New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

Cisco unveiled new solutions intended especially for small company networks and designed to provide exceptional protection and collaboration for a budget-friendly price. Products introduced by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest version of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam Blocker appliance is a purpose-built spam, virus, and phishing filter security product that virtually eliminates email-based attacks with no set up. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint NAS devices that provide protection for valuable information and enable workers to access shared information effortlessly. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4, a complete sharing and communications system that seamlessly connects sites, employees, and clients however dispersed. The current release incorporates the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP phone with Bluetooth support. To view Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Announces Networking and Security Products for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
The Spam Blocker protects small companies by offering extensive defense against spam, viruses and worms as well as other email-borne attacks to guard your system and business information while enhance productivity. Since the device blocks spam and viruses with minimal set up and stays current on its own, it eliminates the cost and time with setup and ongoing and management. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker helps the throughput of networks, application servers, and computers. The Spam Blocker appliance represents an end-to-end solution email-born threats by featuring hardware, software, ongoing patches, and technical assistance in a single package.

Key benefits of Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance are:

• Efficiency: Helps to ensure that email attacks and junk mail are caught while business email is delivered.
• Ongoing automatic updates: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase security, a network database of email security threats, makes sure that the Spam & Virus Blocker incorporates the most current patches to guard your business email.
• Simple installation and operation: User-friendly web-based installation tools permit you to configure the Spam Blocker in practically any environment in 15 minutes, delivering instant security for your network.
• Effortless management: As soon as you installs the the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you get spam and virus filtering with no additional effort demanded of your IT group.

NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems offer the robust security and comprehensive backup capabilities that your business needs, at a price small organizations can afford. The Cisco NSS3000 supports as much as to four TB of data and up to 15 concurrent clients on each chassis, provides the ideal answer for storing, sharing, and archiving your mission-critical business information. As distinct from less advanced NAS alternatives, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art backup, encryption, client validation, and fault tolerance your organization requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis supports any certified drive. The product offers a range of capabilities in a desktop-size form factor engineered specifically for small businesses. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also offers your company the versatility to deploy the system without any connected hard drives, to modify it at any time, and to link multiple chassis together, offering a platform that can continually grow with your company.

Your business can use the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or 3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Intelligently back up vital information from each workstation and server on your network
• Offer unified preservation and sharing of important files
• Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy unattended each revision of each file archived by employees, allowing you to recover data with ease
• Record and archive video from your surveillance system

Cisco SBCS
The Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive sharing and communications solution that enables small businesses to interconnect telecommuters, mobile workers and office workers in disparate sites to enhance their options to interact with clients and colleagues. In the latest release, the affordable solution offers enhanced wireless capabilities including the first wireless desktop VoIP handset with built-in Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G VoIP phone, which allows businesses to grow easily by adding handsets in locations where traditional telephone lines or network wiring is not present or cannot easily be added.

Other new components of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System 1.4 version are:

• The Cisco 520 Secure Router to help protect the company's infrastructure and provide employees safe connectivity to the Internet and important business information wherever they are
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to permit stakeholders to simplify the setup and deployment of solutions designed specifically for individual businesses

How Progent's Cisco-certified Engineers Can Help Your Company to Get the Most Out of Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco-qualified consultants and CCIE network engineers can assist you to evaluate new Cisco products to understand their appropriateness for your environment, set up Cisco solutions to enhance the protection and efficiency of your information network, and provide tech support for Cisco devices both in person and remotely to keep your network operating smoothly. Progent's consultants offer a range of cost-effective services to enhance the dependability, safety, performance, and manageability of a small business information network:

Quick Online Access to Cisco CCIE Certified Network Engineers
Progent is the leading source of convenient, immediate, and low-cost support from registered CCIE consultants. CCIEs are highly-qualified network experts who are awarded this prestigious classification only through intense testing by Cisco. CCIEs can tackle the most complicated problems associated with IT network architecture, deployment, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Progent's CCIE consultants work intimately with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing issues with Cisco's IOS platform and developing fixes or obtaining patches to resolve anomalies. Progent offers quick contact with a CCIE by phone so that you are able to receive instant assistance for complex network problems that are undermining business efficiency but are outside the scope of your usual IT support resources. Progent's CCIE consulting experts can access your network using state-of-the-art off-site connectivity tools in order to deliver fast and cost-effective analysis and repair of critical network problems.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco-certified IP phone and video IP phone consultants can assist your business to integrate, maintain, and debug Cisco IP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices to the latest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help you 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 build 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 trunking, installing ISR routers with CUBE internetworking support, and creating Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for high availability. For more details on Progent's offerings for Cisco's IP voice and video technology, refer to Cisco Voice over IP and Unified Communications Consulting Help.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), previously branded CallManager, operates as the center of Cisco's communications and collaboration solution. Unified Communications Manager and Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) provide a location-independent IP-PBX by integrating with unified messaging apps such as Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Express for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for creating a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's CCIE-certified Cisco Unified CM experts can assist with any facet of CUCM support and debugging in areas that include integrating Cisco VoIP phones and desktop video IP phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN calling, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, creating Cisco UCS server clustering solutions for survivability, and integration with Exchange Server and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent's certified Cisco IT security consulting professionals provide high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall engineering support including infrastructure design, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and secure access services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-grade products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of protection, performance, and high availability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed operating system, eliminating possible OS-specific security holes.

Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISA-certified security engineers can provide a range of cost-effective network security Inventory service bundles and network security assessment bundles created to give businesses of all sizes an opportunity to get an independent opinion about the strength of their protection environment. The packages range from ultra-affordable external network security scan and internal network security scan packages for small and midsize companies up to a high-level security evaluation solution for enterprises who need comply with security levels demanded by government agencies or by vendors. For every security assessment package, engineers with top security credentials evaluate and summarize collected data and make recommendations for effective remediation.

SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Integration Consulting
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP trunk experts and CUBE integration consultants can assist your business to design, integrate, maintain, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connectivity solutions and Cisco's CUBE-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers affordable online or on-premises expertise to help businesses to move efficiently to a modern unified communications network that offers fast return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications experts can help you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's rich media applications such as Skype for Business Server and Lync for access to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can provide a certified CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that incorporates a broad array of wireless appliances and technologies and offers the identical protection, expandability, and manageability you expect from a wired network. Progent can assist you to implement seamless integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless technology from third-party vendors to offer your business the functionality you need as well as the most protected, reliable, and cost-effective WLAN system available. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can show you how to build security into your WLAN and your company's operations.

Simplified Administration Tools for Cisco-powered IT Networks
Progent's Cisco-Certified network consultants offer help with Cisco's network management tools along with a selection of specialized third-party applications to create a comprehensive network management strategy in order to keep your network operating smoothly, fully utilize expensive resources, protect your data, revive rapidly from hardware breakdown or deliberate assaults, and allow you to expand or repurpose network resources sensibly and affordably as your business evolves.

To find out more details concerning Progent's consulting expertise for Cisco connectivity and security technology, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.