organizations to connect telecommuters, on-the-road workers and employees in disparate sites to enhance their options to collaborate with customers and teammates. In Release 1.4, the aggressively priced solution has improved wireless capabilities including the first wireless desktop IP phone with built-in Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G VoIP phone, which enables businesses to grow cost-effectively by deploying phones in places where traditional telephone wires or network cables are missing or cannot easily be added.

Other innovative pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) 1.4 version include:

  • Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router product to help guard the company's infrastructure and give employees secure access to the Internet and key business data any time, anywhere
  • Cisco's Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to allow stakeholders to streamline the configuration and installation of solutions created specifically for individual companies

How Progent's Certified Engineers Can Help You to Take Advantage of Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco-qualified support professionals and Cisco CCIE networking experts can help your company to evaluate new Cisco technologies to understand their value for your IT system, integrate Cisco solutions to enhance the security and efficiency of your network, and provide tech support for Cisco products both in person and remotely to keep your network operating dependably. Progent's consultants offer a range of affordable services to improve the availability, safety, performance, and manageability of your company's IT network:

Immediate Online Access to Cisco CCIE Certified Network Engineers
Progent delivers convenient, immediate, and cost-effective access to registered CCIE support professionals. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are highly-qualified networking gurus who earn this top-level certification only as a result of comprehensive examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to handle even the most challenging problems associated with IT network architecture, implementation, troubleshooting, and administration. Progent’s CCIE experts cooperate intimately with Cisco in-house staff in identifying issues with Cisco's IOS software and devising workarounds or obtaining patches to resolve problems. Progent gives you fast access to a CCIE by telephone so that you are able to receive emergency help for tough network problems that are impacting worker productivity but are outside the scope of your usual IT support resources. Progent's CCIE support experts can link to your environment using state-of-the-art remote support tools to provide fast and cost-effective analysis and remediation of critical infrastructure problems.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified IP phone and video IP phone experts can assist your business to integrate, maintain, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide expertise for all models of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued VoIP 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 Communications Manager, originally known as CallManager, or with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express to build a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can provide expertise with all aspects of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving QoS, configuring SIP gateways, installing ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and designing UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for high availability. For additional information about Progent's engineering help for Cisco's Unified Communications solutions, go to Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Consulting Help.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, previously known as CallManager, functions as the center of Cisco's collaboration platform. Unified Communications Manager and Unified CM Express provide a borderless IP-PBX solution by integrating tightly with applications that include Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Express for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for creating an advanced customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM experts can assist with any aspect of Unified Communications Manager configuration and debugging in areas such as integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and video IP phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN calling, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE networking support, creating Cisco UCS server clustering solutions for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Support
Progent’s experienced Cisco IT security consulting professionals offer expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall engineering support covering infrastructure design, configuration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and secure access services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home offices to modular gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer advanced protection, performance, and excellent reliability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built platform, eliminating possible OS-specific security holes.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's CISM and CISSP-premier security consultants can deliver a variety of cost-effective security Inventory bundles and security evaluation service packages created to give organizations of any size a chance to receive an independent opinion about the quality of their protection profile. The packages vary from ultra-affordable external network security scan and internal security scan packages for small businesses up to a high-level network security assessment solution for corporations who have to comply with security levels required by state agencies or by vendors. For every security inventory or evaluation package, engineers with high-level security accreditations analyze and report on scanned information and provide suggestions for efficient improvements.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP trunk consultants and Cisco CUBE configuration experts can assist you to plan, integrate, manage, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connectivity solutions and Cisco's CUBE-connected SIP trunks. Progent can provide cost-effective remote or onsite expertise to assist companies to move efficiently to a modern communications environment that offers accelerated ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can help you to establish connections between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications like Skype for Business Server and Lync for connectivity to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Infrastructure
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that incorporates a broad array of wireless devices and technologies and offers the identical protection, expandability, and ease of management you expect from your wired environment. Progent can assist you to achieve seamless integration between Cisco wireless technology and wireless devices and software from other vendors to offer your company the features you require as well as the most protected, dependable, and cost-effective wireless networking solution available. Progent's CISA and ISSAP security consultants can show you how to design security into your wireless network and your company's operations.

Automated Management Tools for Cisco-based IT Networks
Progent's Cisco-Premier network engineers can provide help with Cisco's management tools alongside a range of specialized third-party applications to create a comprehensive management automation solution to keep your environment operating reliably, conserve expensive resources, protect your data, recover quickly from hardware failure or deliberate attacks, and enable you to add or repurpose network components sensibly and affordably as your business grows.

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