Cisco Certified Consulting and Support Cisco introduced innovative products targeted specifically for small business networks and designed to deliver high levels of protection and collaboration for a budget-friendly cost. Solutions introduced by Cisco included the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest release of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a purpose-built email security product that virtually eradicates email-based attacks right out of the box. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical desktop network-attached storage (NAS) devices that offer protection for valuable data and enable workers to exchange information effortlessly. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4, a full collaboration and communications solution that easily interconnects sites, workers, and clients however dispersed. Cisco's current version features the debut of a cordless small-footprint VoIP handset with Bluetooth capabilities. To see Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Announces Networking and Security Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker
Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Support Services The Spam Blocker appliance safeguards small companies by providing extensive defense against junk mail, viruses and phishing and other email-borne attacks to secure your network and corporate information while at the same time enhance efficiency. Because the appliance blocks spam and viruses right out of the box and updates on its own, it eliminates the expense and time required for initial configuration and ongoing and management. By filtering out spam, Cisco's Spam Blocker helps the performance of network connections, servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker represents a comprehensive solution email-born attacks by featuring hardware, software, continuous updates, and technical assistance in a single package.

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

  • Accuracy: Helps to ensure that email-borne threats and junk mail are intercepted and business messages are allowed through.
  • Continuous automatic updates: Non-stop communication with SenderBase services, a network library of email safety threats, makes sure that your Spam & Virus Blocker installs the most current patches to protect your corporate email.
  • Easy installation and use: Easy-to-use web-based installation wizards allow you to install the Spam Blocker appliance in almost any environment within minutes, delivering instant security for your business network.
  • Streamlined administration: As soon as your company deploys the the Spam Blocker, you get spam and malware protection with minimal extra effort demanded of your network support staff.

Cisco NSS2000 and 3000
Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems Consulting Services The NSS2000 and 3000 provide the dependable security and advanced data backup capabilities that your company needs, at a price small companies can afford. The Cisco NSS3000 supports as much as to four TB of data and as many as 15 concurrent clients on each chassis, provides the optimal answer for holding, sharing, and archiving your mission-critical corporate information. Unlike less advanced NAS systems, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the advanced backup, encryption, client authentication, and high availability your business needs.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage Chassis handles any certified hard drive. The enclosure provides a range of capabilities in a desktop form factor engineered for small companies. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also provides your company the versatility to configure the system without any attached disks, to modify the product easily, and to link several NAS chassis together, offering a solution that can smoothly grow with your business.

Your business can use the Cisco NSS2000 or NSS3000 Network Storage Systems to:

  • Automatically back up vital information from each PC and server in your organization
  • Offer unified storage and sharing of key files
  • Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy unattended each revision of every file archived by employees, permitting you to restore data easily
  • Record and save video from your surveillance cameras

Cisco Smart Business Communications System
Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems Support Services The Cisco SBCS Version 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive collaboration and communications solution that enables small organizations to connect telecommuters, on-the-road workers and employees in separate locations to improve their ability to collaborate with customers and teammates. In the new release, the affordable system has enhanced wireless support including the first wireless desktop IP handset with Bluetooth, the SPA525G VoIP phone, which enables companies to expand cost-effectively by adding phones in places where traditional telephone lines or network wiring is missing or cannot easily be run.

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

  • Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router to help protect a small business network and provide workers safe connectivity to the Internet and important business data any time, anywhere
  • The Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to enable stakeholders to simplify the configuration and installation of solutions designed custom for certain businesses

How Progent's Certified Experts Can Help You to Benefit from Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco support professionals and Cisco CCIE engineers can help you to assess new Cisco products to understand their usefulness for your environment, integrate Cisco appliances to improve the protection and efficiency of your network, and maintain Cisco devices both in person and online to keep your network operating smoothly. Progent's consulting experts offer a range of cost-effective technical services to enhance the dependability, protection, speed, and manageability of your company's information network:

Immediate Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Network Engineers
Progent is the leading source of easy, quick, and affordable help from CCIE engineers. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are recognized networking gurus who earn this prestigious classification only through strenuous examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to tackle even the most sophisticated problems surrounding network design, implementation, repair, and administration. Progent’s CCIE experts work intimately with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing issues with Cisco's IOS software and developing workarounds or obtaining patches to resolve problems. Progent can provide immediate contact with a CCIE by phone so that you are able to get instant assistance for complex network troubles that are undermining business efficiency but are outside the expertise of your usual IT service resources. Progent's CCIE support engineers can access your environment using advanced remote support technology to deliver fast and affordable diagnosis and repair of urgent network difficulties.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone consultants can assist your business to integrate, manage, and debug Cisco VoIP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent can provide support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP products to the latest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also help your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, originally named CallManager, or with Unified CM Express to create a an advanced IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent can deliver support with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving QoS, configuring SIP trunking, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and designing Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco SRST solutions for high availability. For more information concerning Progent's technical support for Cisco's collaboration solutions, go to Cisco Voice over IP and Unified Communications Professional Services.

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

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Support
Progent’s experienced Cisco IT security consulting professionals provide expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting services covering infrastructure design, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and safe access services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable gigabit products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide advanced security, performance, and high reliability for network environments of any size. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed platform, eliminating possible OS-specific security gaps.

Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISA, CISM and CISSP-premier security consultants can deliver a variety of budget-friendly security Inventory service bundles and network security evaluation service packages created to give businesses of any size an opportunity to receive an independent opinion about the effectiveness of their protection profile. The packages vary from low-cost external network security scan and internal network security scan packages for small businesses up to a high-end security assessment package for institutions who have to meet security levels required by government regulators or by customers. For every security assessment bundle, consultants with high-level security accreditations evaluate and summarize scanned data and provide recommendations for effective improvements.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Integration Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure experts and Cisco CUBE integration consultants can assist you to design, deploy, manage, troubleshoot and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connectivity solutions and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent can provide cost-effective remote or on-premises support to help businesses to move smoothly to an advanced unified communications environment that offers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can assist you to establish connections between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms like Skype for Business and Lync for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Products
Progent can give you access to a certified CCIE or certified CCNP to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that incorporates a broad array of wireless products and technologies and provides the identical security, expandability, and ease of management you demand from your wired network. Progent can help you to achieve seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless products and wireless products from third-party vendors to offer your company the features you require as well as the most secure, reliable, and economical WLAN system available. Progent's CISM and CISSP security consultants can advise you about how to design security into your WLAN and into your business processes.

Automated Administration Solutions for Cisco-based Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Certified network management consultants offer assistance with Cisco's network management utilities alongside a selection of specialized third-party applications to create a comprehensive management automation strategy to keep your environment running smoothly, conserve expensive resources, guard your data, recover rapidly from device breakdown or malicious attacks, and enable you to add or reassign valuable resources sensibly and economically as your company grows.

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