Cisco Premier Consulting Services Cisco introduced innovative solutions targeted especially for small business IT networks and engineered to provide a high degree of protection and connectivity at an affordable price. Solutions unveiled by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest version of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a dedicated antispam and antivirus security product that virtually eliminates email threats as shipped. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable desktop network-attached storage appliances that provide protection for important data and allow workers to exchange information effortlessly. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications solution that easily connects sites, employees, and clients however dispersed. The latest release incorporates the first wireless small-footprint VoIP phone with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To see Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Announces Security and Collaboration Solutions for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker
Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Consulting Services The Spam and Virus Blocker protects small companies by offering powerful protection against junk mail, viruses and phishing and other email-borne threats to secure your system and corporate information while at the same time improve productivity. Because the device stops spam and viruses right out of the box and stays current automatically, it avoids the expense and time with setup and continuing and administration. By filtering out spam, Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance increases the throughput of network connections, servers, and computers. The Spam Blocker appliance is a comprehensive solution email-born attacks by including a physical appliance, software, continuous patches, and technical support in a single bundle.

Notable benefits of the Spam and Virus Blocker are:

  • Precision: Helps to make sure that email threats and spam are caught while legitimate email is allowed through.
  • Continuous automatic patches: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase security, an online library of email security threats, ensures that the Cisco Spam Blocker installs the latest updates to safequard your corporate email.
  • Easy installation and use: User-friendly browser-based setup wizards permit you to configure Cisco's Spam Blocker in nearly any network within 15 minutes, delivering immediate security for your network.
  • Streamlined management: As soon as your company installs the Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you benefit from spam and malware protection with no additional effort demanded from your IT staff.

Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000
Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Help The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 offer the dependable protection and comprehensive backup capabilities that your company requires, at a price small companies can handle. The Cisco NSS3000 supports up to four TB of data and up to 15 concurrent users per chassis, offering the optimal solution for holding, sharing, and archiving your mission-critical corporate data. Unlike less advanced network-attached storage alternatives, the NSS3000 delivers the advanced backup, cryptography, user authentication, and high uptime your business requires.

The NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage Chassis handles any certified hard disk. The chassis provides a range of features in a desktop-size system designed for small businesses. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also gives your company the flexibility to deploy the system without any connected hard drives, to reconfigure the product easily, and to chain several chassis with one another, offering a platform that can continually grow with your company.

Your company can utilize the NSS2000 or 3000 Network Storage Systems to:

  • Automatically back up vital information from each PC and server in your company
  • Offer unified preservation and sharing of key information
  • Employ Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to back up unattended every revision of every file archived by workers, allowing you to recover information easily
  • Store and archive digital video from your video surveillance cameras

Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Help The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and complete sharing and communications system that allows small organizations to connect telecommuters, on-the-road workers and employees in separate sites to enhance their ability to interact with customers and teammates. In Release 1.4, the affordable solution offers improved wireless features including the industry's first wireless desktop IP phone with Bluetooth, the SPA525G wireless IP device, which enables businesses to expand cost-effectively by adding handsets in locations where conventional telephone wires or network wiring is not present or cannot easily be run.

Additional new components of the Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 are:

  • Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router product to help guard a small business infrastructure and give employees safe access to the Internet and key business data from either side of the firewall
  • Cisco's Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to allow stakeholders to simplify the setup and installation of solutions created custom for certain companies

How Progent's Cisco-certified Engineers Can Help Your Company to Incorporate Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco consultants and CCIE accredited networking experts can assist your company to evaluate new Cisco technologies to determine their appropriateness for your environment, deploy Cisco solutions to enhance the security and efficiency of your network, and troubleshoot Cisco devices both in person and remotely to keep your network running smoothly. Progent's consultants offer a variety of low-cost technical services to improve the availability, protection, efficiency, and manageability of a small business information network:

Quick Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Network Engineers
Progent delivers easy, quick, and affordable access to Cisco CCIE support professionals. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are elite networking experts who earn this prestigious accreditation only after comprehensive testing by Cisco. CCIEs can resolve even the most challenging issues surrounding IT network planning, setup, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Progent’s CCIE consultants interact intimately with Cisco engineers in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS platform and devising fixes or obtaining patches to correct problems. Progent gives you quick access to a CCIE by telephone so that you are able to receive instant assistance for tough network problems that are affecting business productivity but are outside the expertise of your usual network service resources. Progent's CCIE consulting professionals can link to your environment using advanced off-site support technology to provide timely and cost-effective analysis and remediation of urgent network difficulties.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can help you to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent can provide support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP products to the newest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, previously named CallManager, or with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to create a an advanced IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent can provide support with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP gateways, installing ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and designing Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony systems for high availability. For additional information concerning Progent's services for Cisco's collaboration solutions, go to Cisco VoIP and Unified Communications Professional Help.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM), formerly branded CallManager, acts as the core of Cisco's communications and collaboration platform. Cisco Unified CM and Unified CM Express provide an advanced IP-PBX by integrating with unified messaging applications that include Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Express for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Cisco Contact Center Express (Unified CCX or CCX) for building an advanced customer contact solution. Progent's CCIE-certified CUCM and CallManager experts can help with any facet of Unified CM configuration and debugging in areas that include integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and video phones, designing dial plans, setting up SIP connections and PSTN support, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE networking support, designing Cisco UCS server failover systems for survivability, and integration with Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent’s experienced Cisco IT security consulting professionals provide expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting support including architecture, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and secure access services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-level products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of protection, performance, and excellent reliability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed operating system, minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps.

Network Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC, CISA and CISM-premier security engineers can deliver a range of budget-friendly network security Inventory packages and security assessment bundles designed to offer businesses of any size a chance to get an independent look at the quality of their security profile. These packages range from low-cost external network security scan and internal security scan options for small and midsize businesses up to a high-end network security assessment solution for enterprises who have to comply with security levels required by government regulators or by vendors. For each security inventory or evaluation bundle, consultants with top security accreditations analyze and summarize scanned data and provide recommendations for efficient remediation.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk experts and Cisco CUBE integration experts can assist you to plan, integrate, maintain, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based SIP trunks. Progent offers cost-effective online or onsite support to assist you to move smoothly to an advanced unified communications ecosystem that delivers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications experts can assist you to establish connections between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications like Skype for Business and Lync Server for connectivity to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Products
Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that integrates a wide array of wireless products and technologies and provides the identical security, scalability, and manageability you demand from a wired environment. Progent can help you to implement seamless integration between Cisco wireless technology and wireless products from other vendors to give your business the functionality you require plus the most protected, dependable, and cost-effective WLAN system possible. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security specialists can show you how to build protection into your WLAN and your company's operations.

Simplified Management Solutions for Cisco-based Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network engineers offer assistance with Cisco's network management technology along with a selection of powerful third-party products to create a complete management automation strategy to keep your network running reliably, conserve expensive resources, guard your information, recover rapidly from hardware breakdown or deliberate attacks, and allow you to expand or reassign network components intelligently and affordably as your business evolves.

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