New IT Technology and Progent IT Solutions

Cisco introduced innovative products intended especially for small company networks and designed to deliver a high degree of protection and connectivity at a budget-friendly cost. Solutions announced by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 release of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam Blocker appliance is a dedicated antispam and antivirus security product that virtually eradicates email-based attacks as shipped. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable desktop network-attached storage devices that offer security for important information and allow employees to access shared information effortlessly. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4, a full sharing and communications system that seamlessly interconnects sites, workers, and customers however dispersed. The latest release features the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP handset with Bluetooth support. To see Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Introduces Connectivity and Collaboration Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
The Spam Blocker protects small companies by providing powerful protection against junk mail, viruses and other email attacks to secure your network and business data while improve productivity. Since the appliance stops spam and viruses with minimal set up and stays current automatically, it does away with the expense and hassle associated initial configuration and continuing and administration. By eliminating spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker helps the throughput of networks, servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance represents an end-to-end solution email-born attacks by including a physical appliance, intelligent software, continuous updates, and technical support in a single package.

Key benefits of Cisco's Spam Blocker are:

• Efficiency: Helps to ensure that email attacks and junk mail are caught and legitimate email is delivered.
• Ongoing automatic patches: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase security, an online library of email security risks, ensures that the Cisco Spam Blocker incorporates the latest updates to safequard your business email.
• Easy installation and use: Easy-to-use web-based setup tools permit you to configure the Spam Blocker appliance in practically any network within 15 minutes, delivering immediate protection for your company.
• Streamlined management: From the moment you installs the Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, you get junk mail and virus protection with no additional hassle required of your network support group.

Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems provide the dependable protection and advanced data backup features that your company requires, at a price small businesses can handle. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 supports as much as to four terabytes of data and as many as 15 concurrent users per enclosure, provides the ideal solution for storing, accessing, and backing up your mission-critical corporate information. As distinct from less sophisticated network-attached storage alternatives, the NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art archiving, cryptography, user validation, and high availability your business needs.

The Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure supports any approved disk. The product offers a range of features in a desktop system designed for small businesses. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also offers your company the versatility to deploy the system without any attached disks, to modify it at any time, and to chain several chassis with one another, offering a platform that can smoothly grow with your company.

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

• Intelligently copy important information from every desktop and application server in your company
• Provide unified preservation and distribution of key files
• Employ Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to back up automatically each version of every file saved by workers, permitting your business to restore files quickly
• Record and save video from your video security cameras

Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 is a simple and complete sharing and communications system that allows small businesses to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and office workers in separate sites to improve their ability to communicate with clients and teammates. In the latest release, the affordable system has enhanced wireless capabilities including the first wireless desktop IP handset with Bluetooth technology, the SPA525G VoIP phone, which allows businesses to expand cost-effectively by deploying handsets in places where traditional phone wires or Ethernet wiring is missing or cannot easily be added.

Other innovative pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System 1.4 version include:

• The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router to help guard the company's network and give employees secure access to the Internet and important corporate data any time, anywhere
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to allow stakeholders to streamline the configuration and installation of solutions created specifically for certain companies

How Progent's Cisco-certified Experts Can Assist You to Benefit from Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco certified support professionals and CCIE engineers can help your company to evaluate new Cisco technologies to determine their value for your IT system, integrate Cisco solutions to improve the security and efficiency of your information network, and troubleshoot Cisco products both in person and remotely to keep your IT network running dependably. Progent's consultants offer a range of affordable technical services to enhance the dependability, protection, performance, and manageability of your company's information system:

Immediate Online Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Engineers
Progent offers convenient, quick, and affordable assistance from Cisco CCIE engineers. CCIEs are elite network gurus who are awarded this prestigious accreditation only through exhaustive examination by Cisco. CCIEs can tackle even the most challenging problems associated with IT network architecture, integration, repair, and administration. Progent’s CCIE experts interact intimately with Cisco engineers in identifying issues with Cisco's IOS software and developing fixes or acquiring software updates to correct anomalies. Progent your company immediate access to a CCIE by telephone so you are able to receive urgent help for complex network troubles that are impacting business productivity but are beyond the scope of your usual IT service providers. Progent's CCIE support professionals can access your network via state-of-the-art off-site support technology to provide fast and cost-effective analysis and remediation of urgent infrastructure problems.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can assist your business to configure, manage, and debug Cisco IP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent offers support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP products to the newest media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist you to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, previously known as CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express to build a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can deliver support with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP trunking, installing ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and creating Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony solutions for high availability. For additional details about Progent's expertise for Cisco's collaboration technology, read Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Engineering Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly named CallManager, is the foundation of Cisco's communications and collaboration portfolio. CUCM and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) offer a location-independent IP-PBX solution by integrating closely with applications like Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Unity Connection for voicemail, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for building an advanced customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM and CallManager consultants can assist with any aspect of Unified Communications Manager configuration and debugging in areas such as integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop video phones, reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN calling, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE networking support, creating UCS server failover solutions for high availability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting Expertise
Progent’s experienced Cisco network security consulting professionals offer expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting support covering infrastructure design, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and safe access services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home businesses to modular enterprise-grade appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer advanced security, performance, and high reliability for IT systems of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built platform, eliminating possible OS-specific security gaps.

Network Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC, CISA and CISM-premier security engineers can deliver a variety of budget-friendly network security Inventory bundles and network security evaluation bundles designed to offer organizations of any size a chance to get an independent opinion about the quality of their security profile. The packages range from ultra-affordable external network security scan and internal security scan packages for small companies up to a high-end security assessment solution for corporations who have to comply with security levels required by government agencies or by customers. For every security assessment bundle, engineers with top security accreditations evaluate and report on collected information and provide suggestions for effective remediation.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure experts and Cisco CUBE integration consultants can help organizations of any size to design, integrate, maintain, troubleshoot and upgrade Cisco's SIP connectivity technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected SIP trunks. Progent offers affordable online or onsite expertise to help you to move efficiently to an advanced unified communications ecosystem that delivers accelerated ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can assist you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications like Skype for Business and Lync for connectivity to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Solutions
Progent can give you access to a certified CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that incorporates a broad range of wireless appliances and technologies and provides the same protection, scalability, and ease of management you expect from your wired network. Progent can assist you to implement transparent interoperability between Cisco wireless technology and wireless devices and software from other suppliers to offer your business the functionality you require as well as the most secure, reliable, and cost-effective WLAN system possible. Progent's CISA and ISSAP security professionals can show you how to design protection into your wireless network and into your company's operations.

Automated Management Solutions for Cisco-powered IT Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Certified network consultants can provide help with Cisco's network management technology alongside a range of specialized third-party applications to build a complete management automation strategy to keep your environment running reliably, conserve limited resources, protect your data, revive quickly from device breakdown or malicious assaults, and enable you to expand or reassign valuable resources sensibly and economically as your business grows.

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