New IT Technology and Progent IT Solutions

Cisco introduced new solutions targeted specifically for small company IT networks and engineered to deliver exceptional security and collaboration at a budget-friendly cost. Solutions introduced by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest release of the Cisco SBCS.

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a dedicated spam, virus, and phishing filter security product that virtually eradicates email threats as shipped. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint network-attached storage devices that provide security for valuable information and allow workers to access shared files effortlessly. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4, a complete sharing and communications solution that seamlessly connects sites, employees, and customers anywhere. The latest release incorporates the first cordless desktop VoIP phone with Bluetooth wireless support. To see Cisco's press release, visit Cisco Unveils Connectivity and Collaboration Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
The Spam Blocker appliance protects small businesses by providing extensive protection against spam, viruses and phishing and other email-borne attacks to guard your system and business data while improve productivity. Because the device stops spam and viruses with minimal set up and stays current on its own, it eliminates the cost and hassle associated setup and continuing and administration. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance increases the throughput of network connections, application servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker appliance represents a comprehensive solution email-born threats by including a physical appliance, software, continuous updates, and product assistance in a single package.

Notable benefits of the Spam Blocker include:

• Precision: Assists to ensure that email threats and spam are intercepted and business messages are allowed through.
• Ongoing self-installed updates: Non-stop communication with SenderBase security, a network library of email security risks, makes sure that the Spam & Virus Blocker appliance incorporates the latest updates to guard your business email.
• Simple setup and use: User-friendly web-based installation tools allow you to install the Spam and Virus Blocker in nearly any environment in minutes, delivering immediate security for your network.
• Streamlined administration: From the moment you deploys the the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you get spam and malware filtering with minimal additional hassle required from your network support group.

Small Business NSS2000 and 3000
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 provide the dependable security and comprehensive backup capabilities that your company needs, at a price small businesses can afford. The Small Business NSS3000 supports as much as to four TB of data and as many as 15 simultaneous clients on each chassis, provides the ideal answer for storing, sharing, and archiving your vital corporate information. As distinct from less sophisticated network-attached storage systems, the NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art archiving, encryption, client validation, and high availability your organization requires.

The Cisco NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage enclosure supports any certified drive. The chassis provides a range of features in a desktop system engineered specifically for small organizations. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also offers your business the flexibility to deploy the system without any attached hard drives, to reconfigure the product easily, and to chain multiple chassis together, offering a platform that can smoothly expand with your business.

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

• Automatically copy vital data from each desktop and server in your business
• Offer unified preservation and sharing of key files
• Run Continuous Data Protection to back up automatically each revision of each file archived by workers, permitting your company to restore files with ease
• Store and archive video from your video security cameras

Cisco SBCS
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4 is a simple and complete sharing and communications system that enables small businesses to interconnect telecommuters, mobile workers and employees in separate locations to enhance their options to collaborate with clients and teammates. In the new release, the aggressively priced system has improved wireless capabilities including the first wireless desktop VoIP phone with built-in Bluetooth technology, the SPA525G wireless IP device, which enables companies to expand easily by deploying handsets in locations where traditional telephone lines or Ethernet wiring is missing or cannot conveniently be run.

Additional new components of the Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 include:

• Cisco's 520 Secure Router to help guard a small business infrastructure and provide employees safe connectivity to the Internet and key business data any time, anywhere
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to permit partners to simplify the configuration and installation of solutions created custom for individual businesses

How Progent's Certified Engineers Can Assist Your Company to Incorporate Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco support professionals and CCIE networking experts can help you to evaluate the latest Cisco technologies to understand their business value for your environment, set up Cisco solutions to enhance the protection and efficiency of your information network, and provide tech support for Cisco products both in person and remotely to keep your network running dependably. Progent's IT professionals can provide a range of cost-effective technical services to improve the availability, protection, performance, and manageability of a small business information network:

Immediate Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Engineers
Progent delivers easy, quick, and cost-effective help from CCIE Certified consultants. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are recognized networking gurus who are awarded this prestigious certification only as a result of strenuous examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to resolve even the most challenging problems encountered with network architecture, deployment, troubleshooting, and administration. Progent's CCIE professionals work closely with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS platform and devising workarounds or acquiring patches to correct problems. Progent can provide fast access to a CCIE by telephone so you can get instant assistance for complex network troubles that are affecting worker productivity but are beyond the expertise of your usual IT service providers. Progent's CCIE support engineers can link to your environment via advanced off-site connectivity technology in order to deliver fast and cost-effective diagnosis and repair of critical network difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can assist your business to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy VoIP devices to the newest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, originally known as CallManager, or with Unified CM Express to create a an advanced IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can provide expertise with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, solving QoS, setting up SIP trunking, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE internetworking support, and creating Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco SRST solutions for survivability. For more information about Progent's expertise for Cisco's Unified Communications solutions, refer to Cisco Voice over IP and Unified Communications Engineering Services.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), previously known as CallManager, functions as the foundation of Cisco's collaboration portfolio. CUCM and Cisco Unified CM Express (CME) provide a borderless IP-PBX by integrating with applications like Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Unity Connection for voicemail, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for building an advanced customer contact center. Progent's CCIE-certified CUCM and CallManager experts can help with any facet of Unified CM configuration and troubleshooting in areas that include integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop video IP phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN calling, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE support, creating UCS server failover solutions for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting Expertise
Progent's experienced Cisco network security consultants offer high-level PIX and ASA Firewall consulting support covering infrastructure design, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewalls delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack protection, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home offices to modular gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide advanced protection, performance, and high reliability for IT systems of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed platform, minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps.

Network Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's GIAC, CISA and CISM-premier security consultants can deliver a variety of budget-friendly network security Inventory bundles and security assessment packages created to offer businesses of any size an opportunity to get an independent look at the quality of their security environment. The packages vary from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal security scan packages for small and midsize businesses up to a high-end network security evaluation package for corporations who have to comply with security levels demanded by state agencies or by vendors. For every security inventory or evaluation bundle, engineers with high-level security credentials evaluate and summarize collected information and make suggestions for efficient remediation.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Consulting
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP infrastructure experts and CUBE configuration experts can assist you to plan, integrate, manage, debug and enhance Cisco's SIP infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE-based IP PSTN trunks. Progent can provide affordable online or on-premises expertise to help businesses to migrate smoothly to a productive communications ecosystem that offers fast return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications experts can assist you to set up connections between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's rich media applications like Skype for Business Server or Lync for access to a SIP 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 strategy that integrates a wide array of wireless products and technologies and offers the same protection, scalability, and manageability you expect from your wired network. Progent can help you to achieve seamless integration between Cisco wireless technology and wireless products from third-party vendors to offer your business the functionality you require as well as the most protected, reliable, and cost-effective wireless networking solution available. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security consultants can show you how to build protection into your wireless network and your company's operations.

Automated Management Tools for Cisco-based IT Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Certified network management engineers can provide help with Cisco's network management technology alongside a selection of powerful third-party products to build a comprehensive network management strategy in order to keep your network running reliably, fully utilize limited resources, guard your data, recover quickly from hardware failure or deliberate attacks, and allow you to add or reassign network resources intelligently and affordably as your business grows.

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