New IT Technology and Progent IT Solutions

Cisco announced innovative solutions targeted especially for small company IT networks and designed to deliver outstanding security and collaboration for an affordable price. Solutions unveiled by Cisco were Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest version of the Cisco SBCS.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a purpose-built antispam and antivirus security device that essentially eradicates email attacks right out of the box. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical desktop network-attached storage (NAS) appliances that provide security for important data and enable workers to share files effortlessly. Cisco's SBCS Version 1.4, a full collaboration and communications solution that seamlessly connects offices, employees, and clients anywhere. Cisco's latest version features the first wireless small-footprint IP phone with Bluetooth support. To view Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Introduces Security and Collaboration Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker
The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance protects small organizations by providing extensive protection against junk mail, malware as well as other email threats to secure your system and business data while improve productivity. Since the device blocks spam right out of the box and updates on its own, it does away with the cost and hassle required for initial configuration and ongoing and administration. By eliminating spam, Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance helps the performance of network connections, servers, and computers. The Spam Blocker represents an end-to-end solution email attacks by including hardware, software, continuous updates, and product support in a single bundle.

Notable benefits of the Spam and Virus Blocker include:

• Efficiency: Assists to make sure that email-borne threats and spam are caught while business messages are delivered.
• Ongoing automatic patches: Constant communication with SenderBase security, an online library of email security threats, ensures that the Spam & Virus Blocker incorporates the latest patches to protect your corporate email.
• Simple setup and use: User-friendly web-based setup wizards permit you to configure the Spam Blocker in almost any network in 15 minutes, delivering immediate security for your business.
• Effortless management: As soon as you installs the the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you benefit from junk mail and virus filtering with no additional hassle required from your network support group.

Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems offer the dependable protection and advanced backup capabilities that your company requires, at a price small companies can handle. The NSS3000 accommodates up to 4 terabytes of data and up to 15 concurrent users per chassis, provides the ideal solution for storing, accessing, and backing up your mission-critical business information. Unlike less sophisticated network-attached storage systems, the Cisco NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art backup, encryption, user validation, and high availability your organization needs.

The NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage Chassis supports any approved hard drive. The product provides a range of capabilities in a desktop-size form factor designed for small organizations. The Small Business NSS3000 Storage Chassis also gives you the versatility to deploy the system without any connected drives, to modify the product at any time, and to chain multiple Cisco NAS chassis with one another, providing a platform that can smoothly expand with your business.

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

• Intelligently back up vital data from every desktop and server on your network
• Provide centralized preservation and sharing of key information
• Employ Continuous Data Protection to back up automatically each revision of every file saved by employees, allowing your business to recover data easily
• Store and archive video from your company's video surveillance cameras

Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and complete collaboration and communications solution that permits small companies to connect telecommuters, mobile workers and employees in disparate sites to improve their ability to interact with customers and teammates. In the latest release, the aggressively priced system has improved wireless capabilities such as the first wireless desktop IP phone with built-in Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G wireless IP device, which allows companies to grow easily by installing handsets in locations where conventional phone lines or network wiring is not present or cannot easily be added.

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

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router to help protect the company's network and provide workers secure access to the Internet and key corporate information remotely or locally
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to permit stakeholders to streamline the configuration and deployment of solutions designed custom for certain businesses

How Progent's Certified Engineers Can Help You to Benefit from Cisco Technology
Progent's Cisco certified consultants and CCIE accredited network engineers can assist you to assess new Cisco products to determine their business value for your environment, integrate Cisco solutions to enhance the protection and efficiency of your network, and provide tech support for Cisco products both onsite and online to keep your network operating dependably. Progent's consultants can provide a variety of low-cost services to enhance the availability, protection, speed, and manageability of your IT network:

Immediate Online Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Engineers
Progent is the premier provider of easy, immediate, and cost-effective assistance from CCIE engineers. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are highly-qualified network experts who are awarded this top-level certification only as a result of strenuous examination by Cisco. CCIEs can handle the most sophisticated issues surrounding IT network architecture, integration, repair, and service. Progent’s CCIE consultants work intimately with Cisco engineers in identifying issues with Cisco's IOS software and developing fixes or obtaining patches to correct problems. Progent your company quick access to a CCIE by telephone so that you are able to receive urgent assistance for complex network problems that are impacting business efficiency but are beyond the scope of your local network support resources. Progent's CCIE consulting experts can access your environment using state-of-the-art remote support technology in order to provide fast and affordable diagnosis and remediation of critical infrastructure difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can assist your business to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco IP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent can provide expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices to the newest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help you to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Unified CM, formerly branded CallManager, or with Unified CM Express to create a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can deliver support with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, resolving QoS, setting up SIP trunking, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE internetworking support, and designing Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco SRST systems for survivability. For additional information on Progent's technical support for Cisco's collaboration technology, refer to Cisco VoIP and Unified Communications Consulting Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally named CallManager, acts as the heart of Cisco's collaboration solution. CUCM and Unified Communications Manager Express offer an advanced IP-PBX solution by integrating with apps that include Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Cisco Unity Express for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for building an advanced customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM and CallManager experts can help with any aspect of CUCM configuration and debugging in areas that include integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and video IP phones, designing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN support, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE networking support, creating UCS server failover solutions for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting Expertise
Progent’s experienced Cisco network security consulting professionals offer expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services covering infrastructure design, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and safe access services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-class products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of security, high throughput, and excellent availability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built operating system, eliminating 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 security Inventory bundles and security evaluation service bundles created to give businesses of all sizes a chance to receive an impartial look at the effectiveness of their security profile. The packages vary from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal network security scan packages for small companies up to a high-end network security evaluation package for institutions who need comply with security standards demanded by state regulators or by vendors. For each security assessment bundle, consultants with high-level security accreditations analyze and summarize collected information and provide recommendations for effective improvements.

SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Expertise
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP trunk experts and Cisco CUBE configuration experts can assist you to design, integrate, maintain, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connectivity solutions and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected SIP trunks. Progent offers affordable remote or onsite support to help you to migrate efficiently to a modern communications network that delivers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications consultants 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 or Lync for connectivity to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Infrastructure
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or certified CCNP to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a wide range of wireless products and technologies and offers the identical security, scalability, and manageability you demand from your wired environment. Progent can assist you to achieve seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless products and wireless technology from third-party vendors to give your company the functionality you require plus the most protected, dependable, and cost-effective WLAN solution possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security consultants can advise you about how to build security into your wireless network and your business operations.

Automated Management Solutions for Cisco-powered Small Business Networks
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management consultants offer assistance with Cisco's management utilities along with a range of specialized third-party applications to create a comprehensive network management strategy to keep your environment operating reliably, fully utilize limited resources, guard your data, revive quickly from device breakdown or deliberate assaults, and enable you to expand or reassign valuable resources sensibly and economically as your company evolves.

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