Cisco Premier Certified Consultants Cisco unveiled innovative products targeted especially for small company IT networks and engineered to deliver high levels of protection and connectivity for a budget-friendly cost. Solutions unveiled by Cisco included Cisco's 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 and Virus Blocker appliance is a purpose-built email security device that virtually eliminates email attacks with no set up. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical desktop network-attached storage devices that offer security for important data and allow employees to exchange files easily. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4, a full sharing and communications system that seamlessly connects sites, workers, and clients anywhere. Cisco's current version incorporates the industry's debut of a cordless small-footprint Internet Protocol (IP) phone with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To view Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Announces Connectivity and Collaboration Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker
Cisco Spam Blocker Consulting and Support The Spam Blocker safeguards small organizations by providing extensive protection against junk mail, viruses and other email attacks to secure your system and corporate data while improve efficiency. Because the product stops spam and viruses right out of the box and updates automatically, it does away with the cost and time associated setup and continuing and management. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker increases the throughput of network connections, servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker represents an end-to-end solution email-born attacks by including a physical appliance, intelligent software, continuous patches, and technical assistance in a single package.

Key features of the Spam and Virus Blocker are:

  • Accuracy: Assists to make sure that email-borne threats and junk mail are caught while legitimate messages are accepted.
  • Continuous self-installed patches: Constant communication with SenderBase services, a network library of email safety risks, makes sure that the Spam & Virus Blocker incorporates the latest patches to safequard your corporate email.
  • Easy setup and use: Easy-to-use browser-based installation wizards permit you to install the Spam Blocker in almost any environment within 15 minutes, providing instant protection for your business.
  • Effortless management: As soon as you deploys the the Spam and Virus Blocker, you benefit from spam and malware protection with no additional hassle demanded from your network support staff.

NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
NSS2000 and NSS3000 Consulting and Support The Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems offer the robust security and advanced backup features that your business needs, at a price small businesses can afford. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 supports as much as to four terabytes of data and as many as 15 concurrent clients on each enclosure, offering the optimal solution for storing, accessing, and archiving your mission-critical corporate data. As distinct from ordinary network-attached storage (NAS) alternatives, the NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art backup, cryptography, client validation, and high uptime your business needs.

The Cisco NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis supports any approved hard drive. The enclosure provides a range of capabilities in a desktop-size system designed for small organizations. The NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also offers your company the flexibility to deploy the system without any connected disks, to reconfigure the product at any time, and to link several Cisco NAS chassis with one another, providing a platform that can continually grow with your company.

Your company can utilize the NSS2000 or 3000 to:

  • Intelligently copy vital data from every PC and server in your business
  • Offer centralized preservation and distribution of key files
  • Employ Continuous Data Protection to back up unattended every revision of every file saved by workers, permitting your company to recover data easily
  • Store and archive digital video from your video surveillance cameras

Smart Business Communications System
Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Consultants The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and complete sharing and communications system that enables small organizations to interconnect telecommuters, mobile workers and office workers in disparate locations to enhance their ability to communicate with clients and teammates. In Release 1.4, the affordable system has enhanced wireless capabilities such as the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP phone with built-in Bluetooth, the SPA525G IP phone, which allows businesses to grow cost-effectively by deploying phones in places where traditional phone wires or network cables are missing or cannot easily be added.

Other innovative components of the Cisco SBCS 1.4 version are:

  • Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router product to help guard the company's infrastructure and give workers secure access to the Internet and important corporate information wherever they are
  • The Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to enable stakeholders to streamline the setup and installation of solutions created custom for individual companies

How Progent's Certified Engineers Can Assist Your Company to Benefit from Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco consultants and CCIE network engineers can help you to evaluate new Cisco technologies to understand their value for your IT system, integrate Cisco security and communication platforms to enhance the security and efficiency of your information network, and troubleshoot Cisco devices both onsite and remotely to keep your network operating smoothly. Progent's consulting experts offer a range of affordable services to improve the reliability, security, performance, and maintainability of your company's information system:

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Progent is the premier provider of convenient, immediate, and economical support from registered CCIE consultants. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are highly-qualified network gurus who earn this top-level accreditation only through intense testing by Cisco. CCIEs can handle the most complex problems encountered with network design, integration, repair, and support. Progent’s CCIE consultants cooperate intimately with Cisco engineers in identifying problems with Cisco's IOS platform and finding fixes or acquiring patches to resolve anomalies. Progent your company quick access to a CCIE by phone so that you are able to receive emergency help for tough network problems that are impacting business efficiency but are beyond the expertise of your ordinary network service resources. Progent's CCIE consulting engineers can link to your environment using state-of-the-art remote support tools to deliver timely and affordable diagnosis and remediation of urgent infrastructure problems.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can help you to configure, manage, and debug Cisco IP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide expertise for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP products to the newest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also help your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally known as CallManager, or with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to create a state-of-the-art IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can provide expertise with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving QoS, configuring SIP gateways, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE internetworking support, and designing Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for high availability. For more details on Progent's support for Cisco's collaboration solutions, go to Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Engineering Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally branded CallManager, is the foundation of Cisco's collaboration platform. Unified CM and Cisco Unified CM Express provide a borderless IP-PBX solution by integrating tightly with unified messaging applications that include Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Connection for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Cisco Contact Center Express (Unified CCX or CCX) for creating a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM consultants can assist with any facet of Unified CM setup and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop video phones, reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN calling, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE support, designing Cisco UCS server clustering systems for high availability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent’s certified Cisco IT security consultants offer high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting services including architecture, configuration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and safe access services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of protection, high throughput, and high reliability for IT systems of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed platform, eliminating possible OS-specific security holes.

Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISA, CISM and CISSP-premier security engineers can deliver a variety of cost-effective network security Inventory service bundles and network security assessment service bundles created to offer organizations of any size a chance to get an independent opinion about the effectiveness of their security environment. The packages range from low-cost external security scan and internal network security scan packages for small and midsize businesses up to a high-end network security assessment package for institutions who need meet security levels required by government agencies or by vendors. For each security assessment bundle, consultants with top security accreditations evaluate and summarize scanned information and make suggestions for effective improvements.

Cisco SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP trunk experts and CUBE configuration consultants can help your business to plan, integrate, maintain, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP connectivity solutions and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based SIP trunks. Progent can provide affordable remote or on-premises support to assist businesses to migrate smoothly to an advanced unified communications ecosystem that delivers accelerated return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration consultants can help you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media applications such as Skype for Business or Lync for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can provide a certified CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that integrates a broad array of wireless devices and technologies and offers the same protection, scalability, and ease of management you expect from your wired environment. Progent can help you to implement seamless integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless technology from third-party vendors to offer your company the features you need plus the most protected, dependable, and cost-effective WLAN system possible. Progent's CISA and ISSAP security consultants can advise you about how to design protection into your WLAN and into your company's operations.

Simplified Management Tools for Cisco-based IT Networks
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management engineers offer help with Cisco's management utilities alongside a selection of powerful third-party applications to build a comprehensive network management solution in order to keep your environment operating reliably, fully utilize limited resources, guard your information, revive rapidly from hardware failure or malicious attacks, and allow you to add or reassign network components intelligently and economically as your business evolves.

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