Cisco Premier Certified Support Services Cisco announced new solutions intended especially for small company IT networks and engineered to deliver exceptional levels of security and connectivity at a budget-friendly cost. Solutions announced by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest release of the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a purpose-built spam, virus, and phishing filter security device that virtually eradicates email attacks as shipped. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint network-attached storage devices that offer security for valuable data and allow workers to access shared information easily. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications solution that easily connects offices, workers, and clients however dispersed. The latest version features the debut of a cordless desktop Internet Protocol (IP) handset with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To view Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Introduces Networking and Security Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
Cisco Spam Blocker Consulting Services The Spam and Virus Blocker safeguards small businesses by providing extensive protection against spam, viruses and other email threats to guard your network and corporate data and simultaneously enhance efficiency. Because the appliance stops spam and viruses with minimal set up and stays current on its own, it avoids the expense and hassle required for initial configuration and ongoing and administration. By filtering out spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker helps the throughput of networks, application servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker represents a comprehensive solution email threats by including a physical appliance, intelligent software, continuous patches, and product assistance in a single package.

Key features of the Spam Blocker appliance are:

  • Efficiency: Helps to make sure that email attacks and junk mail are intercepted while business email is allowed through.
  • Ongoing automatic updates: Constant communication with SenderBase security, a network database of email security risks, ensures that the Cisco Spam Blocker appliance installs the most current updates to guard your business email.
  • Simple installation and use: User-friendly browser-based setup tools permit you to install the Spam Blocker appliance in almost any network in 15 minutes, providing instant protection for your business network.
  • Streamlined management: As soon as your company deploys the the Spam Blocker appliance, you get junk mail and malware filtering with no extra hassle demanded of your IT group.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000
Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Consulting and Support The Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 provide the robust protection and comprehensive backup capabilities that your company needs, at a price small organizations can handle. The NSS3000 accommodates up to 4 TB of data and as many as 15 concurrent users per enclosure, provides the optimal solution for storing, accessing, and backing up your vital corporate information. Unlike entry-level NAS systems, the NSS3000 provides the advanced archiving, encryption, user validation, and high uptime your organization requires.

The Cisco NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis handles any certified hard disk drive. The chassis provides a range of features in a desktop form factor engineered for small organizations. The NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also offers your company the flexibility to configure the system without any connected hard drives, to modify it easily, and to link multiple chassis together, offering a solution that can continually grow with your business.

Your company can utilize the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or NSS3000 to:

  • Intelligently copy vital information from every workstation and application server in your organization
  • Provide centralized storage and sharing of important files
  • Employ Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy automatically each revision of each file archived by employees, allowing your company to restore data easily
  • Record and save digital video from your company's video security system

Cisco Smart Business Communications System
Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Support Services The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive collaboration and communications system that allows small organizations to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and employees in disparate locations to enhance their ability to communicate with customers and teammates. In Release 1.4, the aggressively priced solution has improved wireless features including the industry's first wireless desktop IP handset with Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G wireless IP phone, which enables businesses to grow easily by installing phones in locations where traditional phone lines or Ethernet cables are missing or cannot easily be run.

Other new components of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System 1.4 version are:

  • The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router to help protect a small business network and give workers safe connectivity to the Internet and important business information any time, anywhere
  • Cisco's Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to allow partners to simplify the configuration and deployment of solutions designed custom for certain businesses

How Progent's Certified Professionals Can Assist Your Business to Deploy Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco support professionals and CCIE engineers can assist your company to evaluate the latest Cisco products to determine their appropriateness for your IT system, deploy Cisco appliances to enhance the security and performance of your network, and maintain Cisco devices both in person and remotely to keep your IT network running dependably. Progent's consulting experts offer a range of low-cost technical services to enhance the reliability, safety, efficiency, and manageability of a small business IT system:

Quick Access to Cisco CCIE Network Engineers
Progent is the leading source of convenient, immediate, and low-cost support from registered CCIE engineers. CCIEs are recognized networking gurus who are awarded this top-level certification only through strenuous examination by Cisco. CCIEs can tackle even the most sophisticated problems encountered with network infrastructure design, integration, troubleshooting, and support. Progent’s CCIE experts work intimately with Cisco engineers in analyzing issues with Cisco's IOS platform and devising workarounds or obtaining software updates to resolve problems. Progent offers immediate contact with a CCIE by phone so that you are able to get urgent help for complex network problems that are impacting business efficiency but are outside the scope of your ordinary IT service providers. Progent's CCIE support experts can link to your environment via state-of-the-art remote connectivity technology in order to deliver timely and cost-effective diagnosis and repair of urgent network problems.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco-certified IP phone and video IP phone consultants can help you to integrate, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent can provide support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued Voice over IP devices to the newest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist you to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally named CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to create a an advanced IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can provide support with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving QoS, setting up SIP gateways, deploying ISR routers with CUBE internetworking support, and creating UCS server failover and Cisco SRST solutions for high availability. For more details on Progent's offerings for Cisco's IP voice and video technology, see Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Engineering Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM), formerly branded CallManager, functions as the center of Cisco's communications and collaboration portfolio. Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) offer a borderless IP-PBX solution by integrating tightly with unified messaging apps like Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Cisco Contact Center Express (Unified CCX or CCX) for building a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's CCIE-certified Cisco Unified CM experts can help with any aspect of Unified Communications Manager setup and debugging in areas such as integrating Voice over IP phones and desktop video IP phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN support, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE support, designing Cisco UCS server failover systems for high availability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting Expertise
Progent’s experienced Cisco network security consulting professionals offer expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting support including infrastructure design, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-class products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer advanced protection, performance, and high availability for network environments of any size. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed platform, eliminating possible OS-specific security holes.

Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's CISM and CISSP-certified security consultants can provide a range of cost-effective network security Inventory service bundles and security assessment service bundles created to offer businesses of all sizes a chance to receive an objective look at the strength of their security environment. The packages vary from low-cost external security scan and internal network security scan packages for small and midsize companies up to a high-end network security assessment solution for corporations who have to comply with security levels demanded by state regulators or by vendors. For each security assessment package, engineers with high-level security credentials evaluate and summarize scanned data and make suggestions for efficient remediation.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk consultants and CUBE configuration experts can help organizations of any size to plan, deploy, manage, debug and enhance Cisco's SIP infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers cost-effective remote or on-premises support to assist you to migrate smoothly to a productive communications network that offers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications experts can help you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media applications like Skype for Business Server and Lync for connectivity to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Products
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that incorporates a wide range of wireless products and technologies and provides the same protection, scalability, and manageability you demand from a wired environment. Progent can assist you to achieve seamless integration between Cisco wireless technology and wireless products from third-party vendors to give your business the features you need as well as the most protected, reliable, and cost-effective WLAN system possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security consultants can show you how to build protection into your WLAN and your business operations.

Simplified Management Solutions for Cisco-based Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management consultants can provide assistance with Cisco's management utilities along with a range of specialized third-party applications to create a complete network management solution in order to keep your environment operating smoothly, conserve expensive resources, protect your information, revive rapidly from hardware failure or malicious attacks, and enable you to expand or repurpose network components intelligently and economically as your business evolves.

For more information about Progent's consulting support for Cisco connectivity and security solutions, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.