Cisco Premier Support Cisco announced new solutions intended specifically for small company networks and designed to deliver outstanding security and collaboration for an affordable cost. Products announced by Cisco included the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest version of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a dedicated email security product that virtually eradicates email-based threats right out of the box. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint network-attached storage devices that provide security for important information and enable workers to exchange files easily. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4, a complete sharing and communications system that seamlessly interconnects sites, employees, and customers however dispersed. The latest version incorporates the first wireless small-footprint IP handset with Bluetooth support. To view Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Announces Networking Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Support Services The Spam and Virus Blocker protects small organizations by offering extensive protection against spam, malware as well as other email threats to guard your network and business information while at the same time enhance productivity. Because the product stops spam right out of the box and stays current on its own, it eliminates the cost and hassle required for initial configuration and continuing and management. By eliminating spam, Cisco's Spam Blocker helps the throughput of network connections, application servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a comprehensive solution email threats by featuring a physical appliance, intelligent software, ongoing updates, and technical support in a single package.

Notable benefits of Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance are:

  • Precision: Helps to ensure that email-borne attacks and junk mail are intercepted and legitimate email is accepted.
  • Continuous automatic updates: Non-stop communication with SenderBase security, an online library of email safety threats, ensures that your Cisco Spam Blocker incorporates the latest patches to guard your corporate email.
  • Simple installation and use: Easy-to-use browser-based setup tools permit you to configure the Spam and Virus Blocker in nearly any environment within minutes, delivering immediate protection for your business.
  • Effortless administration: From the moment you deploys the the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you get spam and virus filtering with no additional effort demanded from your IT staff.

Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Consulting The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems offer the robust protection and advanced backup features that your business requires, at a price small organizations can afford. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 accommodates up to 4 terabytes of data and as many as 15 concurrent users on each enclosure, provides the optimal solution for holding, accessing, and archiving your mission-critical corporate information. As distinct from less sophisticated network-attached storage alternatives, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 delivers the advanced archiving, encryption, user authentication, and service continuity your organization requires.

The Cisco NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis handles any certified disk. The enclosure provides a wealth of capabilities in a desktop form factor designed specifically for small businesses. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage Chassis also provides you the versatility to configure the product without any connected drives, to modify the product at any time, and to chain several NAS chassis with one another, offering a solution that can continually grow with your company.

Your company can utilize the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or NSS3000 Network Storage Systems to:

  • Intelligently copy important information from every workstation and application server on your network
  • Provide unified preservation and sharing of key information
  • Employ Continuous Data Protection to back up unattended each revision of each file archived by employees, allowing your business to restore files easily
  • Store and archive video from your surveillance system

Cisco SBCS
NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems Consultants The Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive collaboration and communications solution that allows small businesses to interconnect telecommuters, mobile workers and employees in disparate sites to improve their options to communicate with customers and colleagues. In the new release, the affordable solution offers enhanced wireless features such as the first wireless desktop VoIP phone with Bluetooth technology, the Cisco SPA525G VoIP device, which enables businesses to grow easily by adding phones in locations where conventional phone lines or network wiring is missing or cannot conveniently be added.

Other new pieces of the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 include:

  • The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router to help guard a small business infrastructure and provide employees secure connectivity to the Internet and important business information from inside or outside the office
  • Cisco's Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to enable stakeholders to streamline the setup and deployment of solutions created custom for individual companies

How Progent's Certified Professionals Can Assist Your Business to Incorporate Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco consultants and CCIE network engineers can assist you to evaluate new Cisco products to understand their value for your IT system, install Cisco security and communication platforms to enhance the security and performance of your information network, and maintain Cisco devices both in person and remotely to keep your network operating smoothly. Progent's consultants offer a variety of cost-effective support services to enhance the availability, protection, performance, and manageability of your information network:

Immediate Access to Cisco CCIE Certified Engineers
Progent offers convenient, quick, and low-cost support from CCIE Certified support professionals. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are highly-qualified networking experts who are awarded this top-level accreditation only through exhaustive examination by Cisco. CCIEs can resolve the most complicated issues encountered with IT network design, setup, troubleshooting, and service. Progent’s CCIE professionals work closely with Cisco engineers in analyzing issues with Cisco's IOS platform and finding fixes or acquiring software updates to correct anomalies. Progent offers fast contact with a CCIE by phone so that you can receive emergency help for tough network troubles that are undermining business productivity but are beyond the expertise of your ordinary IT service providers. Progent's CCIE support engineers can link to your network via state-of-the-art remote support technology in order to deliver timely and cost-effective diagnosis and repair of urgent network problems.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco-certified IP phone and video IP phone consultants can assist your business to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide expertise for all models of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued VoIP devices to the newest media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist you to integrate your IP phones with Unified CM, originally named CallManager, or with Unified CM Express to build a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can provide expertise with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP gateways, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE internetworking support, and designing Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco SRST solutions for survivability. For additional information concerning Progent's technical support for Cisco's IP voice and video solutions, see Cisco VoIP and Unified Communications Professional Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), originally branded CallManager, operates as the heart of Cisco's communications and collaboration solution. Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express offer a modern IP-PBX solution by integrating closely with unified messaging applications like Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Cisco Unity Connection for voicemail, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for creating a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM consultants can assist with any facet of CUCM configuration and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop video phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN calling, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, designing Cisco UCS server clustering solutions for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting Expertise
Progent’s certified Cisco network security consultants provide high-level PIX and ASA Firewall engineering support covering architecture, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and secure access services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home offices to modular enterprise-grade products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of protection, high throughput, and excellent reliability for network environments of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed operating system, eliminating common OS-specific security gaps.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's CISM and CISSP-certified security engineers can deliver a range of cost-effective network security Inventory service packages and security evaluation bundles designed to give businesses of all sizes an opportunity to receive an objective look at the effectiveness of their security profile. The packages range from low-cost external security scan and internal security scan packages for small companies up to a high-level security evaluation solution for corporations who have to comply with security standards demanded by state agencies or by vendors. For each security assessment package, engineers with high-level security credentials analyze and summarize scanned data and provide suggestions for effective improvements.

SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Integration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk experts and Cisco CUBE configuration experts can help your business to design, integrate, maintain, troubleshoot and upgrade Cisco's SIP infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE-based IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers cost-effective online or on-premises support to assist companies to migrate efficiently to an advanced unified communications network that delivers accelerated return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can assist you to establish connections between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications such as Skype for Business Server and Lync Server for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Services 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 strategy that integrates a wide array of wireless appliances and technologies and provides the same security, expandability, and manageability you demand from your wired network. Progent can help you to implement seamless integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless products from other vendors to give your company the functionality you require as well as the most secure, reliable, and cost-effective WLAN solution possible. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security professionals can show you how to build security into your wireless network and into your company's operations.

Automated Management Tools for Cisco-powered Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Certified network consultants can provide assistance with Cisco's management utilities alongside a variety of specialized third-party products to create a complete network management solution in order to keep your network running reliably, conserve limited resources, protect your information, revive quickly from hardware breakdown or deliberate assaults, and allow you to add or reassign valuable resources sensibly and affordably as your business grows.

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