New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

Cisco announced innovative products intended specifically for small business IT networks and designed to provide a high degree of protection and connectivity for an affordable cost. Products announced by Cisco included the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest release of Cisco's SBCS.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a purpose-built email security device that virtually eliminates email threats with no set up. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical desktop network-attached storage (NAS) appliances that offer protection for valuable data and allow workers to access shared files effortlessly. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications solution that seamlessly interconnects offices, workers, and customers however dispersed. Cisco's latest version features the debut of a cordless small-footprint IP phone with Bluetooth support. To see Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Unveils Security and Collaboration Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam Blocker
The Spam Blocker appliance safeguards small businesses by providing extensive defense against junk mail, viruses and worms and other email attacks to guard your system and corporate data while improve productivity. Since the device stops spam and viruses right out of the box and updates automatically, it avoids the cost and time required for setup and ongoing and management. By eliminating spam, Cisco's Spam Blocker increases the throughput of network connections, application servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker appliance represents a comprehensive defense against email attacks by featuring a physical appliance, software, continuous updates, and product support in a single bundle.

Key features of the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance include:

• Precision: Assists to ensure that email attacks and junk mail are intercepted while business email is accepted.
• Continuous self-installed patches: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase services, a network library of email safety threats, makes sure that the Spam & Virus Blocker incorporates the most current updates to safequard your corporate email.
• Easy setup and use: User-friendly web-based setup tools permit you to configure Cisco's Spam Blocker in almost any network within minutes, delivering immediate protection for your company.
• Streamlined management: As soon as you deploys the the Spam Blocker, you benefit from spam and malware filtering with no extra hassle required of your IT staff.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000
The Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 provide the dependable security and comprehensive backup capabilities that your company requires, at a cost small companies can handle. The Small Business NSS3000 accommodates up to 4 TB of data and as many as 15 concurrent clients per enclosure, provides the ideal solution for holding, sharing, and backing up your mission-critical corporate information. As distinct from less advanced network-attached storage (NAS) systems, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art archiving, cryptography, user authentication, and fault tolerance your company needs.

The Cisco NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis handles any certified hard disk drive. The product provides a range of capabilities in a desktop-size system designed specifically for small companies. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage Chassis also provides you the flexibility to deploy the product without any attached hard disks, to reconfigure it easily, and to chain multiple NAS chassis with one another, providing a platform that can smoothly grow with your business.

Your company can use the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or NSS3000 to:

• Automatically copy important information from every PC and server on your network
• Offer centralized preservation and distribution of key files
• Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to back up automatically each version of every file saved by employees, permitting your business to restore files quickly
• Record and save video from your surveillance cameras

Cisco Smart Business Communications System
The Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and comprehensive sharing and communications system that permits small businesses to connect telecommuters, on-the-road workers and office workers in disparate locations to improve their ability to interact with customers and colleagues. In Release 1.4, the aggressively priced solution has enhanced wireless capabilities including the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP handset with built-in Bluetooth, the SPA525G VoIP device, which allows businesses to expand easily by installing phones in locations where traditional telephone wires or Ethernet cables are missing or cannot easily be added.

Additional new pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (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 key corporate information from either side of the firewall
• The Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to permit stakeholders to simplify the configuration and deployment of solutions created custom for individual businesses

How Progent's Certified Professionals Can Help You to Incorporate Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco certified consultants and CCIE accredited networking experts can assist you to assess new Cisco technologies to determine their appropriateness for your environment, deploy Cisco appliances to enhance the protection and efficiency of your network, and troubleshoot Cisco devices both onsite and online to keep your IT network running dependably. Progent's consultants offer a range of low-cost support services to enhance the availability, security, performance, and maintainability of your company's IT system:

Quick Online Access to Cisco CCIE Certified Network Engineers
Progent delivers easy, quick, and affordable support from registered CCIE support professionals. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are elite networking experts who earn this prestigious certification only after comprehensive testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to resolve even the most sophisticated issues associated with network architecture, deployment, repair, and maintenance. Progent's CCIE consultants interact intimately with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS software and finding fixes or acquiring software updates to correct problems. Progent your company fast contact with a CCIE by phone so that you can get instant assistance for complex network troubles that are impacting business productivity but are outside the scope of your usual network service providers. Progent's CCIE support experts can link to your environment using advanced off-site connectivity tools to provide fast and cost-effective analysis and remediation of urgent network difficulties.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can help your business to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco IP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent can provide support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP products to the latest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist you to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, originally named CallManager, or with Unified CM Express (CME) to build a modern IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can deliver expertise with all aspects of Cisco IP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, resolving QoS, configuring SIP gateways, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking capability, and designing Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony solutions for high availability. For additional information on Progent's expertise for Cisco's IP voice and video technology, see Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications Consulting Support.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), formerly branded CallManager, functions as the foundation of Cisco's collaboration solution. Unified CM and Unified CM Express (CME) offer an advanced IP-PBX solution by integrating tightly with unified messaging apps such as Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for building an advanced customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified Cisco Unified CM experts can assist with any aspect of Unified Communications Manager support and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating VoIP phones and video IP phones, designing dial plans, setting up SIP connections and PSTN support, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, creating Cisco UCS server clustering systems for high availability, and integration with Exchange Server and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent's certified Cisco network security consulting professionals provide expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services including 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 protection, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-class appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer advanced security, performance, and excellent availability for network environments of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed operating system, eliminating common OS-specific security holes.

Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISA, CISM and CISSP-certified security engineers can provide a range of budget-friendly network security Inventory service packages and security evaluation service packages designed to give organizations of all sizes a chance to receive an independent opinion about the quality of their security profile. The packages range from ultra-affordable external network security scan and internal security scan packages for small and midsize businesses up to a high-level security assessment solution for enterprises who need meet security levels required by government regulators or by customers. For every security assessment package, consultants with top security accreditations analyze and report on scanned data and provide recommendations for efficient improvements.

SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP trunk consultants and CUBE integration experts can assist organizations of any size to design, integrate, maintain, troubleshoot and upgrade Cisco's SIP infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based SIP trunks. Progent offers cost-effective online or onsite support to assist you to move efficiently to an advanced communications environment that delivers accelerated return on investment. Progent's certified Microsoft unified communications experts can assist you to set up connections between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications like Skype for Business or Lync for access to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or certified CCNP to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a broad array of wireless devices and technologies and provides the identical security, expandability, and manageability you demand from a wired environment. Progent can help you to implement transparent interoperability between Cisco wireless products and wireless products from third-party suppliers to offer your company the features you need plus the most secure, reliable, and economical WLAN system available. Progent's CISM and CISSP security specialists can advise you about how to design security into your wireless network and into your company's processes.

Automated Management Solutions for Cisco-based IT Networks
Progent's Cisco-Certified network engineers can provide assistance with Cisco's network management tools along with a variety of specialized third-party applications to build a comprehensive network management solution to keep your environment operating reliably, conserve expensive resources, protect your information, recover rapidly from device breakdown or malicious assaults, and allow you to add or repurpose valuable resources intelligently and economically as your business evolves.

To find out additional information concerning Progent's support services for Cisco networking and communications products, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.