New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

Cisco announced new solutions intended especially for small company networks and engineered to provide exceptional protection and collaboration for a budget-friendly price. Products unveiled by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 version of the Cisco SBCS.

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a dedicated antispam and antivirus security device that essentially eliminates email attacks right out of the box. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical desktop network-attached storage devices that provide security for valuable data and allow workers to exchange files easily. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4, a complete sharing and communications system that seamlessly connects sites, employees, and customers anywhere. The current release features the first cordless desktop IP phone with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To read Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Introduces Connectivity and Collaboration Products for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
The Spam Blocker safeguards small organizations by providing extensive defense against spam, viruses and phishing and other email attacks to guard your network and corporate information while improve efficiency. Because the device stops spam and viruses right out of the box and stays current automatically, it does away with the cost and time required for initial configuration and continuing and management. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker helps the performance of network connections, servers, and computers. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is an end-to-end solution email attacks by featuring hardware, intelligent software, ongoing patches, and technical assistance in a unified package.

Notable benefits of the Spam and Virus Blocker are:

• Accuracy: Helps to ensure that email attacks and spam are caught and business messages are accepted.
• Ongoing automatic updates: Constant interaction with SenderBase security, a network database of email safety threats, ensures that your Spam & Virus Blocker appliance installs the latest patches to safequard your business email.
• Easy installation and use: Easy-to-use browser-based installation wizards allow you to configure Cisco's Spam Blocker in nearly any environment in 15 minutes, providing instant security for your business network.
• Effortless management: As soon as your company installs the Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance, you get junk mail and virus protection with no additional effort required from your IT staff.

Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems provide the dependable security and advanced backup features that your business requires, at a cost small companies can afford. The NSS3000 accommodates as much as to four TB of data and up to 15 simultaneous clients on each chassis, offering the ideal solution for storing, accessing, and backing up your mission-critical corporate information. As distinct from less advanced network-attached storage alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art archiving, encryption, client validation, and high availability your company needs.

The Cisco NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage enclosure supports any approved drive. It provides a range of capabilities in a desktop footprint engineered specifically for small organizations. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also provides your company the versatility to deploy the system without any connected hard drives, to modify it easily, and to link multiple chassis with one another, providing a solution that can smoothly expand with your company.

Your company can utilize the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or 3000 to:

• Intelligently copy vital data from each workstation and application server in your organization
• Offer centralized preservation and distribution of important files
• Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to back up automatically each version of each file archived by employees, permitting you to recover information easily
• Record and save video from your video security system

Smart Business Communications System
The Cisco SBCS Version 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive sharing and communications solution that enables small businesses to connect at-home workers, mobile workers and office workers in disparate locations to improve their ability to interact with customers and colleagues. In the latest release, the aggressively priced system offers enhanced wireless features including the industry's first wireless desktop IP handset with built-in Bluetooth technology, the Cisco SPA525G VoIP device, which enables companies to expand easily by installing phones in places where traditional telephone lines or Ethernet wiring is missing or cannot conveniently be run.

Additional innovative pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 include:

• The Cisco 520 Secure Router product to help protect a small business network and give workers safe access to the Internet and key corporate information from either side of the firewall
• The Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to allow partners to streamline the setup and installation of solutions created custom for certain companies

How Progent's Consulting Experts Can Help Your Business to Deploy Cisco Technology
Progent's Cisco-qualified consultants and Cisco CCIE networking experts can help you to evaluate new Cisco technologies to determine their value for your IT system, deploy Cisco appliances to improve the protection and efficiency of your information network, and maintain Cisco devices both onsite and remotely to keep your network running smoothly. Progent's consultants offer a range of low-cost services to improve the reliability, safety, performance, and maintainability of your company's IT network:

Quick Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Network Engineers
Progent can provide convenient, immediate, and cost-effective support from CCIE engineers. CCIEs are recognized network gurus who earn this prestigious classification only after comprehensive examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to tackle even the most challenging issues associated with network design, configuration, troubleshooting, and management. Progent’s CCIE consultants interact closely with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing issues with Cisco's IOS platform and developing workarounds or acquiring patches to correct problems. Progent can provide fast access to a CCIE by telephone so that you can receive instant help for complex network troubles that are affecting worker productivity but are outside the scope of your usual IT support providers. Progent's CCIE support experts can link to your network via state-of-the-art remote connectivity tools in order to provide fast and affordable diagnosis and repair of urgent network difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified IP phone and video IP phone experts can assist your business to integrate, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco IP 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 latest media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist you to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly known as CallManager, or with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express to create a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent can provide expertise with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP gateways, deploying Cisco ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking capability, and creating Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony systems for high availability. For additional information on Progent's technical support for Cisco's collaboration solutions, see Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Engineering Services.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), previously branded CallManager, operates as the core of Cisco's collaboration solution. Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified CM Express (CME) provide an advanced IP-PBX by integrating with unified messaging apps that include Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for creating an advanced customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM consultants can help with any facet of Unified CM setup and debugging in areas that include integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop video phones, reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN support, installing ISR routers with CUBE networking support, designing UCS server clustering solutions for survivability, and integration with Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent’s experienced Cisco network security consulting professionals provide high-level PIX and ASA Firewall engineering services including infrastructure design, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack protection, and secure access services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer advanced protection, high throughput, and excellent reliability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed platform, minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps.

Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISA-certified security consultants can provide a range of budget-friendly network security Inventory bundles and security assessment service packages designed to offer businesses of any size a chance to get an independent look at the strength of their security environment. The packages vary from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal security scan packages for small businesses up to a high-level security evaluation package for enterprises who need meet security levels required by state agencies or by vendors. For every security inventory or evaluation bundle, engineers with high-level security accreditations evaluate and report on scanned information and provide suggestions for effective improvements.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and CUBE Configuration Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk consultants and CUBE configuration consultants can help organizations of any size to plan, deploy, manage, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP connectivity solutions and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers affordable online or on-premises expertise to help businesses to migrate efficiently to a modern unified communications network that delivers accelerated return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications consultants can help you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's rich media applications like Skype for Business Server and Lync Server for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Products
Progent can provide a certified CCIE or certified CCNP to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that integrates a wide array of wireless products and technologies and offers the same security, expandability, and ease of management you demand from your wired environment. Progent can help you to achieve seamless integration between Cisco wireless technology and wireless products from other suppliers to give your company the functionality you require as well as the most protected, dependable, and cost-effective WLAN system available. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can advise you about how to design security into your wireless network and into your business processes.

Automated Administration Solutions for Cisco-powered IT Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Certified network consultants offer help with Cisco's network management technology alongside a selection of powerful third-party applications to build a complete management automation strategy in order to keep your environment operating reliably, conserve expensive resources, guard your information, revive quickly from hardware failure or deliberate assaults, and allow you to expand or repurpose network components intelligently and affordably as your company grows.

To learn more details about Progent's consulting expertise for Cisco networking and communications solutions, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.