Cisco Certified Support Cisco introduced innovative products targeted specifically for small company IT networks and engineered to deliver exceptional levels of protection and collaboration for a budget-friendly price. Products introduced by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest version of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam Blocker appliance is a dedicated spam, virus, and phishing filter security product that virtually eradicates email-based attacks with no set up. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint network-attached storage (NAS) devices that provide protection for important information and allow workers to share files effortlessly. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4, a full sharing and communications solution that seamlessly interconnects sites, workers, and clients however dispersed. Cisco's latest version incorporates the debut of a cordless desktop Internet Protocol (IP) phone with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To read Cisco's press release, visit Cisco Announces Networking Products for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker
Cisco Spam Blocker Consulting Services The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance protects small organizations by offering powerful defense against junk mail, viruses and worms as well as other email threats to secure your network and business information while at the same time improve productivity. Since the product stops spam and viruses with minimal set up and updates on its own, it eliminates the cost and time associated initial configuration and ongoing and administration. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker increases the throughput of network connections, servers, and computers. The Spam Blocker is a comprehensive defense against email-born threats by including hardware, intelligent software, ongoing patches, and technical assistance in a single package.

Key benefits of the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance include:

  • Precision: Helps to ensure that email attacks and spam are caught and legitimate email is delivered.
  • Ongoing automatic updates: Constant communication with SenderBase services, a network database of email security threats, makes sure that your Spam & Virus Blocker installs the latest patches to guard your business email.
  • Simple installation and operation: User-friendly web-based installation tools allow you to install Cisco's Spam Blocker in practically any environment in minutes, delivering immediate security for your network.
  • Streamlined management: As soon as your company installs the the Spam Blocker appliance, you benefit from spam and virus filtering with minimal extra hassle demanded of your network support staff.

Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems Consulting The Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems provide the robust protection and comprehensive backup capabilities that your company needs, at a price small businesses can afford. The NSS3000 accommodates up to four TB of data and up to 15 concurrent users on each chassis, offering the optimal answer for holding, accessing, and backing up your vital corporate data. As distinct from ordinary NAS alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the advanced archiving, encryption, client validation, and service continuity your company requires.

The NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage Chassis handles any approved hard drive. The product provides a range of capabilities in a desktop-size form factor designed specifically for small businesses. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also gives your business the flexibility to configure the system without any connected drives, to modify it easily, and to link multiple chassis together, offering a solution that can continually expand with your company.

Your company can utilize the NSS2000 or NSS3000 to:

  • Automatically back up important information from every desktop and application server in your company
  • Provide centralized storage and distribution of important information
  • Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to back up unattended every revision of each file saved by workers, allowing your company to restore data easily
  • Store and save video from your video surveillance system

Cisco SBCS
Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems Support The Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and complete collaboration and communications system that allows small companies to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and employees in disparate sites to enhance their ability to interact with customers and teammates. In Release 1.4, the aggressively priced system has enhanced wireless capabilities including the industry's first wireless desktop IP phone with Bluetooth, the SPA525G VoIP device, which enables companies to grow easily by adding phones in places where conventional telephone lines or network cables are not present or cannot conveniently be run.

Other innovative pieces of the Smart Business Communications System 1.4 version are:

  • The Cisco 520 Secure Router product to help protect a small business network and provide employees secure access to the Internet and key corporate information remotely or locally
  • The Cisco Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to allow stakeholders to streamline the setup and installation of solutions designed custom for certain businesses

How Progent's Cisco-certified Experts Can Help Your Company to Incorporate Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco certified support professionals and Cisco CCIE network engineers can assist your company to evaluate the latest Cisco technologies to understand their usefulness for your environment, integrate Cisco security and communication platforms to enhance the security and efficiency of your network, and provide tech support for Cisco devices both in person and online to keep your network operating dependably. Progent's consultants can provide a range of affordable technical services to enhance the dependability, protection, speed, and manageability of your information network:

Immediate Access to Cisco CCIE Certified Network Engineers
Progent is the premier provider of easy, quick, and low-cost help from Cisco CCIE engineers. CCIEs are recognized networking gurus who earn this prestigious classification only as a result of thorough testing by Cisco. CCIEs can resolve even the most sophisticated problems surrounding IT network architecture, setup, repair, and support. Progent’s CCIE professionals interact intimately with Cisco engineers in analyzing issues with Cisco's IOS software and devising fixes or acquiring patches to correct anomalies. Progent can provide fast contact with a CCIE by telephone so you are able to receive urgent assistance for complex network problems that are impacting worker productivity but are beyond the scope of your usual IT support resources. Progent's CCIE support engineers can link to your environment via state-of-the-art remote support tools to provide fast and cost-effective diagnosis and remediation of urgent infrastructure problems.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco-certified IP phone and video IP phone experts can help your business to integrate, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued VoIP devices to the newest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help your organization to integrate your IP phones with Unified CM, formerly branded CallManager, or with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to build a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent can deliver expertise with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP trunking, deploying ISR routers with CUBE internetworking support, and designing UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for high availability. For additional details concerning Progent's support for Cisco's collaboration solutions, go to Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Professional Services.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM), formerly branded CallManager, operates as the center of Cisco's collaboration portfolio. CUCM and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express offer an advanced IP-PBX solution by integrating closely with apps like Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Express for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for creating a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's CCIE-certified CUCM consultants can assist with any facet of Unified Communications Manager setup and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating Cisco VoIP phones and desktop video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN support, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, designing UCS server clustering systems for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent’s experienced Cisco IT security consulting professionals provide high-level PIX and ASA Firewall consulting support including architecture, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home businesses to scalable enterprise-level appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer advanced protection, performance, and high availability for network environments of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built operating system, eliminating common OS-specific security holes.

Network Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's CISM and CISSP-certified security consultants can provide a variety of budget-friendly security Inventory bundles and security evaluation bundles designed to give businesses of any size a chance to get an impartial opinion about the strength of their protection environment. The packages range from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal security scan options for small and midsize businesses up to a high-end network security assessment solution for enterprises who need comply with security levels required by government regulators or by customers. For each security inventory or evaluation bundle, consultants with high-level security accreditations analyze and report on scanned data and make recommendations for effective remediation.

SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk experts and CUBE configuration consultants can help organizations of any size to plan, deploy, maintain, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers cost-effective online or on-premises expertise to help companies to migrate smoothly to a modern unified communications environment that offers fast return on investment. 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 platforms such as Skype for Business Server or Lync for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that incorporates a wide array of wireless products and technologies and provides the same protection, expandability, and manageability you demand from your wired environment. Progent can help you to implement transparent interoperability between Cisco wireless products and wireless devices and software from other suppliers to give your company the functionality you require as well as the most secure, dependable, and cost-effective WLAN system possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can show you how to build protection into your wireless network and your business operations.

Automated Management Solutions for Cisco-based Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network consultants offer assistance with Cisco's management technology alongside a variety of specialized third-party products to create a complete network management solution to keep your network operating smoothly, fully utilize expensive resources, guard your information, revive rapidly from device failure or deliberate attacks, and allow you to add or reassign network components sensibly and affordably as your business evolves.

To learn more information about Progent's consulting services for Cisco networking and communications solutions, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.