Cisco Certified Consulting Cisco unveiled new solutions targeted especially for small business IT networks and designed to provide exceptional levels of protection and collaboration for a budget-friendly cost. Solutions announced by Cisco were Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 version of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a dedicated email security product that virtually eliminates email attacks with no set up. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable desktop network-attached storage appliances that provide protection for valuable data and enable employees to exchange information effortlessly. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4, a full sharing and communications system that easily connects sites, workers, and clients however dispersed. Cisco's current release features the industry's first cordless desktop IP phone with Bluetooth capabilities. To see Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Announces Networking Solutions for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Consulting and Support The Spam Blocker appliance protects small businesses by providing extensive protection against junk mail, viruses and phishing as well as other email threats to guard your system and business data and simultaneously enhance productivity. Since the device blocks spam right out of the box and stays current automatically, it eliminates the expense and hassle with setup and ongoing and administration. By filtering out spam, Cisco's Spam Blocker helps the performance of network connections, servers, and computers. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance represents a comprehensive solution email attacks by including hardware, software, ongoing patches, and technical assistance in a single bundle.

Key features of the Spam Blocker include:

  • Accuracy: Helps to make sure that email-borne attacks and junk mail are intercepted while business messages are allowed through.
  • Ongoing self-installed patches: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase security, a network database of email security threats, makes sure that the Cisco Spam Blocker installs the most current patches to protect your business email.
  • Simple installation and use: User-friendly web-based setup wizards allow you to configure Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in practically any environment in minutes, delivering instant protection for your company.
  • Effortless administration: As soon as your company deploys the Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, you get junk mail and malware protection with no additional hassle demanded of your network support staff.

Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Support Services The Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems provide the dependable protection and comprehensive backup features that your company needs, at a cost small companies can handle. The NSS3000 accommodates up to 4 terabytes of data and up to 15 simultaneous clients per chassis, provides the ideal solution for storing, sharing, and archiving your mission-critical corporate data. As distinct from entry-level network-attached storage (NAS) systems, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the advanced archiving, cryptography, user validation, and fault tolerance your organization requires.

The NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure supports any approved hard disk drive. The chassis offers a range of features in a desktop-size form factor designed specifically for small organizations. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage Chassis also provides your company the versatility to deploy the system without any attached disks, to reconfigure the product at any time, and to link several chassis together, providing a platform that can continually grow with your business.

Your business can use the NSS2000 or 3000 to:

  • Automatically copy important information from each workstation and server in your organization
  • Offer unified storage and sharing of important information
  • Run Continuous Data Protection to back up unattended every revision of each file archived by employees, permitting you to restore files easily
  • Record and save video from your company's surveillance cameras

Smart Business Communications System
Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems Consultants The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 is a simple and complete collaboration and communications solution that permits small organizations to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and office workers in separate locations to improve their ability to interact with customers and teammates. In Release 1.4, the aggressively priced system has improved wireless support including the first wireless desktop VoIP phone with Bluetooth technology, the Cisco SPA525G VoIP device, which enables businesses to expand cost-effectively by installing handsets in locations where conventional telephone wires or network cables are not present or cannot easily be added.

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

  • Cisco's 520 Secure Router product to help guard a small business infrastructure and provide employees safe access to the Internet and important corporate data from either side of the firewall
  • The Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to permit partners to simplify the setup and installation of solutions created custom for certain companies

How Progent's Consulting Engineers Can Help You to Benefit from Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco support professionals and Cisco CCIE networking experts can assist your company to evaluate new Cisco technologies to determine their value for your environment, integrate Cisco solutions to improve the protection and efficiency of your information network, and troubleshoot Cisco devices both in person and remotely to keep your IT network running dependably. Progent's IT professionals can provide a variety of low-cost support services to improve the reliability, protection, efficiency, and manageability of your information network:

Immediate Access to Cisco CCIE Network Engineers
Progent delivers easy, quick, and cost-effective assistance from registered CCIE consultants. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are recognized network gurus who are awarded this prestigious classification only through exhaustive examination by Cisco. CCIEs can resolve the most complex problems associated with IT network architecture, deployment, repair, and service. Progent’s CCIE professionals interact intimately with Cisco in-house staff in identifying problems with Cisco's IOS platform and developing workarounds or obtaining software updates to resolve problems. Progent gives you fast access to a CCIE by phone so you are able to receive urgent help for complex network troubles that are affecting business efficiency but are outside the expertise of your ordinary network service resources. Progent's CCIE consulting professionals can access your network using state-of-the-art remote support technology to deliver timely and cost-effective diagnosis and remediation of critical network difficulties.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco-certified IP phone and video IP phone experts can assist you to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy VoIP devices to the newest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist you to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Unified CM, originally named CallManager, or with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express to create a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can deliver support with all aspects of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving QoS, setting up SIP gateways, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking capability, and designing UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony systems for survivability. For additional information on Progent's technical support for Cisco's IP voice and video technology, read Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Professional Support.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), originally known as CallManager, functions as the heart of Cisco's collaboration platform. Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express offer a borderless IP-PBX by integrating with unified messaging apps that include Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Connection for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Cisco Contact Center Express (Unified CCX or CCX) for creating a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's CCIE-certified Cisco Unified CM consultants can help with any facet of CUCM support and debugging in areas such as integrating Voice over IP phones and desktop video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP connections and PSTN support, deploying Cisco ISR routers with CUBE support, designing 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 experienced Cisco IT security consulting professionals provide expert PIX and ASA Firewall engineering support including infrastructure design, integration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and secure access services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home businesses to scalable enterprise-grade appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of protection, high throughput, and excellent availability for network environments of any size. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed operating system, minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps.

Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISA, CISM and CISSP-premier security consultants can provide a range of budget-friendly security Inventory service bundles and security assessment service bundles designed to give businesses of all sizes a chance to receive an impartial opinion about the effectiveness of their security environment. These packages range from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal security scan packages for small and midsize businesses up to a high-level security assessment solution for enterprises who have to comply with security standards required by state agencies or by customers. For every security assessment package, engineers with top security credentials evaluate and summarize scanned data and make recommendations for effective improvements.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Consulting
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP infrastructure experts and Cisco CUBE integration consultants can help your business to plan, deploy, manage, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based SIP trunks. Progent offers affordable online or onsite expertise to help you to move smoothly to an advanced communications ecosystem that offers accelerated return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications consultants can assist you to configure connections between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms like Skype for Business Server and Lync for connectivity to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can give you access to a certified CCIE or certified CCNP to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that incorporates a broad range of wireless devices and technologies and provides the identical protection, scalability, and manageability you demand from your wired environment. Progent can assist you to implement seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless technology and wireless technology from third-party suppliers to give your company the features you need as well as the most protected, reliable, and economical WLAN solution possible. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security specialists can advise you about how to design protection into your wireless network and your company's processes.

Simplified Administration Solutions for Cisco-based Small Business Networks
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management engineers offer help with Cisco's network management technology alongside a variety of powerful third-party applications to create a complete network management solution to keep your environment operating reliably, conserve limited resources, guard your information, recover quickly from device failure or deliberate attacks, and enable you to add or repurpose network resources intelligently and affordably as your company grows.

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