New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

Cisco unveiled new products targeted specifically for small business IT networks and engineered to provide a high degree of security and collaboration for an affordable price. Solutions unveiled by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest release of the Cisco SBCS.

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a dedicated spam, virus, and phishing filter security device that virtually eliminates email-based threats with no set up. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable desktop network-attached storage (NAS) devices that provide protection for important information and enable workers to access shared information easily. The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4, a full collaboration and communications solution that seamlessly interconnects sites, workers, and clients anywhere. Cisco's latest version incorporates the debut of a wireless small-footprint VoIP phone with Bluetooth wireless support. To see Cisco's press release, visit Cisco Introduces Connectivity and Collaboration Products for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
The Spam Blocker appliance protects small companies by offering powerful protection against junk mail, viruses and other email threats to secure your network and business information while improve productivity. Because the appliance blocks spam right out of the box and stays current on its own, it avoids the expense and hassle associated setup and ongoing and administration. By eliminating spam, Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance increases the throughput of networks, servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker represents a comprehensive defense against email threats by featuring a physical appliance, intelligent software, ongoing updates, and technical assistance in a unified bundle.

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

• Efficiency: Assists to make sure that email attacks and spam are caught and legitimate email is delivered.
• Ongoing self-installed patches: Non-stop communication with SenderBase security, an online library of email security risks, makes sure that your Spam & Virus Blocker incorporates the latest updates to guard your corporate email.
• Simple setup and use: Easy-to-use browser-based installation wizards permit you to install the Spam Blocker appliance in almost any network within 15 minutes, providing immediate security for your business network.
• Effortless management: From the moment your company deploys the Cisco's Spam Blocker, you get spam and virus protection with minimal additional effort required from your IT group.

Cisco NSS2000 and 3000
The Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems provide the robust protection and comprehensive backup capabilities that your business needs, at a cost small companies can afford. The Cisco NSS3000 supports up to four terabytes of data and as many as 15 simultaneous users on each enclosure, provides the ideal solution for storing, sharing, and archiving your vital corporate data. Unlike entry-level network-attached storage systems, the Cisco NSS3000 provides the advanced backup, cryptography, user validation, and service continuity your company needs.

The Small Business NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage Chassis supports any certified drive. It offers a range of capabilities in a desktop system engineered specifically for small companies. The NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also offers your company the flexibility to deploy the system without any attached disk drives, to modify the product easily, and to chain several Cisco NAS chassis together, providing a platform that can smoothly grow with your company.

You can use the NSS2000 or NSS3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Intelligently back up important data from each workstation and application server in your company
• Offer centralized storage and sharing of key files
• Run Continuous Data Protection to back up automatically every version of each file saved by employees, permitting your business to restore information with ease
• Record and archive digital video from your surveillance cameras

Cisco Smart Business Communications System
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and complete collaboration and communications solution that permits small businesses to interconnect telecommuters, on-the-road workers and employees in separate locations to enhance their options to interact with clients and teammates. In Release 1.4, the aggressively priced system offers enhanced wireless features including the first wireless desktop VoIP handset with Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G IP device, which allows companies to grow easily by adding handsets in locations where conventional phone wires or Ethernet wiring is missing or cannot conveniently be added.

Additional new components of the Cisco SBCS 1.4 version are:

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router product to help guard a small business network and give employees secure connectivity to the Internet and important corporate information from inside or outside the office
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to allow stakeholders to simplify the configuration and installation of solutions designed custom for certain businesses

How Progent's Consulting Experts Can Assist Your Business to Benefit from Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco-qualified consultants and CCIE network engineers can help your company to evaluate the latest Cisco technologies to determine their business value for your IT system, set up Cisco solutions to improve the protection and efficiency of your network, and troubleshoot Cisco devices both onsite and remotely to keep your IT network running smoothly. Progent's consultants can provide a variety of low-cost support services to improve the availability, safety, speed, and maintainability of your information system:

Quick Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Engineers
Progent is the leading source of convenient, quick, and low-cost access to Cisco CCIE consultants. CCIEs are recognized network gurus who are awarded this top-level certification only through exhaustive examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to tackle even the most challenging problems associated with IT network design, deployment, troubleshooting, and management. Progent’s CCIE professionals interact closely with Cisco engineers in identifying problems with Cisco's IOS platform and developing workarounds or obtaining software updates to resolve problems. Progent gives you fast contact with a CCIE by phone so you can get instant help for tough network problems that are impacting worker productivity but are beyond the expertise of your ordinary IT support resources. Progent's CCIE support professionals can link to your environment using state-of-the-art remote support technology in order to deliver fast and cost-effective diagnosis and repair of critical network difficulties.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified IP phone and video IP phone experts can help your business to integrate, maintain, and debug Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued VoIP products to the newest media phones. Progent's consultants can also help you to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, previously known as CallManager, or with Unified CM Express to build a state-of-the-art IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent's consultants can deliver support with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP gateways, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE internetworking capability, and creating Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) solutions for high availability. For more details about Progent's technical support for Cisco's IP voice and video technology, go to Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications Engineering Services.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly named CallManager, is the core of Cisco's collaboration platform. Unified Communications Manager and Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) provide a modern IP-PBX solution by integrating with unified messaging applications such as Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for building a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's CCIE-certified Cisco Unified CM experts can help with any aspect of Unified CM configuration and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating Voice over IP phones and desktop video phones, designing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN calling, deploying ISR routers with CUBE support, creating UCS server failover solutions for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Support
Progent’s certified Cisco IT security consultants offer high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting services including architecture, integration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home offices to modular enterprise-level products, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of protection, performance, and high reliability for network environments of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built platform, minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps.

Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISA-premier security engineers can deliver a range of budget-friendly security Inventory service bundles and network security evaluation bundles created to give organizations of any size a chance to receive an objective opinion about the quality of their security profile. The packages vary from low-cost external security scan and internal network security scan options for small businesses up to a high-level network security evaluation package for institutions who need comply with security levels required by state regulators or by customers. For each security assessment bundle, engineers with high-level security accreditations analyze and report on collected information and make suggestions for effective remediation.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP infrastructure experts and CUBE integration experts can assist you to design, deploy, maintain, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connectivity solutions and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based IP PSTN trunks. Progent can provide affordable online or onsite support to help companies to migrate smoothly to an advanced unified communications environment that offers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration consultants can assist you to establish connections between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's rich media platforms like Skype for Business or Lync for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Infrastructure
Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a broad array of wireless products and technologies and offers the same protection, scalability, and manageability you demand from your wired network. Progent can assist you to implement seamless integration between Cisco wireless technology and wireless products from other vendors to offer your business the features you require plus the most protected, dependable, and cost-effective wireless networking solution possible. Progent's CISA and ISSAP security consultants can show you how to design security into your WLAN and your company's operations.

Automated Administration Tools for Cisco-based IT Networks
Progent's Cisco-Premier network consultants can provide help with Cisco's network management technology alongside a selection of specialized third-party applications to build a complete management automation strategy in order to keep your environment running smoothly, fully utilize limited resources, guard your data, revive quickly from device failure or malicious assaults, and enable you to add or repurpose valuable resources intelligently and economically as your business grows.

For additional details about Progent's support services for Cisco connectivity and security technology, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.