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Cisco unveiled new products targeted specifically for small business IT networks and engineered to provide high levels of protection and connectivity for an affordable price. Products unveiled by Cisco were Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 release of the SBCS.

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a purpose-built spam, virus, and phishing filter security product that virtually eliminates email-based threats right out of the box. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint NAS appliances that provide security for important data and enable employees to access shared files easily. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4, a full sharing and communications system that seamlessly connects sites, employees, and customers however dispersed. Cisco's current release incorporates the industry's debut of a wireless small-footprint IP handset with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To view Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Introduces Security and Collaboration Solutions for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam Blocker
The Spam Blocker protects small companies by offering extensive protection against spam, viruses and worms as well as other email-borne threats to secure your system and corporate information while improve productivity. Since the device stops spam right out of the box and updates on its own, it avoids the cost and hassle required for initial configuration and continuing and administration. By filtering out spam, Cisco's Spam Blocker increases the performance of networks, servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker appliance is an end-to-end solution email attacks by including hardware, software, continuous updates, and product support in a single package.

Notable features of Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance are:

• Accuracy: Helps to ensure that email threats and spam are caught while legitimate messages are delivered.
• Ongoing self-installed patches: Constant interaction with SenderBase services, an online database of email security risks, makes sure that the Cisco Spam Blocker installs the latest patches to guard your business email.
• Simple installation and use: Easy-to-use web-based setup wizards allow you to configure the Spam and Virus Blocker in almost any network within 15 minutes, providing instant security for your company.
• Effortless management: From the moment your company installs the the Spam Blocker appliance, you benefit from spam and malware protection with no additional effort required from your network support group.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems offer the dependable security and comprehensive data backup features that your business requires, at a price small businesses can afford. The Cisco NSS3000 accommodates as much as to four terabytes of data and up to 15 simultaneous users on each enclosure, provides the optimal solution for holding, accessing, and backing up your mission-critical business information. Unlike less sophisticated network-attached storage (NAS) alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art backup, cryptography, user validation, and high availability your company needs.

The Cisco NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage Chassis handles any certified disk. The enclosure offers a range of capabilities in a desktop form factor engineered for small companies. The NSS3000 Storage enclosure also gives your company the versatility to configure the product without any attached hard disk drives, to reconfigure the product easily, and to link several chassis with one another, providing a solution that can smoothly grow with your business.

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

• Intelligently copy vital information from each PC and server in your business
• Offer centralized storage and sharing of key information
• Employ Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy unattended every version of every file saved by workers, allowing you to restore information with ease
• Store and save video from your company's surveillance system

Cisco Smart Business Communications System
The Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4 is a simple and complete collaboration and communications solution that permits small organizations to interconnect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and office workers in disparate locations to enhance their options to interact with customers and teammates. In Release 1.4, the affordable solution offers improved wireless capabilities such as the first wireless desktop VoIP handset with built-in Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G VoIP device, which allows companies to expand easily by adding handsets in locations where conventional telephone lines or Ethernet wiring is not present or cannot easily be run.

Additional innovative pieces of the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) 1.4 version are:

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router to help guard the company's network and give employees safe access to the Internet and important business data any time, anywhere
• The Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to enable partners to streamline the setup and deployment of solutions created specifically for certain businesses

How Progent's Certified Experts Can Assist Your Business to Incorporate Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco support professionals and Cisco CCIE engineers can assist your company to evaluate the latest Cisco technologies to understand their value for your environment, install Cisco appliances to enhance the security and efficiency of your network, and maintain Cisco devices both in person and online to keep your network operating smoothly. Progent's IT professionals offer a range of affordable services to enhance the availability, security, efficiency, and manageability of your information system:

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Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
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Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
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Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can give you access to a certified CCIE 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 appliances and technologies and provides the identical protection, scalability, and ease of management you demand from a wired environment. Progent can assist you to achieve transparent integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless products from other vendors to give your company the features you need plus the most protected, reliable, and cost-effective wireless networking system possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can advise you about how to build security into your WLAN and into your business operations.

Simplified Administration Solutions for Cisco-powered Small Business Networks
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management engineers can provide assistance with Cisco's management utilities alongside a variety of powerful third-party applications to create a comprehensive network management strategy in order to keep your network operating reliably, fully utilize limited resources, guard your information, recover rapidly from device failure or deliberate attacks, and allow you to expand or repurpose network resources intelligently and affordably as your company evolves.

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