New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

Cisco unveiled new solutions intended specifically for small business IT networks and designed to deliver exceptional security and connectivity for a budget-friendly price. Solutions unveiled by Cisco were Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest version of the SBCS.

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a dedicated email security product that virtually eliminates email threats right out of the box. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint NAS devices that provide protection for valuable information and enable employees to exchange information easily. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications solution that easily connects offices, workers, and customers however dispersed. The current version incorporates the first wireless small-footprint IP phone with Bluetooth wireless support. To read Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Introduces Networking Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker
The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance safeguards small organizations by providing extensive protection against spam, viruses and other email-borne threats to guard your system and corporate data and simultaneously enhance productivity. Because the device blocks spam right out of the box and stays current automatically, it avoids the cost and hassle required for initial configuration and continuing and administration. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance increases the throughput of networks, servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance represents an end-to-end defense against email threats by featuring a physical appliance, software, ongoing patches, and technical assistance in a single package.

Notable benefits of the Spam Blocker include:

• Efficiency: Assists to ensure that email threats and spam are intercepted and legitimate email is accepted.
• Ongoing automatic patches: Constant interaction with SenderBase security, a network database of email security threats, ensures that the Cisco Spam Blocker appliance incorporates the most current patches to safequard your business email.
• Simple installation and operation: Easy-to-use web-based installation tools permit you to configure Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance in nearly any environment within minutes, delivering instant security for your business network.
• Effortless administration: From the moment your company deploys the the Spam Blocker appliance, you benefit from spam and virus protection with minimal extra hassle required of your network support group.

NSS2000 and 3000
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems provide the robust protection and comprehensive data backup features that your business needs, at a price small organizations can afford. The Cisco NSS3000 supports up to 4 terabytes of data and as many as 15 concurrent clients on each enclosure, provides the ideal answer for storing, sharing, and archiving your vital corporate data. As distinct from less advanced network-attached storage alternatives, the NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art archiving, cryptography, client authentication, and fault tolerance your business requires.

The Cisco NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis handles any approved disk. It provides a wealth of features in a desktop-size form factor designed for small companies. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also offers your business the flexibility to deploy the system without any connected disks, to modify it easily, and to link several Cisco NAS chassis with one another, offering a solution that can continually grow with your business.

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

• Automatically copy vital information from every desktop and server in your company
• Provide unified storage and distribution of important information
• Employ Continuous Data Protection to copy automatically each revision of every file archived by employees, permitting your company to recover information quickly
• Record and archive video from your company's video security system

Cisco SBCS
The Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 is a simple and complete sharing and communications solution that permits small businesses to connect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and office workers in separate sites to enhance their ability to interact with customers and colleagues. In the latest release, the aggressively priced solution has enhanced wireless features such as the first wireless desktop VoIP handset with Bluetooth, the SPA525G IP device, which enables businesses to grow cost-effectively by deploying phones in places where traditional telephone wires or Ethernet wiring is missing or cannot conveniently be added.

Other new components of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 include:

• The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router product to help guard a small business network and give workers safe connectivity to the Internet and key business data from either side of the firewall
• The Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to allow partners to streamline the configuration and installation of solutions designed specifically for individual businesses

How Progent's Certified Engineers Can Help You to Benefit from Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco certified consultants and CCIE network engineers can assist you to evaluate the latest Cisco products to understand their business value for your environment, install Cisco solutions to improve the protection and performance of your information network, and maintain Cisco products both in person and remotely to keep your network running smoothly. Progent's IT professionals can provide a variety of affordable technical services to enhance the availability, security, performance, and maintainability of your company's information network:

Immediate Online Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Engineers
Progent can provide easy, immediate, and low-cost assistance from registered CCIE support professionals. CCIEs are recognized networking experts who are awarded this prestigious classification only after intense examination by Cisco. CCIEs can resolve even the most challenging problems surrounding network planning, implementation, repair, and maintenance. Progent's CCIE professionals work intimately with Cisco in-house staff in identifying problems with Cisco's IOS platform and devising fixes or obtaining patches to correct problems. Progent can provide quick contact with a CCIE by telephone so you are able to get instant help for complex network troubles that are undermining worker productivity but are outside the scope of your usual network service resources. Progent's CCIE support professionals can access your environment using advanced remote connectivity tools in order to provide timely and cost-effective diagnosis and remediation of critical network difficulties.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can help you to integrate, maintain, and debug Cisco IP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices to the latest media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist you to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, previously named CallManager, or with Unified CM Express (CME) to build a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can provide support with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP gateways, installing ISR routers with CUBE internetworking capability, and designing Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony solutions for high availability. For more details about Progent's engineering help for Cisco's IP voice and video technology, visit Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications Engineering Help.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), previously known as CallManager, functions as the center of Cisco's collaboration portfolio. Unified CM and Cisco Unified CM Express (CME) offer a modern IP-PBX by integrating tightly with unified messaging apps such as Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Connection for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for creating a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM experts can assist with any aspect of Unified CM setup and debugging in areas that include integrating Cisco VoIP phones and video IP phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN calling, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, designing Cisco UCS server clustering systems for high availability, and integration with Exchange Server and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Support
Progent's experienced Cisco IT security consulting professionals offer high-level PIX and ASA Firewall engineering services including architecture, configuration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-level products, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of security, high throughput, and high reliability for IT systems of any size. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built platform, eliminating common OS-specific security holes.

Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISA, CISM and CISSP-certified security consultants can provide a range of budget-friendly security Inventory packages and security evaluation packages created to give businesses of all sizes a chance to get an objective opinion about the quality of their security environment. These packages vary from low-cost external security scan and internal security scan packages for small companies up to a high-level security assessment package for enterprises who have to meet security levels required by state agencies or by vendors. For each security inventory or evaluation bundle, engineers with high-level security accreditations evaluate and summarize collected data and provide recommendations for efficient improvements.

SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP infrastructure experts and CUBE configuration consultants can assist your business to design, deploy, maintain, troubleshoot and upgrade Cisco's SIP connectivity solutions and Cisco's CUBE-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers affordable online or on-premises expertise to help businesses to migrate smoothly to a modern unified communications network that delivers fast return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications experts can help you to set up connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media platforms such as Skype for Business Server or Lync for connectivity to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Infrastructure
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a broad range of wireless devices and technologies and offers the identical security, scalability, and ease of management you expect from a wired environment. Progent can help you to implement transparent integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless technology from other suppliers to give your business the functionality you require as well as the most protected, dependable, and cost-effective wireless networking system possible. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security specialists can show you how to build security into your WLAN and your business operations.

Simplified Management Tools for Cisco-based IT Networks
Progent's Cisco-Certified network engineers can provide assistance with Cisco's network management utilities along with a selection of powerful third-party products to build a complete management automation strategy in order to keep your environment running smoothly, conserve expensive resources, guard your information, revive rapidly from device breakdown or malicious attacks, and enable you to add or repurpose valuable components intelligently and economically as your business evolves.

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