New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

Cisco unveiled innovative products targeted especially for small company IT networks and designed to provide exceptional security and collaboration at an affordable cost. Solutions announced by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest version of the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a purpose-built spam, virus, and phishing filter security device that essentially eliminates email attacks right out of the box. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical desktop network-attached storage (NAS) appliances that offer security for valuable information and allow workers to share files effortlessly. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications solution that seamlessly connects offices, employees, and clients however dispersed. The current version incorporates the debut of a cordless small-footprint IP phone with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To read Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Introduces Networking and Security Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
The Spam Blocker safeguards small organizations by providing powerful defense against junk mail, viruses and phishing as well as other email attacks to secure your network and corporate data and simultaneously enhance productivity. Since the device blocks spam and viruses right out of the box and stays current on its own, it eliminates the expense and hassle required for setup and continuing and administration. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker helps the performance of network connections, application servers, and computers. The Spam Blocker appliance represents a comprehensive solution email-born attacks by including a physical appliance, intelligent software, ongoing patches, and product assistance in a single package.

Key features of the Spam Blocker are:

• Efficiency: Helps to make sure that email threats and spam are caught while legitimate email is accepted.
• Ongoing automatic patches: Constant interaction with SenderBase services, a network library of email safety threats, makes sure that your Cisco Spam Blocker incorporates the most current updates to safequard your corporate email.
• Simple setup and use: User-friendly browser-based setup tools permit you to configure Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance in practically any network in minutes, providing instant security for your company.
• Effortless management: From the moment you installs the the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you get junk mail and malware protection with minimal additional effort required of your network support group.

NSS2000 and 3000
The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 provide the dependable protection and advanced backup features that your company needs, at a cost small organizations can handle. The Cisco NSS3000 supports as much as to four terabytes of data and as many as 15 simultaneous users on each chassis, provides the ideal answer for holding, accessing, and backing up your mission-critical business information. Unlike entry-level network-attached storage systems, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 provides the advanced backup, cryptography, user authentication, and high uptime your business requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage enclosure supports any approved hard disk drive. The chassis offers a range of features in a desktop form factor designed specifically for small businesses. The Small Business NSS3000 Storage enclosure also gives your company the flexibility to deploy the system without any attached drives, to modify the product at any time, and to chain several chassis together, offering a platform that can smoothly expand with your business.

You can use the Cisco NSS2000 or 3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Automatically back up important information from each workstation and server in your business
• Provide centralized preservation and sharing of key information
• Employ Continuous Data Protection to copy automatically each version of every file saved by employees, permitting your business to recover information quickly
• Store and save digital video from your company's surveillance cameras

Smart Business Communications System
The Cisco SBCS Version 1.4 is a simple and complete sharing and communications solution that enables small organizations to connect telecommuters, mobile workers and employees in disparate locations to improve their options to communicate with clients and colleagues. In the new release, the aggressively priced system offers enhanced wireless capabilities such as the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP phone with Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G wireless IP device, which allows businesses to expand easily by installing handsets in places where traditional phone lines or network wiring is not present or cannot easily be run.

Additional new pieces of the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) 1.4 version include:

• The Cisco 520 Secure Router product to help guard a small business infrastructure and give employees secure access to the Internet and key corporate data from inside or outside the office
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to enable partners to streamline the configuration and deployment of solutions created specifically for certain businesses

How Progent's Cisco-certified Professionals Can Help Your Company to Deploy Cisco Technology
Progent's Cisco consultants and Cisco CCIE networking experts can help you to evaluate new Cisco technologies to determine their usefulness for your environment, deploy Cisco solutions to improve the protection and performance of your information network, and maintain Cisco products both onsite and remotely to keep your IT network running smoothly. Progent's consulting experts can provide a variety of affordable support services to improve the availability, safety, efficiency, and maintainability of your IT network:

Quick Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Network Engineers
Progent delivers convenient, immediate, and cost-effective help from CCIE engineers. CCIEs are highly-qualified networking gurus who earn this top-level certification only after exhaustive testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to resolve even the most challenging issues associated with IT network architecture, deployment, repair, and support. Progent’s CCIE experts work closely with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS platform and finding fixes or obtaining software updates to correct problems. Progent can provide immediate contact with a CCIE by telephone so that you are able to get urgent help for complex network problems that are impacting business productivity but are beyond the expertise of your usual network support resources. Progent's CCIE support professionals can access your environment via advanced remote support technology to provide timely and cost-effective diagnosis and remediation of urgent network difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco-certified IP phone and video IP phone experts can assist you to integrate, maintain, and debug Cisco VoIP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent offers support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices to the newest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also help your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, previously named CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to build a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent can provide support with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP trunking, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE internetworking capability, and designing UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) solutions for survivability. For more details on Progent's technical support for Cisco's Unified Communications technology, read Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Professional Support.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM), formerly branded CallManager, functions as the center of Cisco's collaboration platform. CUCM and Unified CM Express (CME) provide a modern IP-PBX by integrating with unified messaging applications such as Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for building an advanced customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM consultants can assist with any aspect of CUCM support and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating VoIP phones and desktop video IP phones, designing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN support, deploying ISR routers with CUBE networking support, designing UCS server failover solutions for high availability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent’s experienced Cisco network security consultants provide expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall engineering services including architecture, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home businesses to scalable gigabit products, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of security, performance, and high reliability for network environments of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built operating system, minimizing common OS-specific security holes.

Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's GIAC, CISA and CISM-certified security engineers can provide a variety of cost-effective security Inventory service bundles and security assessment service packages created to give organizations of all sizes a chance to get a professional opinion about the quality of their protection profile. The packages range from low-cost external security scan and internal security scan options for small and midsize companies up to a high-level network security evaluation solution for enterprises who need meet security levels required by state regulators or by vendors. For every security assessment package, engineers with high-level security accreditations analyze and report on scanned information and make recommendations for effective remediation.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Consulting
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP trunk experts and Cisco CUBE integration experts can help you to plan, integrate, maintain, debug and enhance Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based IP PSTN trunks. Progent can provide cost-effective online or onsite support to help you to migrate efficiently to a modern communications network that delivers accelerated ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications consultants can help you to establish connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media applications such as Skype for Business or Lync for access to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Solutions
Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or certified CCNP to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that incorporates a broad range of wireless products and technologies and offers the same protection, expandability, and ease of management you demand from your wired network. Progent can help you to implement transparent interoperability between Cisco wireless technology and wireless technology from other vendors to give your company the features you need plus the most protected, reliable, and cost-effective WLAN system available. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security specialists can show you how to design protection into your wireless network and into your company's processes.

Automated Management Solutions for Cisco-based Small Business Networks
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management engineers can provide assistance with Cisco's management utilities along with a variety of specialized third-party applications to build a complete network management strategy to keep your network running smoothly, conserve limited resources, guard your data, revive quickly from hardware failure or malicious assaults, and allow you to expand or reassign valuable components intelligently and affordably as your business grows.

To find out more details about Progent's support services for Cisco networking and security products, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.