New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

Cisco unveiled new solutions intended specifically for small company networks and engineered to deliver a high degree of security and connectivity for a budget-friendly cost. Solutions announced by Cisco included 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.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a purpose-built spam, virus, and phishing filter 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 appliances that provide protection for valuable information and enable employees to share information easily. Cisco's SBCS Version 1.4, a full sharing and communications solution that easily interconnects sites, workers, and clients however dispersed. Cisco's latest release features the industry's first cordless small-footprint VoIP handset with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To see Cisco's press release, visit Cisco Unveils Networking Solutions for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
The Spam and Virus Blocker protects small organizations by offering extensive protection against spam, malware and other email-borne threats to guard your system and corporate information while at the same time enhance efficiency. Because the device stops spam right out of the box and updates automatically, it does away with the cost and time required for initial configuration and ongoing and management. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance helps the performance of network connections, application servers, and computers. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a comprehensive solution email-born attacks by including a physical appliance, intelligent software, ongoing updates, and technical assistance in a single package.

Notable benefits of Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker are:

• Accuracy: Assists to make sure that email-borne threats and spam are caught and legitimate messages are delivered.
• Continuous automatic updates: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase security, an online library of email security threats, makes sure that the Spam & Virus Blocker appliance installs the latest updates to protect your business email.
• Easy installation and use: Easy-to-use web-based installation tools allow you to configure Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker in almost any environment in minutes, delivering immediate protection for your business.
• Effortless administration: As soon as your company installs the Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance, you get spam and malware filtering with minimal extra effort required from your network support group.

Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems offer the dependable protection and advanced data backup features that your business requires, at a price small businesses can afford. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 accommodates as much as to four terabytes of data and up to 15 concurrent clients per enclosure, provides the optimal solution for holding, accessing, and backing up your vital corporate data. Unlike ordinary network-attached storage alternatives, the Small Business NSS3000 delivers the advanced backup, cryptography, client authentication, and high availability your organization requires.

The NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage enclosure supports any certified disk. The chassis provides a range of features in a desktop-size system engineered specifically for small businesses. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage Chassis also gives your business the flexibility to deploy the product without any connected hard disks, to reconfigure the product at any time, and to link several chassis together, offering a solution that can smoothly grow with your business.

You can use the Cisco NSS2000 or 3000 to:

• Intelligently copy vital information from each desktop and server in your business
• Offer unified preservation and sharing of important information
• Employ Continuous Data Protection to copy automatically each revision of each file saved by employees, allowing you to recover information with ease
• Store and archive digital video from your company's surveillance cameras

Cisco SBCS
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 at-home workers, mobile workers and office workers in separate sites to improve their ability to communicate with customers and colleagues. In the latest release, the affordable solution offers enhanced wireless support including the industry's first wireless desktop IP phone with Bluetooth technology, the Cisco SPA525G IP phone, which enables businesses to expand cost-effectively by deploying handsets in places where traditional telephone lines or Ethernet cables are missing or cannot easily be added.

Other new components of the Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 include:

• The Cisco 520 Secure Router to help guard the company's infrastructure and provide workers safe connectivity to the Internet and important corporate data from inside or outside the office
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to allow stakeholders to simplify the setup and deployment of solutions created custom for certain companies

How Progent's Cisco-certified Professionals Can Assist Your Company to Benefit from Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco-qualified support professionals and Cisco CCIE engineers can help you to assess new Cisco technologies to determine their appropriateness for your environment, configure Cisco security and communication platforms to enhance the security and performance of your network, and provide tech support for Cisco devices both onsite and remotely to keep your IT network operating smoothly. Progent's consultants can provide a variety of low-cost services to enhance the availability, security, efficiency, and maintainability of a small business IT system:

Immediate Online Access to Cisco CCIE Certified Network Engineers
Progent is the premier provider of easy, quick, and affordable access to Cisco CCIE consultants. CCIEs are recognized network experts who earn this prestigious certification only after strenuous testing by Cisco. CCIEs can handle the most complex problems encountered with IT network architecture, integration, troubleshooting, and service. Progent’s CCIE experts interact closely with Cisco engineers in identifying problems with Cisco's IOS platform and developing fixes or obtaining patches to correct anomalies. Progent offers quick access to a CCIE by phone so that you are able to receive urgent help for complex network troubles that are affecting worker efficiency but are outside the scope of your usual IT support providers. Progent's CCIE consulting engineers can link to your network via state-of-the-art off-site support technology in order to provide timely and cost-effective analysis and repair of critical infrastructure difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can assist your business to integrate, manage, and debug Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued VoIP devices to the newest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, originally known as CallManager, or with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express to build a an advanced IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can provide expertise with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP trunking, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE internetworking support, and designing UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony solutions for survivability. For more details about Progent's expertise for Cisco's Unified Communications technology, refer to Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications Professional Support.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), previously named CallManager, functions as the heart of Cisco's collaboration solution. CUCM and Unified CM Express (CME) offer a borderless IP-PBX by integrating with unified messaging applications like Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Connection for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for creating a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's CCIE-certified CUCM and CallManager consultants can assist with any aspect of Unified Communications Manager support and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating Cisco VoIP phones and video phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN calling, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE networking support, designing Cisco 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 consultants provide high-level PIX and ASA Firewall engineering services including infrastructure design, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and safe access services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home businesses to modular enterprise-class products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of protection, performance, and high reliability for IT systems of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built operating system, eliminating possible OS-specific security gaps.

Network Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISA-premier security engineers can deliver a variety of budget-friendly network security Inventory service bundles and security assessment service packages designed to offer businesses of any size an opportunity to get a professional look at the quality of their protection environment. These packages vary from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal network security scan packages for small companies up to a high-end network security evaluation solution for corporations who have to comply with security levels demanded by government agencies or by vendors. For each security assessment bundle, engineers with top security accreditations analyze and report on scanned data and provide recommendations for effective improvements.

SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Integration Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk consultants and Cisco CUBE integration consultants can assist 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 online or onsite expertise to help companies to move smoothly to a modern communications network that delivers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications consultants can help you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications like Skype for Business or Lync Server for connectivity to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Infrastructure
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that integrates a wide array of wireless devices and technologies and offers the identical protection, scalability, and manageability you expect from your wired network. Progent can help you to achieve transparent integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless devices and software from third-party vendors to offer your business the functionality you need as well as the most secure, reliable, and cost-effective wireless networking solution possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security consultants can show you how to design protection into your wireless network and into your company's operations.

Simplified Administration Solutions for Cisco-powered IT Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management engineers can provide assistance with Cisco's management utilities along with a range of powerful third-party applications to create a complete network management strategy to keep your environment operating smoothly, fully utilize expensive resources, protect your information, revive rapidly from device failure or malicious attacks, and enable you to add or reassign valuable components sensibly and affordably as your business evolves.

To find out additional information concerning Progent's consulting services for Cisco connectivity and communications solutions, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.