Cisco Certified Help Cisco introduced innovative solutions targeted especially for small company IT networks and designed to provide exceptional levels of security and connectivity at a budget-friendly price. Products unveiled by Cisco included the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest release of the Cisco SBCS.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a dedicated antispam and antivirus security device that virtually eradicates email threats as shipped. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint network-attached storage (NAS) devices that offer protection for valuable data and allow workers to share information effortlessly. The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4, a full collaboration and communications system that easily interconnects sites, employees, and clients anywhere. Cisco's latest release incorporates the debut of a cordless small-footprint VoIP phone with Bluetooth wireless support. To see Cisco's press release, visit Cisco Unveils Networking Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
Cisco Spam Blocker Consulting and Support The Spam Blocker protects small organizations by providing powerful defense against junk mail, viruses and other email attacks to secure your system and business data while at the same time enhance productivity. Since the device stops spam with minimal set up and updates automatically, it eliminates the expense and time required for initial configuration and continuing and management. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance helps the performance of networks, application servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker is an end-to-end solution email threats by featuring hardware, intelligent software, continuous patches, and product assistance in a unified bundle.

Notable features of the Spam and Virus Blocker include:

  • Efficiency: Assists to ensure that email-borne attacks and spam are caught while business email is delivered.
  • Continuous automatic patches: Constant interaction with SenderBase security, a network library of email safety risks, ensures that the Cisco Spam Blocker appliance incorporates the most current patches to protect your corporate email.
  • Simple setup and use: User-friendly web-based setup tools allow you to configure the Spam Blocker in nearly any environment within minutes, delivering instant security for your business.
  • Effortless management: From the moment your company installs the the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you benefit from junk mail and malware filtering with no additional effort required of your IT staff.

Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems Help The NSS2000 and 3000 offer the dependable security and comprehensive data backup features that your company needs, at a price small companies can handle. The Cisco NSS3000 supports up to four TB of data and as many as 15 concurrent users per chassis, offering the ideal answer for holding, accessing, and backing up your vital business information. As distinct from entry-level network-attached storage alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the advanced archiving, cryptography, user validation, and high availability your organization requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis handles any certified hard drive. It provides a range of features in a desktop footprint engineered specifically for small companies. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also provides you the flexibility to deploy the system without any attached disks, to modify it easily, and to link multiple NAS chassis with one another, offering a platform that can continually expand with your business.

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

  • Intelligently copy important information from each PC and server in your organization
  • Provide centralized storage and distribution of key information
  • Employ Continuous Data Protection to back up automatically every revision of each file saved by employees, allowing your business to recover information easily
  • Record and archive video from your company's surveillance cameras

Cisco Smart Business Communications System
Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems Support The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4 is a simple and complete sharing and communications system that permits small organizations to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and office workers in separate locations to enhance their options to interact with customers and colleagues. In the new release, the aggressively priced system offers enhanced wireless features such as the industry's first wireless desktop IP handset with built-in Bluetooth technology, the Cisco SPA525G IP phone, which enables businesses to grow easily by installing handsets in locations where conventional phone wires or Ethernet wiring is missing or cannot easily be run.

Other innovative pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 are:

  • The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router to help protect a small business infrastructure and give employees safe connectivity to the Internet and important business data any time, anywhere
  • The Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to enable partners to simplify the setup and deployment of solutions designed custom for individual companies

How Progent's Consulting Engineers Can Help Your Company to Incorporate Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco-qualified support professionals and CCIE networking experts can assist you to assess new Cisco products to understand their usefulness for your environment, set up Cisco solutions to improve the security and efficiency of your information network, and maintain Cisco products both onsite and remotely to keep your network running dependably. Progent's IT professionals offer a range of low-cost services to improve the dependability, protection, performance, and manageability of a small business information system:

Quick Online Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Engineers
Progent delivers convenient, immediate, and economical help from CCIE support professionals. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are highly-qualified networking experts who earn this prestigious certification only through strenuous testing by Cisco. CCIEs can tackle the most complicated issues surrounding IT network planning, configuration, repair, and support. Progent’s CCIE consultants work closely with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing issues with Cisco's IOS platform and devising fixes or acquiring software updates to resolve problems. Progent your company quick contact with a CCIE by phone so you can receive instant help for tough network troubles that are affecting worker productivity but are outside the expertise of your local network service providers. Progent's CCIE support engineers can access your network via state-of-the-art off-site support tools in order to deliver timely and cost-effective analysis and remediation 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 your business to configure, manage, and debug Cisco IP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide expertise for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy VoIP products to the latest media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist you to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Unified CM, previously branded CallManager, or with Unified CM Express to build a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can deliver support with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving QoS, configuring SIP gateways, deploying ISR routers with CUBE internetworking capability, and designing Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco SRST solutions for survivability. For more details about Progent's technical support for Cisco's IP voice and video solutions, visit Cisco VoIP and Unified Communications Professional Help.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), originally branded CallManager, is the center of Cisco's communications and collaboration solution. Cisco Unified CM and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) offer a location-independent IP-PBX solution by integrating with unified messaging apps that include Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Connection for voicemail, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Contact Center Express (Unified CCX or CCX) for building an advanced customer contact center. Progent's CCIE-certified Cisco Unified CM consultants can help with any aspect of Unified CM configuration and debugging in areas that include integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN calling, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE networking support, creating UCS server clustering solutions for survivability, and integration with Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Support
Progent’s experienced Cisco IT security consulting professionals provide high-level PIX and ASA Firewall consulting support including architecture, integration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home offices to modular enterprise-level products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer advanced security, high throughput, and excellent reliability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built operating system, eliminating common OS-specific security holes.

Network Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISA-premier security engineers can deliver a range of cost-effective security Inventory service packages and security evaluation packages created to offer organizations of any size an opportunity to receive an impartial look at the strength of their protection profile. The packages range 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 enterprises who have to comply with security levels demanded by government agencies or by vendors. For every security assessment package, consultants with top security credentials analyze and report on collected data and make suggestions for effective remediation.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP trunk consultants and CUBE integration experts can assist your business to design, integrate, maintain, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent can provide affordable online or on-premises expertise to assist businesses to migrate smoothly to a modern unified communications environment that offers accelerated return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications consultants can help you to set up connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms like Skype for Business or Lync Server for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Products
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or certified CCNP to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that incorporates a broad array of wireless products and technologies and offers the same security, expandability, and manageability you demand from your wired network. Progent can help you to achieve seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless technology and wireless technology from other vendors to give your company the functionality you need plus the most secure, reliable, and economical WLAN solution possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can advise you about how to build protection into your wireless network and into your business processes.

Automated Administration Tools for Cisco-based IT Networks
Progent's Cisco-Certified network engineers can provide help with Cisco's management tools along with a selection of specialized third-party applications to create a complete network management strategy to keep your network operating reliably, conserve limited resources, protect your information, recover rapidly from hardware breakdown or deliberate assaults, and allow you to expand or repurpose valuable resources sensibly and economically as your business evolves.

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