New IT Technology and Progent IT Solutions

Cisco announced innovative solutions intended specifically for small company networks and engineered to provide a high degree of protection and connectivity at an affordable cost. Products unveiled by Cisco were Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 release of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a purpose-built spam, virus, and phishing filter security device that virtually eradicates email-based attacks as shipped. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint NAS appliances that provide protection for important information and enable workers to exchange information effortlessly. The Cisco SBCS Version 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications system that easily connects sites, employees, and clients anywhere. Cisco's latest version features the debut of a cordless desktop IP handset with Bluetooth capabilities. To read Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Introduces Networking Solutions for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
The Spam and Virus Blocker safeguards small companies by providing powerful protection against spam, viruses and worms as well as other email-borne attacks to guard your network and business data while improve efficiency. Since the appliance stops spam right out of the box and stays current on its own, it eliminates the cost and time associated setup and continuing and administration. By filtering out spam, Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance helps the performance of network connections, servers, and computers. The Spam Blocker is an end-to-end solution email-born threats by featuring hardware, software, ongoing patches, and product support in a single bundle.

Key benefits of Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker include:

• Precision: Assists to make sure that email threats and junk mail are caught while business email is delivered.
• Continuous self-installed updates: Constant communication with SenderBase services, a network database of email safety risks, ensures that your Cisco Spam Blocker appliance incorporates the latest updates to protect your business email.
• Simple installation and operation: User-friendly browser-based installation tools allow you to configure Cisco's Spam Blocker in practically any network in minutes, providing instant security for your network.
• Effortless management: From the moment you installs the the Spam Blocker, you get spam and virus filtering with minimal extra effort demanded of your IT staff.

Cisco NSS2000 and 3000
The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 provide the robust protection and advanced backup features that your business requires, at a price small organizations can handle. The Small Business NSS3000 accommodates up to 4 TB of data and up to 15 concurrent clients per enclosure, provides the ideal answer for storing, accessing, and backing up your mission-critical business data. Unlike less sophisticated network-attached storage alternatives, the Small Business NSS3000 delivers the advanced backup, cryptography, client authentication, and high availability your company needs.

The NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure supports any certified disk. The chassis offers a wealth of capabilities in a desktop form factor engineered specifically for small businesses. The NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also gives you the versatility to deploy the product without any connected disks, to reconfigure the product at any time, and to chain several NAS chassis with one another, offering a platform that can smoothly grow with your business.

Your business can utilize the Cisco NSS2000 or 3000 to:

• Automatically copy vital information from every PC and application server on your network
• Provide unified storage and distribution of important information
• Run Continuous Data Protection to copy unattended every version of every file archived by workers, allowing your company to restore files with ease
• Record and save video from your video security system

Smart Business Communications System
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and complete sharing and communications system that permits small businesses to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and employees in separate sites to enhance their options to collaborate with clients and teammates. In the latest release, the affordable solution offers improved wireless capabilities including the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP handset with Bluetooth, the SPA525G wireless IP phone, which allows companies to expand easily by adding phones in places where conventional telephone lines or network cables are not present or cannot easily be added.

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

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router to help protect a small business network and give employees secure access to the Internet and important business information wherever they are
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to allow stakeholders to simplify the setup and deployment of solutions created specifically for certain businesses

How Progent's Consulting Professionals Can Help You to Deploy Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco certified consultants and CCIE network engineers can help your company to evaluate the latest Cisco products to understand their usefulness for your environment, install Cisco appliances to enhance the protection and performance of your information network, and troubleshoot Cisco products both in person and online to keep your network running smoothly. Progent's IT professionals can provide a range of affordable services to enhance the reliability, protection, performance, and maintainability of your information network:

Quick Access to Cisco CCIE Network Engineers
Progent is the leading source of convenient, immediate, and economical access to CCIE support professionals. CCIEs are recognized network gurus who are awarded this prestigious accreditation only through thorough testing by Cisco. CCIEs can handle the most complex problems encountered with network infrastructure planning, setup, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Progent's CCIE experts work closely with Cisco engineers in analyzing issues with Cisco's IOS software and devising fixes or acquiring software updates to resolve problems. Progent your company quick access to a CCIE by telephone so you can get instant help for tough network troubles that are impacting worker productivity but are outside the expertise of your local IT support providers. Progent's CCIE consulting experts can access your environment via advanced remote connectivity tools in order to deliver timely and cost-effective diagnosis and repair of critical network difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco-certified IP phone and video IP phone consultants can help your business to integrate, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued Voice over IP devices to the latest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly branded CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to create a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent can provide support with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving QoS, configuring SIP trunking, deploying ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and designing Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony systems for survivability. For more information about Progent's technical support for Cisco's Unified Communications technology, see Cisco VoIP and Unified Communications Engineering Support.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally branded CallManager, operates as the foundation of Cisco's communications and collaboration portfolio. CUCM and Unified CM Express provide a borderless IP-PBX by integrating tightly with unified messaging applications like Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Cisco Unity Connection for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for creating a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's CCIE-certified CUCM and CallManager consultants can help with any facet of Unified Communications Manager setup and debugging in areas that include integrating Voice over IP phones and video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN calling, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, creating Cisco UCS server failover systems for survivability, and integration with Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent's experienced Cisco IT security consultants offer high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall engineering services including architecture, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable gigabit products, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer advanced security, performance, and high availability for network environments of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built operating system, eliminating common OS-specific security gaps.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC, CISA and CISM-certified security consultants can deliver a range of cost-effective network security Inventory service bundles and security evaluation service packages created to give organizations of all sizes an opportunity to receive a professional look at the quality of their protection environment. The packages vary from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal network security scan options for small businesses up to a high-level network security evaluation solution for institutions who have to comply with security levels required by government regulators or by customers. For every security assessment bundle, consultants with high-level security credentials evaluate and summarize collected information and provide recommendations for efficient remediation.

SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP infrastructure consultants and CUBE configuration experts can assist you to plan, integrate, manage, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers cost-effective online or on-premises expertise to help companies to migrate efficiently to an advanced communications environment that offers accelerated ROI. Progent's certified Microsoft collaboration experts can help you to set up connections between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms like Skype for Business or Lync for connectivity to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Infrastructure
Progent can give you access to a certified CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a wide range of wireless appliances and technologies and offers the same protection, expandability, and manageability you expect from your wired network. Progent can help you to implement seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless technology and wireless technology from other suppliers to give your business the features you need as well as the most protected, reliable, and cost-effective wireless networking solution possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can show you how to design security into your WLAN and your business processes.

Simplified Management Solutions for Cisco-based IT Networks
Progent's Cisco-Certified network management engineers can provide help with Cisco's management technology along with a range of powerful third-party products to build a comprehensive management automation solution to keep your environment operating reliably, conserve expensive resources, protect your information, recover rapidly from hardware failure or malicious assaults, and enable you to add or repurpose network components sensibly and affordably as your business evolves.

To learn more information about Progent's consulting expertise for Cisco networking and security products, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.