Cisco Premier Certified Consulting and Support Cisco introduced innovative solutions targeted specifically for small business IT networks and designed to deliver outstanding security and collaboration for a budget-friendly cost. Products introduced by Cisco included the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest version of Cisco's SBCS.

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a purpose-built antispam and antivirus security device that essentially eliminates email-based attacks as shipped. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint network-attached storage devices that offer protection for valuable data and enable workers to access shared files effortlessly. The Cisco SBCS Version 1.4, a complete sharing and communications solution that easily connects offices, workers, and clients anywhere. The current version features the industry's first cordless small-footprint Internet Protocol (IP) handset with Bluetooth wireless support. To see Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Announces Networking Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Consulting The Spam and Virus Blocker safeguards small companies by providing powerful protection against spam, viruses and worms as well as other email-borne threats to guard your network and corporate information and simultaneously improve productivity. Because the appliance blocks spam and viruses right out of the box and updates automatically, it does away with the expense and time associated initial configuration and continuing and management. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker helps the performance of network connections, application servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance represents an end-to-end solution email-born attacks by featuring a physical appliance, software, continuous patches, and product support in a unified package.

Notable features of Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance include:

  • Efficiency: Assists to ensure that email threats and spam are intercepted and legitimate email is accepted.
  • Continuous automatic updates: Constant communication with SenderBase security, an online database of email safety threats, makes sure that the Cisco Spam Blocker incorporates the latest updates to safequard your corporate email.
  • Easy installation and operation: Easy-to-use browser-based installation wizards permit you to configure the Spam and Virus Blocker in almost any environment within 15 minutes, delivering instant security for your company.
  • Effortless management: As soon as your company deploys the Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance, you get junk mail and virus protection with minimal additional effort required from your network support staff.

Cisco NSS2000 and 3000
Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems Consulting The Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 provide the dependable security and comprehensive backup features that your company requires, at a price small organizations can handle. The Small Business NSS3000 accommodates up to 4 terabytes of data and as many as 15 concurrent users on each chassis, offering the ideal answer for holding, sharing, and archiving your vital corporate information. As distinct from ordinary network-attached storage (NAS) systems, the NSS3000 provides the advanced backup, encryption, client authentication, and high uptime your organization requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis supports any approved hard disk. The enclosure provides a wealth of features in a desktop-size footprint designed for small companies. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also gives your company the versatility to configure the product without any attached hard disk drives, to reconfigure the product at any time, and to chain several Cisco NAS chassis with one another, providing a platform that can smoothly expand with your company.

You can use the Small Business NSS2000 or 3000 to:

  • Automatically copy important data from each PC and server in your business
  • Offer centralized storage and distribution of important information
  • Employ Continuous Data Protection to copy unattended each version of each file saved by workers, permitting you to recover data easily
  • Record and archive digital video from your company's surveillance cameras

Smart Business Communications System
Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Consulting Services The Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and complete sharing and communications system that enables small businesses to interconnect telecommuters, mobile workers and office workers in separate sites to enhance their options to communicate with clients and colleagues. In the latest release, the affordable solution offers enhanced wireless support such as the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP handset with built-in Bluetooth technology, the SPA525G IP device, which allows companies to expand easily by deploying phones in places where conventional telephone wires or Ethernet cables are missing or cannot easily be added.

Additional new components of the Cisco SBCS 1.4 version include:

  • The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router to help protect the company's network and provide workers safe connectivity to the Internet and important corporate data wherever they are
  • Cisco's Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to allow stakeholders to simplify the setup and installation of solutions designed custom for certain companies

How Progent's Certified Engineers Can Assist Your Business to Incorporate Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco-qualified support professionals and CCIE accredited engineers can help you to evaluate new Cisco products to understand their usefulness for your environment, integrate Cisco solutions to enhance the security and efficiency of your information network, and troubleshoot Cisco devices both onsite and remotely to keep your network operating dependably. Progent's IT professionals can provide a variety of cost-effective technical services to enhance the reliability, protection, performance, and maintainability of a small business information network:

Quick Online Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Network Engineers
Progent offers convenient, quick, and affordable access to CCIE engineers. CCIEs are recognized network gurus who are awarded this prestigious classification only as a result of exhaustive examination by Cisco. CCIEs can tackle even the most complicated issues surrounding IT network architecture, deployment, repair, and support. Progent’s CCIE experts cooperate intimately with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing issues with Cisco's IOS platform and devising workarounds or acquiring patches to resolve problems. Progent offers fast access to a CCIE by telephone so you are able to get urgent assistance for tough network problems that are affecting worker efficiency but are outside the scope of your local network service providers. Progent's CCIE consulting professionals can link to your environment via state-of-the-art off-site connectivity technology to provide timely and affordable diagnosis and remediation of critical network difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone experts can help you to integrate, maintain, and debug 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 VoIP devices to the newest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally named CallManager, or with Unified CM Express (CME) to create a an advanced IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can deliver support with all aspects of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP trunking, deploying Cisco ISR routers with CUBE internetworking support, and designing UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for survivability. For more details on Progent's services for Cisco's collaboration solutions, go to Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Professional Services.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM), previously branded CallManager, functions as the core of Cisco's communications and collaboration platform. CUCM and Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) provide a modern IP-PBX solution by integrating with unified messaging apps that include Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for creating a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM and CallManager experts can help with any facet of Unified Communications Manager configuration and debugging in areas such as integrating VoIP phones and video IP phones, designing dial plans, setting up SIP connections and PSTN support, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE networking support, designing UCS server clustering solutions for high availability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Support
Progent’s certified Cisco network security consulting professionals provide high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall engineering support covering architecture, configuration, and support 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, sophisticated attack protection, and safe access services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home businesses to scalable enterprise-level appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide advanced security, high throughput, and high availability for IT systems of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built operating system, minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps.

Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISA-certified security engineers can provide a range of cost-effective security Inventory service bundles and network security evaluation bundles designed to give organizations of all sizes an opportunity to receive an independent opinion about the effectiveness of their security environment. The packages vary from low-cost external network security scan and internal network security scan options for small companies up to a high-end security evaluation solution for enterprises who need meet security levels required by state regulators or by vendors. For every security assessment package, engineers with high-level security accreditations analyze and summarize collected information and provide suggestions for effective improvements.

Cisco SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP infrastructure experts and CUBE configuration experts can help your business to plan, deploy, maintain, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected SIP trunks. Progent can provide affordable remote or onsite support to assist you to move smoothly to an advanced communications ecosystem that offers accelerated ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can assist you to establish connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media platforms like Skype for Business Server or Lync Server for connectivity to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Products
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that incorporates a broad array of wireless devices and technologies and offers the same protection, expandability, and manageability you demand from a wired network. Progent can assist you to achieve transparent interoperability between Cisco wireless technology and wireless devices and software from other vendors to offer your business the features you require plus the most protected, reliable, and cost-effective wireless networking system possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security consultants can advise you about how to design protection into your WLAN and your business operations.

Automated Administration Solutions for Cisco-based IT Networks
Progent's Cisco-Certified network engineers can provide help with Cisco's management tools along with a selection of powerful third-party applications to build a comprehensive network management solution in order to keep your network operating reliably, conserve expensive resources, guard your data, revive quickly from hardware breakdown or malicious assaults, and enable you to expand or reassign network components intelligently and affordably as your company grows.

To learn more details concerning Progent's consulting support for Cisco connectivity and communications technology, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.