New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Cisco unveiled new products targeted especially for small company IT networks and designed to provide exceptional levels of security and collaboration for an affordable cost. Solutions introduced by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest version of Cisco's SBCS.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a dedicated email security product that essentially eliminates email-based attacks with no set up. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical desktop network-attached storage (NAS) appliances that offer security for valuable data and enable workers to share information effortlessly. Cisco's SBCS Version 1.4, a full collaboration and communications system that easily interconnects offices, workers, and clients anywhere. Cisco's current version incorporates the first wireless desktop VoIP handset with Bluetooth capabilities. To see Cisco's press release, visit Cisco Introduces Connectivity and Collaboration Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker
The Spam Blocker protects small companies by providing extensive defense against junk mail, viruses as well as other email-borne attacks to guard your network and business data and simultaneously enhance productivity. Because the product blocks spam right out of the box and updates on its own, it does away with the expense and hassle required for initial configuration and continuing and management. By eliminating spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker helps the throughput of networks, servers, and computers. The Spam and Virus Blocker is an end-to-end solution email-born attacks by including a physical appliance, software, continuous patches, and product assistance in a single package.

Notable benefits of the Spam Blocker are:

• Accuracy: Helps to ensure that email threats and junk mail are caught and business messages are delivered.
• Continuous automatic updates: Constant interaction with SenderBase security, an online database of email safety risks, makes sure that the Cisco Spam Blocker appliance installs the most current patches to guard your corporate email.
• Easy setup and operation: User-friendly web-based installation wizards permit you to install the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in almost any network in 15 minutes, providing immediate security for your network.
• Effortless management: From the moment you installs the Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, you benefit from junk mail and malware filtering with minimal extra effort required from your network support group.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 provide the dependable protection and comprehensive backup capabilities that your business needs, at a price small organizations can afford. The NSS3000 accommodates as much as to 4 terabytes of data and up to 15 concurrent clients per enclosure, offering the ideal answer for storing, accessing, and archiving your mission-critical business data. Unlike less advanced network-attached storage (NAS) alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art backup, cryptography, client authentication, and service continuity your company needs.

The Cisco NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage Chassis supports any approved disk drive. The product provides a wealth of capabilities in a desktop form factor engineered specifically for small organizations. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also offers you the flexibility to deploy the system without any connected hard drives, to reconfigure it at any time, and to link several NAS chassis together, providing a platform that can smoothly expand with your company.

Your company can utilize the Cisco NSS2000 or 3000 to:

• Automatically back up vital information from every PC and application server in your organization
• Offer centralized storage and distribution of important files
• Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy unattended every version of every file archived by employees, permitting your business to restore data quickly
• Store and save digital video from your company's video security system

Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and complete collaboration and communications system that permits small businesses to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and employees in disparate locations to improve their ability to collaborate with customers and teammates. In the latest release, the aggressively priced solution offers enhanced wireless capabilities including the first wireless desktop IP phone with built-in Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G wireless IP device, which allows businesses to expand easily by deploying handsets in locations where conventional telephone lines or Ethernet wiring is not present or cannot easily be run.

Additional innovative components of the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 are:

• The Cisco 520 Secure Router product to help guard a small business infrastructure and provide employees safe connectivity to the Internet and key business data wherever they are
• The Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to enable partners to simplify the configuration and deployment of solutions created specifically for certain companies

How Progent's Cisco-certified Experts Can Help Your Business to Take Advantage of Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco certified consultants and Cisco CCIE network engineers can help you to evaluate new Cisco technologies to determine their usefulness for your environment, deploy Cisco security and communication platforms to improve the security and performance of your network, and provide tech support for Cisco products both in person and remotely to keep your network operating dependably. Progent's consultants offer a variety of low-cost support services to enhance the dependability, protection, speed, and maintainability of a small business IT network:

Quick Online Access to Cisco CCIE Certified Network Engineers
Progent is the premier provider of easy, immediate, and low-cost access to registered CCIE engineers. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are recognized networking gurus who earn this top-level certification only through thorough examination by Cisco. CCIEs can tackle even the most complicated problems surrounding network architecture, deployment, repair, and management. Progent’s CCIE consultants work closely with Cisco engineers in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS platform and finding fixes or acquiring patches to resolve anomalies. Progent offers fast contact with a CCIE by telephone so that you can receive emergency assistance for tough network troubles that are impacting business productivity but are outside the scope of your local IT support providers. Progent's CCIE consulting engineers can access your environment via advanced off-site support technology in order to deliver timely and cost-effective diagnosis and repair of urgent network difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone consultants can help you to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco IP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices to the latest media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly known as CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to build a an advanced IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can provide expertise with all aspects of Cisco IP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP gateways, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE internetworking capability, and creating Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony solutions for survivability. For more details about Progent's expertise for Cisco's collaboration solutions, read Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications Consulting Services.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally known as CallManager, is the center of Cisco's communications and collaboration portfolio. Cisco Unified CM and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express provide a location-independent IP-PBX solution by integrating with unified messaging applications that include Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for building a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM and CallManager experts can assist with any facet of CUCM configuration and troubleshooting in areas that include integrating Cisco VoIP phones and desktop video phones, reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP connections and PSTN calling, installing ISR routers with CUBE networking support, creating UCS server clustering systems for high availability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent’s experienced Cisco network security consulting professionals provide high-level PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services covering infrastructure design, configuration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home offices to modular enterprise-level products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide advanced security, high throughput, and excellent availability for network environments of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed operating system, minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps.

Network Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's CISM and CISSP-premier security engineers can deliver a variety of budget-friendly security Inventory service packages and security evaluation service bundles created to give organizations of any size an opportunity to get an independent opinion about the quality of their security profile. The packages range from ultra-affordable external network security scan and internal network security scan packages for small and midsize companies up to a high-level network security evaluation package for enterprises who need meet security standards demanded by state agencies or by vendors. For every security inventory or evaluation package, engineers with top security credentials evaluate and report on collected data and provide recommendations for effective improvements.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and CUBE Integration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk experts and CUBE integration consultants can help organizations of any size to plan, integrate, maintain, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP connectivity solutions and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers cost-effective remote or on-premises expertise to assist businesses to migrate efficiently to a productive unified communications ecosystem that delivers accelerated ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can assist you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms such as Skype for Business Server and Lync 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 certified CCNP to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a wide array of wireless products and technologies and offers the same security, scalability, and ease of management you expect from your wired environment. Progent can help you to implement seamless integration between Cisco wireless technology and wireless technology from other suppliers to give your business the features you need as well as the most protected, reliable, and cost-effective wireless networking solution possible. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security consultants can show you how to build security into your WLAN and your business processes.

Simplified Administration Solutions for Cisco-powered Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Certified network consultants offer assistance with Cisco's network management technology alongside a range of specialized third-party applications to build a complete management automation strategy to keep your network running reliably, fully utilize limited resources, protect your information, revive rapidly from hardware failure or malicious assaults, and enable you to expand or reassign network components intelligently and economically as your company evolves.

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